[rt-users] Upgrade History shows Upgrade Incomplete

[Kevin Falcone]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 04:23:15PM -0400, Nathan Baker wrote:
>    On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Kevin Falcone <[1]falcone at bestpractical.com> wrote:
> 
>      On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:33:20AM -0400, Nathan Baker wrote:
>      > Hello everyone,
>      >
>      > I just upgraded from 4.0.6 to 4.2.3 using the Debian packages. Â During the
>      > database upgrade, I received a few errors:
> 
>      I'm guessing you set up a new machine, installed request-tracker4 from
>      testing, restored your database and then did the upgrade?
> 
>    Actually this is on a system that was running 4.0.6 previously. Â I just did apt-get install
>    request-tracker4 (using the testing repository) and it upgraded all the packages.Â

I find that surprising, since you had a 4.2 only table.

>      You have an unclean database with 4.2 tables in it, and you're
>      tripping over some of the code we added to help RT handle that more
>      gracefully.
> 
>    What I'm wondering is how I can tell if the database is "unclean" or if it's okay. Â The
>    "upgrade history" section in System Configuration shows that it did "Upgrade from 4.0.19 to
>    4.2.3" once without errors, and then it did it again and it says "(Incomplete)". Â Maybe that
>    doesn't actually mean it tried twice though, I'm not sure.

oh.
You cannot safely upgrade RT like that.

Restore from a backup and upgrade cleanly.

I wouldn't trust a database that had run the upgrades twice.

-kevin
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