[Opensim-users] Problems upgrading to 0.7 from 0.6.9

[Marck]

Neil Canham wrote:
> Hi - reposting this from opensim-dev as I realised this was a better forum
>    When trying to upgrade my 0.6.9 standalone region to 0.7 I hit a
> problem.  My 0.6.9 was a straight forward single region stand-alone
> install on Vista 64-bit, just modified config to use MySQL.  Just two
> users one of which was the 'master user' (estate manager). To upgrade I
> modified opensim.ini and config-include/StandaloneCommon.ini to enable
> MySQL and ran OpenSim.32BitLaunch.exe - entered the name of the 0.6.9
> region, and also entered the name of the 0.6.9 master user as the estate
> manager.  All seemed well.  However, I am then unable to log either of
> the users in - I get 'Login failed, unable to retrieve user inventory'
> in the console and 'The inventory service is not responding' in the
> client. I can create new users, and they log in fine.  Since I had a DB
> backup I was able to revert to 0.6.9, create OAR and IARs and get 0.7 up
> and running that way, but I'm wondering - did I miss a step with the
> upgrade process?
>
> Thanks
> Neil Canham

As far as I know, there are a few reports about issues with upgrading user accounts from 0.6.x to 0.7. You may find the discussion in Mantis #4875 (http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=4875) interesting where a routine is described for forcing the update of user accounts. Basically, it consists of manually resetting the "Migrations" table entries for "UserAccount" or "AuthStore", removing those tables and thus forcing OpenSim to rebuild the new tables from the old "users" table on startup. If you want to try this, then make sure to only reset one table between restarts of OpenSim and never both at the same time.