Error upgrading from 2.9.2 to 3.0.1

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I have my wordpress install under svn. I was on version 2.9.2. These were the steps I took:

  • saved a copy of my current wordpress directory
  • cd into my top level wordpress directory
  • svn up (just to make sure that I have the latest of 2.9)
  • svn sw http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.0.1/ . (upgrade)
  • run wp-admin/upgrade.php
  • got this error “Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_multisite() in (my install directory)/wordpress/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 505″

I looked around and some people think it’s a memory issue with PHP. So I tried the Memory Bump plugin and that didn’t work.

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Any ideas?

Update:
Found this post. Downloaded the latest 3.0 tar and overwrote my wp-settings.php with the one in the download.

Get different errors now. “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_load_image() (previously declared in /myinstalldir/wordpress/wp-includes/media.php:241) in /myinstalldir/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/image.php on line 168″

When I perform and svn status I see lots of ‘S’ flags (switched). Do I have to be concerned with that? wp-settings.php has that flag.

Update:
Here’s the output of the above svn sw from the root WordPress directory.

Update:
Output of svn st here. (Migrated the long listings to pastebin)

Update:
Output of svn info 

Path: .
URL: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.0.1
Repository Root: http://core.svn.wordpress.org
Repository UUID: 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
Revision: 15559
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: ryan
Last Changed Rev: 13165
Last Changed Date: 2010-02-15 09:38:59 -0800 (Mon, 15 Feb 2010)
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  1. I also used SVN before to update my wordpress installation. Up the working copied will get messed up very quickly with all the manual updates or files created by plugins.

    I would always recommend to use the update functionality of wordpress if you only want to step from one tagged version to another one.

    Although, I also use SVN for a local copy of wordpress to be able to quickly test my plugins in some old version real quick. I use Eclipse to switch from one to another tag and until now it worked out. But you’ll never know.

    UPDATE:
    I just tried to switch a clean checkout of 2.9.2 to 3.0.1 which looks like it is working, but I can only see the backend and not the frontend of the default single blog.

    UPDATE:
    What even the debug mode doesn’t tell me: As the default pre WP 3.0 theme is no longer available I just have to switch to the new “2010” theme. Now everything is working.

    So switching does work, but as I said before, your working copy usually get’s messed up with a lot of files that might cause some problems updating your WP copy with SVN switch.

  2. Sounds like you ran svn sw in a subdirectory, rather than the top-level WordPress directory. We may be able to help you recover, if you can’t just checkout a clean copy and move over your plugins and themes. The full output of svn st would be helpful, as well as svn info for any directory that may have been switched independent of its parent.