Upgrading Drupal

Today I upgraded from 4.6 to 4.7 and everything looked fine. However, when I logged out I discovered that all anonymous users were getting access denied errors. I came across a page that dealt with an error that initially looked like my problem:

http://drupal.org/node/12757 ("Access denied" but Permissions set properly)

However, I tried all the solutions suggested there without success.

Sorry if this has been asked before...

I have been using Drupal for some time, but have been stuck in a time warp. I have this week managed to install a new version (4.7) on a different server and now need to transfer all of my existing content into the new version. I see from the database structure that there are significant differences, so what's the best way to move the content from one server running 4.3 to another running 4.7?

I gave up on the upgrade, saved the mysql database that wasn't working, and installed 4.7. So now, 4.7 is running. Is there any possibility of me being able to drop the new (more or less empty) db, and importing my back up? At least they have the same number of tables. Even if they only need small fixes, I'll probably need help implementing them. This is a matter of over 2000 nodes...I really can't even think of redoing it all without needing to go into the hospital. help?

I was asked to upgrade a 4.6 site to 4.7, but it is not going cleanly. Part of the problem is that the site was mainly hacked together in the first place.

I'm thinking of just doing a clean 4.7 install and trying to transfer over the nodes, user data, profile data, etc.. Anyone have experience doing this, and if so, what tools did you use?

I don't mind going into the database and manually trying to move stuff over, but if there are existing tools to accomplish this, that would be a big bonus.

Thanks for any thoughts/tips.

This was posted elsewhere but I have moved it, as this is the more appropriate location, as pwolanin pointed out to me.

The database might not be perfect...but I have my user list, my basic content, etc. I don't know if the software is robust enough to handle our usage. I do need someone to walk me thru what I need to do...

Upgrade Disaster
allie - October 1, 2006 - 00:03
Project: Drupal
Version: 4.7.3
Component: other
Category: support
Priority: critical
Assigned: Unassigned
Status: active
Description

Our site crashed originally because of a server error (limited memory), and pretty much degraded over a period of two months, then was completely blank for a few days. Then, everything was wiped, corruption in the database was found and corrected, and now we have the basic appearance of being back--but we're not back.
We have an assortment of errors that just escalated.

Please help us get back on our feet?

Sample error messages follow:

Warning: Unknown column 'referer' in 'field list' query: INSERT INTO watchdog (uid, type, message, severity, link, location, referer, hostname, timestamp) VALUES (0, 'php', 'Table 'drupal1.node_revisions' doesn't exist\nquery: SELECT n.nid, n.vid, n.type, n.status, n.created, n.changed, n.comment, n.promote, n.moderate, n.sticky, r.timestamp AS revision_timestamp, r.title, r.body, r.teaser, r.log, r.format, u.uid, u.name, u.picture, u.data FROM node n INNER JOIN users u ON u.uid = n.uid INNER JOIN node_revisions r ON r.vid = n.vid WHERE n.nid = 20 in /home/novelspot/www/www/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.', 2, '', 'http://novelspot.net/about_us', 'http://novelspot.net/', '66.61.53.48', 1159657774) in /home/novelspot/www/www/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120

So far the drupal intalation has been great! brand new 4.7.3 install, some extra modules, but not much..

today i was trying to add the CCK module and saw the recommndation to run the update.php script. I said.. ok. let do it. clicked on it. it complaind about a couple of entries, but i did not think anything of it. so i went ahead and ran the script. it only had to update "system 110". so i let it.

then it spit out 15 pages of database update errors.

AAAAck.

i printed them to a pdf.