OK i had an issue with it saying there was no instance of an object error not allowing the website to be viewed so I backed off to 6.0 and re ran the update script to bring the site back to life and it worked.
Looking in event viewer I have these warnings and general exceptions during that update:
Warnings
: (TRUNCATED TO 500 CHARS): System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Invalid column name 'Level'. Invalid column name 'TabPath'. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection. (SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection. (SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataRe
General Exception:
RawURL: /Install/InstallWizard.aspx?__U=1342121533125
AbsoluteURL: /Install/InstallWizard.aspx
Message: System.Exception: Attempt made to run a Database Script - Possible Attack
I get like 1 every second... from google and bing bots accessing pages then after the update and recycled app they stop... I will pay close attention to this because it seems an error was happening like the following one every second until finally I had the updates done:
AssemblyVersion: 6.2.1
PortalID: -1
PortalName:
UserID: -1
UserName:
ActiveTabID: -1
ActiveTabName:
RawURL: /Community/Forum/tabid/316/forumid/1/postid/270/scope/posts/Default.aspx
AbsoluteURL: /Default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer:
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Ezooms/1.0; ezooms.bot@gmail.com)
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
InnerException: Invalid object name 'dnn_vw_Tabs'.
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.
StackTrace:
Message: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Invalid object name 'dnn_vw_Tabs'. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection. (SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection. (SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ConsumeMetaData() at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData() at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior, String method) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteReader(SqlConnection connection, SqlTransaction transaction, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters, SqlConnectionOwnership connectionOwnership) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteReader(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteReader(String connectionString, String spName, Object[] parameterValues) at DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider.GetTabPaths(Int32 portalId, String cultureCode) at DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalController.GetPortalDictionaryCallback(CacheItemArgs cacheItemArgs) at DotNetNuke.Common.Utilities.DataCache.GetCachedDataFromRuntimeCache(CacheItemArgs cacheItemArgs, CacheItemExpiredCallback cacheItemExpired)
I have now cleared the logs and am going to monitor it from here.