Dashboard broken after 5.5 Update

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I not new to C5 and this 5.5 Update. But I updated an old site from 5.4 to 5.5.2.1 and the Dashboard view is breaking and I can not edit the page, and the first row is moved down...

I removed the toolbar and underneath I found the two old buttons:
Edit and Add Page.
In the new version we have only one button Edit, and after hovering we get the button "Edit This Page" and "Add A Sub-Page".

So what is going on here?
Shall I do another update?

I would be great if you had some suggestions or solutions!

Agetis
 
ConcreteOwl replied on at Permalink Reply
ConcreteOwl
Firstly,
Was the old version 5.4.2.2 because you cannot upgrade an earlier version to 5.5.2.1, you must upgrade sequentially to 5.4.2.2 first..
Second
How did you upgrade? was it manually via ftp or was it via the dashboard by auto update?
Agetis replied on at Permalink Reply
Agetis
I did upgrade to 5.4.2.2 first, But so far I know there was something wrong with the Back Up and maybe also Update. Then I updated to 5.5.2.1.

How can I return to the old version?
That's what I'm trying to do now.
ConcreteOwl replied on at Permalink Reply
ConcreteOwl
How did you update?
jasteele12 replied on at Permalink Reply
jasteele12
I tried a 5.4.2.2 upgrade to 5.5.2.1 last night. I manually upgrade by symlinking to different cores (quite a few sites running off the same cores).

After running index.php/tools/required/upgrade my dashboard was messed up, including scrapbooks completely missing.

/dashboard/scrapbook/ even gave me a 404 (this client uses them all over the place). "Luckily" I had full files/db backups to restore from.

I think I'm going to try and go first to 5.5.0 then 5.5.2.1
Agetis replied on at Permalink Reply
Agetis
@weyboat I updatet via the dashboard. But now I used FTP to Downgrade again. I've changed the config/site.php and But it didn't work totally. It is running now the 5.4.2.1 or 5.4.2.2 (if I set it in the site.php). But the Dashboard is now totally messed up. I have a lot options from the new version with the old design and not everything is working. There are a lot of page_not_found errors.

@jasteele123 how did you downgrade?
I'm having a Backup. But since there were some errors with making this backup I would like to check it - how can I check if the backup is good?
jasteele12 replied on at Permalink Reply
jasteele12
I downgraded manually also.
cd public_html
tar xvzf ~/backup/thesite.tar.gz
mysql -h db_host -u thesiteuser -p -d site_dbname < ~/backup/thesite.sql
cd thesite
rm concrete
ln -s ~/c5422 concrete

As easy as that :)

Probably the easiest way to check if your db backup is okay, is to restore it to a new database (most likely created through your hosting panel), like so:

mysql ... -d new_dbname < your_backup.sql

Then change DB_DATABASE in config/site.php
Agetis replied on at Permalink Reply
Agetis
@jasteele123 I'm now trying to make a new C5 site with the restored database. But I can not use the database I Backuped from C5. When I import it with phpMyadmin I get this error:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin-3.5.1-all-languages/libraries/import/sql.php on line 135

The only database that let's me import is the same I use right now. But then I can't Login since it says that my password is not correct and my e-mail is not known...

This looks like a more serious problem then I thought.
Can somebody help me now?

I would like to get back to the 5.4.2.2 version and then upgrade to 5.5.0.
How do you actually update manually to 5.5.0 from 5.4 versions since this is a big update!? Shouldn't this be done rather automatically?
jasteele12 replied on at Permalink Reply
jasteele12
Yeah, you either need to increase your PHP max_execution_time, use the mysql command line (from a shell like above), or an external MySQL client.

The manual way is how I did it above, but that won't work if you don't have shell access.