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  <title>Error in upgrade from  6.2 to 7.1</title>
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  <subtitle>Error in upgrade from  6.2 to 7.1</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-04-03T18:44:39Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-04-03T18:44:39Z</dc:date>
  <entry>
    <title>RE: Error in upgrade from  6.2 to 7.1</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Jin suku</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=114148634</id>
    <updated>2019-06-27T07:35:36Z</updated>
    <published>2019-06-27T07:35:36Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Alberto Chaparro:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Jin,The error is caused because this is null:&lt;a href="https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/blob/master/portal-kernel/src/com/liferay/portal/kernel/upgrade/UpgradeProcess.java#L480"&gt;https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/blob/master/portal-kernel/src/com/liferay/portal/kernel/upgrade/UpgradeProcess.java#L480&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This can only happen when that file or folder (META-INF/sql/indexes.sql) doesn&amp;#39;t exist, it should be inside the portal-impl.jar o in classes folder. There could be a problem with the permissions or paths. From my experience, it is a problem with the configuration/files in your environment.Can you check it?Thanks.&lt;/blockquote&gt;1. Added a file called  &amp;#34;com.liferay.portal.upgrade.internal.configuration.ReleaseManagerConfiguration.config&amp;#34; to &amp;#34;[Liferay Home]/osgi/configs&amp;#34; with content :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;autoUpgrade=&amp;#34;false&amp;#34;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &amp;#34;com.liferay.portal.search.configuration.IndexStatusManagerConfiguration.config&amp;#34; with content:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;indexReadOnly=&amp;#34;true&amp;#34;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. In &amp;#34;[Liferay Home]/tools/portal-tools-db-upgrade-client/&amp;#34;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. app-server.properties:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;dir=/Users/admin/NhanHoang/ws-LIFERAY7/LiferayProjectSDKwithDevStudioCommunityEdition/ws-mocst/portal-7.1/tomcat-9.0.10&lt;br /&gt;extra.lib.dirs=/Users/admin/NhanHoang/ws-LIFERAY7/LiferayProjectSDKwithDevStudioCommunityEdition/ws-mocst/portal-7.1/tomcat-9.0.10/bin&lt;br /&gt;global.lib.dir=/Users/admin/NhanHoang/ws-LIFERAY7/LiferayProjectSDKwithDevStudioCommunityEdition/ws-mocst/portal-7.1/tomcat-9.0.10/lib&lt;br /&gt;portal.dir=/Users/admin/NhanHoang/ws-LIFERAY7/LiferayProjectSDKwithDevStudioCommunityEdition/ws-mocst/portal-7.1/tomcat-9.0.10/webapp/ROOT&lt;br /&gt;server.detector.server.id=tomcat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.portal-upgrade-ext.properties:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;liferay.home=/Users/admin/NhanHoang/ws-LIFERAY7/LiferayProjectSDKwithDevStudioCommunityEdition/ws-mocst/portal-7.1&lt;br /&gt;module.framework.base.dir=/Users/admin/NhanHoang/ws-LIFERAY7/LiferayProjectSDKwithDevStudioCommunityEdition/ws-mocst/portal-7.1/osgi&lt;br /&gt;dl.store.impl=com.liferay.portal.store.file.system.FileSystemStore&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.portal-upgrade-database.properties:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver&lt;br /&gt;jdbc.default.password=s0968abc@&lt;br /&gt;jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/delcofarm71?characterEncoding=UTF-8&amp;amp;dontTrackOpenResources=true&amp;amp;holdResultsOpenOverStatementClose=true&amp;amp;useFastDateParsing=false&amp;amp;useUnicode=true&lt;br /&gt;jdbc.default.username=root&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which one do i need check more ?</summary>
    <dc:creator>Jin suku</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2019-06-27T07:35:36Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>RE: Error in upgrade from  6.2 to 7.1</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Alberto Chaparro</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=114133371</id>
    <updated>2019-06-26T16:36:26Z</updated>
    <published>2019-06-26T16:36:26Z</published>
    <summary type="html">Hi Jin,The error is caused because this is null:&lt;a href="https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/blob/master/portal-kernel/src/com/liferay/portal/kernel/upgrade/UpgradeProcess.java#L480"&gt;https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/blob/master/portal-kernel/src/com/liferay/portal/kernel/upgrade/UpgradeProcess.java#L480&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This can only happen when that file or folder (META-INF/sql/indexes.sql) doesn&amp;#39;t exist, it should be inside the portal-impl.jar o in classes folder. There could be a problem with the permissions or paths. From my experience, it is a problem with the configuration/files in your environment.Can you check it?Thanks.</summary>
