Answered error upgrading from 2.2 to 2.5.2

I have migrated to a new server and MODX Revo is working fine under v2.2 but when I run the /setup to upgrade to v2.5.2, I get a

Fatal error: Call to a member function checkPolicy() on null in /var/www/URL/core/model/modx/modx.class.php on line 1881

This is after /setup has confirmed that everything is ok. I have checked the config files to make sure the URLs are right and tried deleting the contents of /core/cache

The full error message is:

( ! ) Fatal error: Call to a member function checkPolicy() on null in /var/www/URL/core/model/modx/modx.class.php on line 1881
Call Stack
# Time Memory Function Location
1 0.0000 232296 {main}( ) .../index.php:0
2 0.0019 563600 modInstallRequest->handle( ) .../index.php:101
3 0.0037 639408 include( '/var/www/URL/setup/controllers/install.php' ) .../modinstallrequest.class.php:77
4 0.0041 664440 modInstallRunner->run( ) .../install.php:19
5 0.0041 664912 modInstallRunnerWeb->execute( ) .../modinstallrunner.class.php:36
6 0.0326 2619104 modInstallVersion->install( ) .../modinstallrunnerweb.class.php:33
7 0.0350 2743728 include_once( '/var/www/URL/setup/includes/upgrades/mysql/2.4.0-pl.php' ) .../modinstallversion.class.php:75
8 0.1910 3164976 include( '/var/www/URL/setup/includes/upgrades/common/2.4-user-country-iso.php' ) .../2.4.0-pl.php:17
9 0.1910 3165384 modX->runProcessor( ) .../2.4-user-country-iso.php:9
10 0.1920 3390648 modProcessor->run( ) .../modx.class.php:1704
11 0.1920 3390696 modCountryGetListProcessor->checkPermissions( ) .../modprocessor.class.php:161
12 0.1921 3390840 modX->hasPermission( ) .../getlist.class.php:13

What can I do to get it working? The site and manager are reporting a 500 error message.

core/cache/error.log has:

[2016-12-08 23:41:48] (ERROR @ /var/www/URL/core/model/modx/modx.class.php : 2323) Could not prepare context: web
[2016-12-08 23:42:09] (ERROR @ /var/www/URL/core/xpdo/om/xpdoobject.class.php : 240) Error 42S22 executing statement:
Array
(
[0] => 42S22
[1] => 1054
[2] => Unknown column 'modContext.name' in 'field list'
)

[2016-12-08 23:42:09] (ERROR @ /var/www/URL/core/model/modx/modx.class.php : 2323) Could not prepare context: mgr

Kind regards

James

I'm not sure what's causing it but it might be an idea to revert to your backup of 2.2, then try upgrading to 2.3, then 2.4, then 2.5 etc.

See if it still happens on that first step.

It appears that you tried to make too big a jump in MODX versions and skipped over the major releases.

Murray's suggestion is the best option, but if it's not possible, this might help: http://bobsguides.com/blog.html/2016/06/27/missing-db-fields-(unknown-column)/

Thanks Murray and Bob. Will do just that.

Kind regards

James

I had this problem last weekend upgrading two sites from version 2.2.15. The solution was provided by Bert Oost here https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/issues/12764. You need to delete the "name" field you have created after you have upgraded or you end up with multiple contexts in the Manager.