Broken default Abantecart 1.21

[alevene]

I have been working to upgrade version 1.21 to 1.22, 1.23 and so on without any success. I decided to find if the default AbanteCart was defective or if I was making a mistake. I found that AbanteCart is broken!

I installed a fresh version of 1.21 using a new MySql database and the default sample data. I immediately attempted an upgrade only to get the same message as with my production system attempts.

There has been a critical error processing your request

So my data had nothing to do with the upgrade errors. Does AbanteCart have a solution other than to start again on 1.24 hoping that they have figured out how to do a simple upgrade from 1.24 to 1.25 and on toward v2.0?

[abolabo]

Can you post your error log here? (see folder  public_html/system/logs)

[Basara]

I have been working to upgrade version 1.21 to 1.22, 1.23 and so on without any success. I decided to find if the default AbanteCart was defective or if I was making a mistake. I found that AbanteCart is broken!

Hello. Due to server limitation like files and folders permissions, not enough server ram to create autobackup file before upgrade some users have issues with autoupgrade process
Please check next guides:
Manual update
Upgrade troubleshoot

[alevene]

Here is the log. I'll check the resources issue.

2015-10-26 12:34:59 - warning:  AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 simplexml_load_file(): /var/tmp/phpxJk7sq:2: parser error : Start tag expected, '&lt;' not found in <b>/home5/netwosl3/public_html/1steamabante121test/core/lib/data.php</b> on line <b>567</b>
2015-10-26 12:34:59 - warning:  AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 simplexml_load_file():  in <b>/home5/netwosl3/public_html/1steamabante121test/core/lib/data.php</b> on line <b>567</b>
2015-10-26 12:34:59 - warning:  AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 simplexml_load_file(): ^ in <b>/home5/netwosl3/public_html/1steamabante121test/core/lib/data.php</b> on line <b>567</b>
2015-10-26 12:34:59 - warning:  AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in <b>/home5/netwosl3/public_html/1steamabante121test/core/lib/data.php</b> on line <b>122</b>
2015-10-26 12:47:03 - warning:  AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 mysql_query(): 81 is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in <b>/home5/netwosl3/public_html/1steamabante121test/core/database/mysql.php</b> on line <b>74</b>
2015-10-26 12:47:03 - warning:  AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 mysql_error(): 81 is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in <b>/home5/netwosl3/public_html/1steamabante121test/core/database/mysql.php</b> on line <b>114</b>
2015-10-26 12:47:03 - warning:  AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 mysql_errno(): 81 is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in <b>/home5/netwosl3/public_html/1steamabante121test/core/database/mysql.php</b> on line <b>114</b>
2015-10-26 12:47:03 - database error:  AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 Error: <br />Error No: <br />SHOW TABLES FROM `netwosl3_steamabante092315` in <b>/home5/netwosl3/public_html/1steamabante121test/core/database/mysql.php</b> on line <b>114</b>

[abolabo]

try to open file public_html/system/config.php and replace DB_DRIVER from 'mysql' to 'amysqli'

[alevene]

Abolabo, YAY! After making the changes, the test and regular site upgraded (so far to 1.23) without incident.

Thank you, so much, for your words of wisdom. I have been working on this for months without any resolution.

Thanks again!