The update step is not very good at handling errors. I just an upgrade to 7.7 and a bunch of other modules that also were overdue, one of which was ctools.  It got an error trying to remove a directory. I had to back out of the update, do the ctools upgrade the old way, download, ftp, run update. It then took off and did the other pending ones as well.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:46 PM, James Rome <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jamesrome@gmail.com">jamesrome@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

  

    
  
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I have two sites that I upgraded from
          Drupal 7.4 to 7.7. One worked fine. But on the second one when
          I run update.php, it says</p>
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1 pending update<br>
          menu module</p>
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7001 - Rename &quot;Primary Links&quot; and
          &quot;Secondary Links&quot; to their Drupal 7 equivalents.</p>
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But when I run this update, it never
          finishes. It is stuck in the Run updates step. What do I do?</p>
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James A. Rome
URL: <a href="http://jamesrome.net" target="_blank">http://jamesrome.net</a>
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