Thread:Project:Support desk/Database error after updating to 1.21.1/reply (2)

Hi Ciencia,

Thanks for the note! In fact, the first time I simply jumped to 1.21.1, but restored database and went back through the installation process incrementally to determine at which step the modification functionality broke, and it was at the transition from 1.20.6 to 1.21.1. This is a repeatable observation.

No, I did not overlay the old installation but untarred without modification into unpopulated directories (/mnt/sdb1/mediawiki-1.21.1, /mnt/sdb1/mediawiki-1.20.6, /mnt/sdb1/mediawiki/1-19.7, etc.) Once untarred, I moved over ONLY the LocalSettings.php file over and then ran the update.php script.

I don't have any extensions included in 1.21.1, however any extension data stored into the database would still be there. Previously I only had ".svn" in the extension folder (can't even recall putting it there.) I did not carry it into the later releases, however I note that the extension directory in 1.21.1 has a number of directories in it, which appear to be legitimate extensions installed by default.

David