Thread:Project:Support desk/Mediawiki mysql and importDump restore failures from 1.6.6 to 1.17.0./reply (3)

Indeed it turned out to be my problem, probably with permissions. I retried the install and importDump update from scratch, and it succeeded with the full restore!

However, not all problems are gone. The restored database appears to be missing its Searchindex. I have spent some time looking for a way to fix that, but updateSearchIndex only works on Recentchanges, and there appears to be no way to put all pages in the Recentchanges list. I'll post this as a separate thread.

Let me say at this point, the update was remarkably easy, once I got past whatever (probably permission) problem I had, and now I have citations, images and equations working! Thanks for the help!

For the solution regarding the Searchindex, see What is the easiest way to restore a Searchindex?