Upgrading Drupal

Hi

I am trying to upgrade a Drupal site from 5.7 to 5.23, and I'm having issues.

I'm doing this on a test duplicate of the live site, because this is a client site and I want to confirm the upgrade works fine before.

I have to say first though, that the genius that created the site 2 years ago before me, placed all contrib modules into the core modules folder. So before all this procedure, I first did a window-to-window comparison of the current core modules dir, and the modules dir of a new Drupal 5.23 folder. I copied out to a temp folder all the modules not present in the 5.23 fresh instance, assuming these are contrib modules. I am crossing my fingers it isn't the reason for the problem belowww........

Steps I am doing:
First, making a copy of the live site to test the upgrade steps:
-Copying current live drupal site (5.7) directory to a new directory. No problems.
-Copying current live drupal database in PHPMyAdmin, using Operations tab. No problems.
-Edited the sites/default/settings.php so it points to the newly copied database.
-The new copy of the live site works just fine. All functionality is there.

Now, beginning the upgrade:
-I backed up all contrib modules and the custom site theme to somewhere temporary. No problems.
-I logged in as administrator (first user). No problems.
-I turn off all the contrib modules. No problems.

I am using the Minnellie theme ver 6.19 and updated drupal 6.19. All is working well expect I cannot get the blocks to appear on the frontpage right sidebar. Left, footer and such work but not right sidebar. They will appear on any other page I set, but not on the frontpage. Small problem I know, but it worked before the update. Is this an issue or have I fouled things up some way?

i updated a drupal installation from 5 to 6. following necessary steps like disabling module and among others. things seems working find, except running the "cron" job will return an error:

[Fri Aug 20 17:22:34 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function boost_cache_expire() in G:\\WWWroot\\local-sunstar\\includes\\common.inc(1693): eval()'d code on line 9.

i even try enabling and disabling the module but still the error occur.

can anyone please share some idea how am i going to solve this issue?

I’m upgrading from 6.17 to 6.19

I don’t understand the following steps 6, 7, 8 in the upgrade.txt.

6. Remove all old files and directories from the Drupal installation directory.
7. Unpack the new files and directories into the Drupal installation directory.
8. Copy your backed up "files" and "sites" directories to the Drupal
installation directory. If other system files such as .htaccess or
robots.txt were customized, re-create the modifications in the new
versions of the files using the backups taken in step #1.

Hello.

My friend, an administrator, and I (poster, designer, etc.) are currently trying to set up a new Debian box, with its dpkg saying Drupal v6.17-2, on an used faster PowerPC. Currently http://aqfl.net is on an old PowerPC with old Debian (Kernel 2.6.30-2-powerpc #1 Sat Oct 3 22:43:22 UTC 2009 ppc GNU/Linux) and Drupal v4.7.4 (according to its changelog).

Hi all,

I'm new to Drupal, but have read quite a bit about it already and plan to continue reading some more. I know the basics of PHP and I get the general idea of Drupal, so that's not where my questions are :).