    <dc:creator>Alberto Chaparro</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2019-06-26T16:36:26Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Error in upgrade from  6.2 to 7.1</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Jin suku</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=114129716</id>
    <updated>2019-06-26T11:04:20Z</updated>
    <published>2019-06-26T11:04:20Z</published>
    <summary type="html">I am upgrading from Liferay 6.2-ce-GA5 to Liferay 7.1-GA3.  I get  error like these : &lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol style="list-style: decimal outside;" start="1"&gt;&lt;li&gt;2019-06-26 10:56:22.150 INFO  [main][UpgradeProcess:107] Completed upgrade process com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v7_0_0.UpgradeKernelPackage in 173 ms&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2019-06-26 10:56:22.151 INFO  [main][UpgradeProcess:93] Upgrading com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v7_0_0.UpgradeSharding&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2019-06-26 10:56:22.151 INFO  [main][LoggingTimer:83] Starting com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v7_0_0.UpgradeSharding#getShardNames&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2019-06-26 10:56:22.152 INFO  [main][LoggingTimer:43] Completed com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v7_0_0.UpgradeSharding#getShardNames in 1 ms&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2019-06-26 10:56:22.153 INFO  [main][UpgradeProcess:107] Completed upgrade process com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v7_0_0.UpgradeSharding in 2 ms&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2019-06-26 10:56:22.153 INFO  [main][UpgradeProcess:93] Upgrading com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v7_0_0.UpgradeAddress&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2019-06-26 10:56:22.155 INFO  [main][LoggingTimer:83] Starting com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess#alter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2019-06-26 10:56:22.320 INFO  [main][LoggingTimer:43] Completed com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess#alter in 165 ms&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2019-06-26 10:56:22.320 INFO  [main][UpgradeProcess:107] Failed upgrade process com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v7_0_0.UpgradeAddress in 167 ms&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2019-06-26 10:56:22.321 INFO  [main][UpgradeProcess:107] Failed upgrade process com.liferay.portal.upgrade.UpgradeProcess_7_0_0 in 17995 ms&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: java.lang.NullPointerException&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess.upgrade(UpgradeProcess.java:101)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.util.UpgradeProcessUtil._upgradeProcess(UpgradeProcessUtil.java:176)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.util.UpgradeProcessUtil.upgradeProcess(UpgradeProcessUtil.java:143)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.util.UpgradeProcessUtil.upgradeProcess(UpgradeProcessUtil.java:125)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.events.StartupHelper.upgradeProcess(StartupHelper.java:151)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.events.StartupHelperUtil.upgradeProcess(StartupHelperUtil.java:85)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.tools.DBUpgrader.upgrade(DBUpgrader.java:174)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.tools.DBUpgrader.main(DBUpgrader.java:107)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.tools.db.upgrade.client.DBUpgraderLauncher.main(DBUpgraderLauncher.java:55)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Caused by: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: java.lang.NullPointerException&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess.upgrade(UpgradeProcess.java:101)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess.upgrade(UpgradeProcess.java:142)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.upgrade.UpgradeProcess_7_0_0.doUpgrade(UpgradeProcess_7_0_0.java:82)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess.upgrade(UpgradeProcess.java:96)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    ... 12 more&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at java.io.Reader.&amp;lt;init&amp;gt;(Reader.java:78)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at java.io.InputStreamReader.&amp;lt;init&amp;gt;(InputStreamReader.java:72)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess.getIndexesSQL(UpgradeProcess.java:486)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess.alter(UpgradeProcess.java:422)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v7_0_0.UpgradeAddress.doUpgrade(UpgradeAddress.java:27)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess.upgrade(UpgradeProcess.java:96)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;    ... 15 more&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plz suggest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks</summary>
    <dc:creator>Jin suku</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2019-06-26T11:04:20Z</dc:date>
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