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2/10/2015 9:24 AM
 
Geoffrey Giordano


Joined: 7/28/2008
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I'm getting the following error when doing the upgrade:

4:10 Minutes   |   29% ERROR occured - Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade.ConvertCoreNotificationTypeActionsFor700() at DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade.UpgradeToVersion700() at DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade.UpgradeApplication(String providerPath, Version version, Boolean writeFeedback)

Any thoughts on what's going on and how to get past this?

I rolled it back and tried again, just to see if it was something transient, it failed inthe same place both times.

There are no errors logged to the dnn_eventlog table.
 
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2/10/2015 9:33 AM
 
Richard Howells


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I'm sure it's not practical for the developers to test every combination of upgrade paths. I would make a guess that the problem is biting you as it goes to 7.00 (based on the name in the message).

I would try a separate upgrade to the last version before 7.00, and then another one on to 7.4.
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2/10/2015 10:20 AM
 
Geoffrey Giordano


Joined: 7/28/2008
Posts: 83

Thanks for the quick suggestion, I agree on the expectation.

I tried your suggestion (as it seemed pretty reasonable to me) and first upgraded to the last 6.x version first (06.02.09).  This went fine.

I then tried 07.04.00 again and it failed with the same error.  :-(

It would not surprise me that there is some knot or scar in my DNN configuration that is causing this issue, as my installation started w/DNN3.x.

Any idea where the log file is so that I can see what it was working on at the time of failure?  Perhaps that might provide a clue as to where things went south.  With that, hopefully, I can unwind / correct whatever is making the upgrader unhappy.

Other suggestions / advise are also welcome.

 
 
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2/10/2015 10:28 AM
 
Geoffrey Giordano


Joined: 7/28/2008
Posts: 83
I found the log.

Here is the failure in context:

02/10/2015 15:10:20 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Internals.Steps.BaseInstallationStep Upgrading Application to 7.0.0
02/10/2015 15:10:20 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade Start Application Upgrades: 7.0.0
02/10/2015 15:10:20 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade Start AddModuleDefinition:AdvancedSettings
02/10/2015 15:10:29 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade Start AddModuleControl:177
02/10/2015 15:10:29 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade Start AddAdminPages:Advanced Settings
02/10/2015 15:10:29 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade Start AddAdminPage:Advanced Settings
02/10/2015 15:10:30 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade Start AddPagePermission:View
02/10/2015 15:10:30 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade Start AddPagePermission:Edit
02/10/2015 15:10:30 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade Start AddPage:Advanced Settings
02/10/2015 15:10:32 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade Start AddModuleToPage:177
02/10/2015 15:10:34 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade End AddModuleToPage:177
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02/10/2015 15:11:52 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade Start AddPagePermission:Edit
02/10/2015 15:11:52 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade Start AddPage:Advanced Settings
02/10/2015 15:11:53 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade Start AddModuleToPage:177
02/10/2015 15:11:55 [INFO] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade End AddModuleToPage:177
02/10/2015 15:11:55 [ERROR] DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade.ConvertCoreNotificationTypeActionsFor700()
at DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade.UpgradeToVersion700()
at DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade.UpgradeApplication(String providerPath, Version version, Boolean writeFeedback)


I assume that means tab 177, in my system tab 177 is the Admin/LogViewer for one of my portals.
From the looks of this, it's working it's way through all the portals and fixing up the log viewer.
 
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2/10/2015 10:47 AM
 
Sebastian Leupold


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did you made sure, your application pool is running ASP.Net 4 in integrated mode, before triggering the upgrade to DNN 7?
Cheers from Germany,
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