I was having alot of difficulty getting my DNN 7 installation upgraded to DNN9. Initially I had SSL problems and portal alias problems, once those were resolved I was able to get my instance upgraded to DNN8 successfully. From there I proceded to upgrade to DNN9 and got many errors. I ended up dissabling all scheduled services and restarted the process all over again from 7 to 9. This time the upgrade did complete successfully but my persona bar functionality is not working. I can see the bar and the hover actions do work and display items but none of the items / functions open.

In inspect mode on chrome I see the following error message when clicking anything on the persona bar:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)

jquery.js?cdv=136:4 POST http://mysite/API/personaBar/UserSettings/UpdateUserSettings 500 (Internal Server Error)

send @ jquery.js?cdv=136:4

ajax @ jquery.js?cdv=136:4

rawCall @ sf.js?cdv=136:89

call @ sf.js?cdv=136:100

postsilence @ sf.js?cdv=136:112

save @ persistent.js?cdv=136:29

handleLoadPanel @ main.js?cdv=136:281

handleClickOnHoverMenuItem @ main.js?cdv=136:666

dispatch @ jquery.js?cdv=136:3

r.handle @ jquery.js?cdv=136:3

 

 

I've looked online for any post update fix instructions but have not found anything except this DNNTracker post which seems to be related

https://dnntracker.atlassian.net/browse/DNN-9054

I do not know if that is related, but I am getting 500 error on PersonaBar API

This is the when I click on Users >>> User Profile o or User Settings or Admin Logs >>> Log Settings .....As suggested I did re-install the Dnn.PersonaBar.Users_01.04.00_Install.zip module by unblocking downloaded upgrade package (in file properties)

This is the Fiddler result:

# Result Protocol Host URL Body Caching Content-Type Process Comments Custom
51 500 HTTP www.mywebsite.com /API/PersonaBar/Users/GetUserDetail?userId=134690 5,147 private application/json; charset=utf-8 chrome:4460

REQUEST HEADERS

GET http://www.mywebsite.com/API/PersonaB... HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mywebsite.com
Connection: keep-alive
TabId: 226
Accept: */*
RequestVerificationToken: 6BGN1TorPTQQ6j0r5H_u5EidC_RTmQpqgdylrJvod9CV51at84IfMjJbd0R36EbqwjJBW8ISzASx5Hzd0
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.186 Safari/537.36
Referer: http://www.mywebsite.com/DesktopModul...
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Cookie: .ASPXANONYMOUS=WjcxfST8NhCzxPd65vxPDV2S9Jt9TnhOVrYZTnKVTlUVYxwumaPye5Cav2hOR_rZUXldBCkYX7O-zHRXiakF9jWR6tejUIadziIoR_S0qzmCdHKq0; __utmz=88582091.1520952503.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); language=en-US; __RequestVerificationToken=45yUTiosCkTct4RxQB_bHJv68PZBusb_bpfk4ztjwr6eAy03CQAtjX3V_Va-6NsM57mxYQ2; __utma=88582091.1911355801.1520952503.1520977960.1521378391.3; __utmc=88582091; USERNAME_CHANGED=; authentication=DNN; .DOTNETNUKE=7C0D416643F94DABDCF3053B3F662669138921643E58C0970527D88EA03F4B9FEB444469DD4E8CB679D3AB7BE5935D1010A256D5B07539F5D52D48970702D268909E42B7; LastPageId=0:226; ASP.NET_SessionId=q15citwnahjirqlo52s4attm


RESPONSE HEADERS

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:44:35 GMT
Content-Length: 5147

{"Message":"An error has occurred.","ExceptionMessage":"The 'ObjectContent`1' type failed to serialize the response body for content type 'application/json; charset=utf-8'.","ExceptionType":"System.InvalidOperationException","StackTrace":null,"InnerException":{"Message":"An error has occurred.","ExceptionMessage":"Error getting value from 'EditProfileUrl' on 'Dnn.PersonaBar.Users.Components.Dto.UserDetailDto'.","ExceptionType":"Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializationException","StackTrace":" at Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization.DynamicValueProvider.GetValue(Object target)\r\n at Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization.JsonSerializerInternalWriter.CalculatePropertyValues(JsonWriter writer, Object value, JsonContainerContract contract, JsonProperty member, JsonProperty property, JsonContract& memberContract, Object

I tried running these scripts and although they all ran successfully, I still dont get a persona bar at all.  Chrome Developer Error: "http://www.tribalflight.com.au/API/personaBar/localization/gettable?culture=en-AU 404 (Not Found)" error