Upgrading Drupal

Hey everyone - I am in the middle of the update that "won't complete" where I am upgrading an older site from 4.4.1 to 6.x. I have reached 4.7.11 and need to move the site to a new server because the current server only has PHP 4 and I will eventually need PHP 5.

I have run into a number of problems due to glitches at the current server. The last two updates ran slowly and eventually ended in an HTTP error 12152 (I think).........and in trying to install the event module I got the same error (it was the second update) and now I am getting the following error:

Unknown column 'e.event_start' in 'field list' query: select MIN(e.event_start) AS event_start, MAX(e.event_end) AS event_end FROM event e

Which I assume is telling me that the events table columns are incorrect.

Additionally I got, several hours ago this message:

in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument

This error was on the forum module, but I am not concerned because the forum module isn't enabled.

ARRGH! Sorry that was day three frustration.......and I still have to move this site and get to 5.22

Hi, everybody,

I thought I followed the update instructions from 6.16 to 6.17 correctly, but I don't know what I did wrong.

After I copied the sites/all folders back, I removed some of the modules that I downloaded that I don't use, but they are still showing in the list of available modules.

It seems that the teaser character limit also includes counting HTML code as characters. So if I have a picture in there right up front with al ink attatches to it that's like 150 characters. Anyway I can get rid of that and just have it count printed characters?

BONUS QUESTION! Any chance I can display picture smaller in the teaser and have them at another size when you actually open the post? Thanks!

--J.O'Ly.
www.breaking-down.com

I installed Drupal 6 using apt-get on Debian, because it seemed the easiest and most immediate way to have security patches applied (automatically).

I know there are security patches (I received e-mails about them on the Debian security mailing list):
DSA-2016-1 2010-03-13
DSA 1930-1 2009-11-07

... but in my Drupal web interface I still see a list of "required security updates" going back to Jan-2009.

okay I know for sure I installed the cross domain xml page into my root directory as described in the "read me" page, but I still get the following error message:
"crossdomain.xml file could not be found in your site's root directory [/opt/lampp/htdocs/crossdomain.xml] "
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Hi there Drupal friends,
I was upgrading from 6.16 to 6.17 when I got this error message: "Fatal error: Call to undefined function lock_acquire() in /home/musiknat/public_html/modules/locale/locale.module on line 357"
I cannot access the site at all. I have searched this forum and tried every suggested trick, I have started all over, threw 6.17 out and in with 6.16 again, even 6.15, but the site remains closed and I am getting fed up with this right now. Any ideas that I haven't already thought of?