I did eventually make it past this issue by physically making the modifications to the postgres database by hand. The evolution then completed and I was able to 'revert' any changes I had done and everything worked.
After this was all said and done - upgrading from 1.6.0 to 1.6.1, 'Just worked' without needing any special intervention from me. Joe On Sep 11, 4:14 pm, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com> wrote: > Which 1.5? > > Christian > > -- > Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com > Review Board -http://www.reviewboard.org > VMware, Inc. -http://www.vmware.com > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Joe Campbell > <joseph.r.campb...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > > > Was upgrading from base 1.5 release to 1.6 with a postgres DB. I did > > eventually get the evolutions to work by renaming existing columns and > > dropping at least one empty table. This allowed the evolutions to complete > > and I was able to get the site back up and running. > > > Joe > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Christian Hammond > > <chip...@chipx86.com>wrote: > > >> Hi Joe, > > >> Sorry, this got lost in a flood of e-mails. > > >> What version were you upgrading from? > > >> What type of database? > > >> Christian > > >> -- > >> Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com > >> Review Board -http://www.reviewboard.org > >> VMware, Inc. -http://www.vmware.com > > >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Joe Campbell <joseph.r.campb...@gmail.com > >> > wrote: > > >>> Running rb-site upgrade /var/www/cim-review after an easy_install -U > >>> ReviewBoard resulted in this: > > >>> Rebuilding directory structure > >>> Updating database. This may take a while. > >>> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.3-py2.6.egg/django/db/ > >>> __init__.py:60: DeprecationWarning: Short names for ENGINE in database > >>> configurations are deprecated. Prepend default.ENGINE with > >>> 'django.db.backends.' > >>> DeprecationWarning > >>> Creating tables ... > >>> There are unapplied evolutions for sessions. > >>> There are unapplied evolutions for accounts. > >>> There are unapplied evolutions for diffviewer. > >>> There are unapplied evolutions for reviews. > >>> There are unapplied evolutions for scmtools. > >>> Project signature has changed - an evolution is required > >>> Installing custom SQL ... > >>> Installing indexes ... > >>> No fixtures found. > >>> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pycrypto-2.3-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/ > >>> Crypto/Util/randpool.py:40: RandomPool_DeprecationWarning: This > >>> application uses RandomPool, which is BROKEN in older releases. See > >>>http://www.pycrypto.org/randpool-broken > >>> RandomPool_DeprecationWarning) > >>> Error: Error applying evolution: column "basedir" of relation > >>> "diffviewer_diffset" already exists > > >>> And now my ReviewBoard Instance is complaining the DB is broken. > >>> HELP? > > >>> -- > >>> Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at > >>>http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ > >>> Happy user? Let us know athttp://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > >>> -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en > > >> -- > >> Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at > >>http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ > >> Happy user? Let us know athttp://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > >> -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en > > > -- > > Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at > >http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ > > Happy user? Let us know athttp://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en -- Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en