Thanks for thinking about this. The problem was that I was updating
from a neolithic Reviewboard (pre 1.0, commit # 1151).
After untangling all of the errors, I realized I was missing an
encoding column, and added it manually. Then forced the DB update to
go through for version 1.5.5 (since that
Wow, it sure is.
What version did you try upgrading from?
What type of database are you using?
Issues like this generally only crop up when someone has made modifications
to Review Board or in some way hand-altered the database. Is your copy
vanilla upstream, or was anything custom ever done on
When tryhing to go to 1.6.1 I get:
# rb-site upgrade /var/www/localhost/reviewboard
Rebuilding directory structure
Updating database. This may take a while.
Creating tables ...
There are unapplied evolutions for accounts.
There are unapplied evolutions for changedescs.
There are unapplied evolution