Upgrading Drupal

Ok, so I'm a bit nervous doing my first drupal upgrade on a live site. I followed the instructions on the upgrade screencast, as I detail below, and now i'm getting a series of errors as i try to run update.php.

1- I backed up both the database and all the files in the public_html folder.
2- Upgraded all of my current modules as per the upgrade status module. After that, I uninstalled the module.
3- I went to run update.php, but i got a white screen every time. As i read on the forums, this might be caused by a memory problem, so I unchecked all of my modules except for Views and CCK.
4- Still no luck running update.php so I erased all of the contributed modules (except for CCK and Views) from the sites/all/modules folder. I figured as i have them backed up, and i'm replacing them for their drupal 6 version, there would be no problem.
5- I changed my theme to bluemarine and tried to run update.php again and this time it worked, giving me the option to run the database upgrade script.
6- Now when i run the script, i get the problem: Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in .../includes/form.inc on line 342 . There is no way I can successfully run the script. Then i go to my modules directory, and i get the error

What would cause this error in the upgrade? I've disabled all but the core modules and the new install directory has only the current 6.10 files, plus some outside scripts. I'm not logged in as user 1 but fere_upgrade is set true in the settings file. Could anyone tell me which of these modules from the system table are not required? Is there another good place to look? Thanks for any advise.


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Hi,

I did an upgrade form 6.9 to 6.10 on my local test site.
The update .php worked fine but the status reports still says drupal is 6.9.
Other modules or themes are dispalyend as 6.10
In my system.modules file, I have define('VERSION', '6.10');

Any idea of what I did wrong ?

Thanks.

I have a magazine website where (un)registered users submit manuscripts for publication. We currently use the webform module to upload and view submissions results. Once we make our decision we send an email back to the author either rejecting or approving the manuscript. The webform is not an ideal method for this process because it gives limited information about the details and requires each file to be downloaded per view and a separate email client.

i have created a view and trying to create content for the content type.

When i crete content it gives the following warning. What is it all about.
Do i need to upgrade any module or it is having some another problem? Please help me.

I tried to use CVS to upgrade Drupal only to find out that it doesn't make things easier. I am rather annoyed by the CVS tagging that is used. For instance to update to the latest "stable" version of D5, how do you do that easily with CVS? There is no special tag for that, is there? You always have to find out what is the latest tag and use that.