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Help installing patches in 162

• gtilflm
  

  2008-12-16 14:02:23

  Help installing patches in 162

  Hello. I've tried to install the patches for the newly released 1.6.2 version and I keep getting this error AFTER I chmodded the appropriate files and directories....
  
  " Unknown column 'author' in 'field list' "
  
  Any idea how I deal with this?
  
  Thanks.
  
  
  
  
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• cindy
  

  2008-12-16 14:56:00

  Re: Help installing patches in 1.6.2

  Hi,
  
  Is your 1.6.2 fresh installed or upgrade from older version? if upgrade, which version do u upgrade from?
  
  Thanks.

• gtilflm
  

  2008-12-16 15:02:18

  Re: Help installing patches in 1.6.2

  I had 1.6.1 installed about a month ago. I tested some features on 1.6.1 like gradebook and making up some assignments and user groups, etc. Just to test things out.
  
  But then a couple days ago, I deleted it on my webhost account in order to do a fresh install of 1.6.2. My webhost helped me install 1.6.2, which should have been a fresh install. However, strangely enough, the demo stuff from 1.6.1 was still there after 1.6.2 was installed.
  
  Any ideas?
  
  Thanks.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  If you are asking for help, provide lots of detail so problems can be reproduced.
  
  Things to describe:
  Operating system ATutor is installed on -
  ATutor version -
  Patch #s applied -
  ATutor theme name -
  PHP version -
  MySQL version -
  Webserver & version -
  Copies of error messages -
  Changes to default settings -
  Web browser being used -
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• cindy
  

  2008-12-16 15:31:43

  Re: Help installing patches in 1.6.2

  This error is caused the by the missing field "author" in table "patches".
  
  From what you specified, the reasons might be: 1.6.2 could be using the database created by 1.6.1. They should be using the different databases though. While 1.6.1 exists and installing another fresh 1.6.2, pls specify a different database name at installation.

• gtilflm
  

  2008-12-16 15:41:17

  Re: Help installing patches in 1.6.2

  So, do I have to do a completely fresh install of everything?
  
  Or is there a way to keep some of the stuff I had in 1.6.1?
  
  Thanks for the help.

• cindy
  

  2008-12-16 15:49:43

  Re: Help installing patches in 1.6.2

  In order to keep things in 1.6.1, upgrade it to 1.6.2 instead of another fresh install.
  
  how to upgrade: http://help.atutor.ca/admin/upgrading.php

• gtilflm
  

  2008-12-16 15:53:35

  Re: Help installing patches in 1.6.2

  Well, at this point I have 1.6.2 installed already, but it seems to still have some stuff from 1.6.1 as well.
  
  Would it be cleaner at this point to just do a fresh install of 1.6.2? Or is there a way to specifically delete the things from 1.6.1 that are causing the error, but keep my classes info. that I set up previously?
  
  Thanks again.

• greg
  

  2008-12-16 16:00:05

  Re: Help installing patches in 1.6.2

  It seems you've installed where should have upgraded. This will break things in your database.
  
  I'd say you're better off to start over with a fresh 1.6.2