Hard to follow anything in this thread here (so I bounce to another thread) as it seems people here are having different issues. I suggest we stick to the same issue per thread please?

I installed 5.1.2 on 2 existing dev sites and got this error on both:

00:00:10.562 -   Installing Package File HTML_Community_05.01.03_Install:  Error!

One of the dev sites also displayed these 2 errors:

00:00:18.969 - Installing Optional Skins:

00:00:18.969 -   Installing Package File DNN-MinimalExtropySkin_01.00.04_Install:  Error!

00:00:19.594 - Installing Optional Containers:

00:00:19.594 -   Installing Package File DNN-MinimalExtropyContainer_01.00.04_Install:  Error!

The site that only reported one of the errors seems okay, but the second site had a corrupted skin and appeared to have lost the left side pane from all pages.  Bad since that is where the login module is.  I was able to revert to 5.1.1 and recover by simply copying the 5.1.1 update files over the site and deleting the last record in the Version table of the sql database.  Not sure this is the best way to recover, but appears to be adequate for now.

Seems to me that there are problems with this upgrade unlike any I have seen before.

I think that the skin / container is /was completely the default.  However, when I compare the \_default\Skins\MinimalExtropy\index ????.ascx of my site with the ones from a fresh 5.1.1 install, there are some differences.  Also, the html and css files have some differences.  The only mod I made to the skin was to add a background image to the ".logo pad" node in the css - this was so I could use a jpg image background that would fill the logo area without causing display issues when people select different widths from the buttons in the top right corner.  So the change was from:

.logo_pad{background:#FFF; margin: 0 19px 0 7px; padding:0 0 10px 10px;}

to

.logo_pad{background: #FFF;margin: 0 19px 0 7px;padding:0;height: 100px;background-image:url(images/CHAbackground.jpg);background-repeat: repeat-x;}

This change was made to the skin in _default portal as well as in the 0 portal.

Here is the error from the event log:

AssemblyVersion: 5.1.2
PortalID: -1
PortalName:
UserID: -1
UserName:
ActiveTabID: -1
ActiveTabName:
RawURL: /main/Install/Install.aspx?mode=upgrade
AbsoluteURL: /main/Install/Install.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer:
UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; Media Center PC 5.0; SLCC1)
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: eb32eb66-af41-4500-bfa3-0c9505b640fc
InnerException: Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.Packages' with unique index 'IX_Packages'. The statement has been terminated.
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError
StackTrace:
Message: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.Packages' with unique index 'IX_Packages'. The statement has been terminated. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(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.ExecuteScalar() at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteScalar(SqlConnection connection, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteScalar(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteScalar(String connectionString, String spName, Object[] parameterValues) at DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider.AddPackage(Int32 portalID, String name, String friendlyName, String description, String type, String version, String license, String manifest, String owner, String organization, String url, String email, String releaseNotes, Boolean isSystemPackage, Int32 CreatedByUserID) at DotNetNuke.Services.Installer.Packages.PackageController.AddPackage(PackageInfo package, Boolean includeDetail) at DotNetNuke.Services.Installer.Packages.PackageController.SavePackage(PackageInfo package) at DotNetNuke.Services.Upgrade.Upgrade.UpgradeApplication()
Source:
Server Name: P3NW3SH029