Question - Issue upgrading to 3.29.0

Forum - Software
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I’m currently trying to upgrade our Eramba Community v3.28.3 installation to 3.29.0. To do this I have replaced the running container image with ghcr.io/eramba/eramba:3.29.0-13. However that image fails to start with the following message:

Composer Exclude Files plugin activated. 
PHP CodeSniffer Config installed_paths set to ../../cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer,../../slevomat/coding-standard
Welcome to Eramba installation procedure!                           
> App\Console\Installer::postInstall
Created `config/app_local.php` file
Please enter the following database details to continue.
You entered information:
Database host: localhost
Database login username: 
Database login password: 
Database name: 
Database port: 3306
Updated Database credentials in config/app_local.php
Created `/var/www/eramba/app/upgrade/tmp/cache/views` directory
Created `/var/www/eramba/app/upgrade/tmp/sessions` directory
Created `/var/www/eramba/app/upgrade/tmp/tests` directory
Permissions set on /var/www/eramba/app/upgrade/tmp/cache/views
Permissions set on /var/www/eramba/app/upgrade/tmp/sessions
Permissions set on /var/www/eramba/app/upgrade/tmp/tests
Updated Security.salt value in config/app_local.php
sending incremental file list
.gitkeep
backups/.gitkeep
emails/.gitkeep
files/.gitkeep
files/account_reviews/.gitkeep
files/awareness/.gitkeep
files/awareness/questionnaires/.gitkeep
files/awareness/text_files/.gitkeep
files/awareness/videos/.gitkeep
files/translations/.gitkeep
files/uploads/.gitkeep
files/vendor_assessment/.gitkeep
resources/.gitkeep
resources/locales/.gitkeep
swagger/.gitkeep

sent 1,324 bytes  received 323 bytes  3,294.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
sending incremental file list
.gitkeep

sent 183 bytes  received 37 bytes  440.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
Using connection: default
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Database is currently not empty.
Running structural migrations.
using connection default
using paths /var/www/eramba/app/upgrade/config/Migrations
ordering by creation time

All Done. Took 0.0074s
Running data migrations.
using connection default
using paths /var/www/eramba/app/upgrade/plugins/DataMigrations/config/Migrations 
ordering by creation time

 == 20251016103230 VendorAssessmentQuestionScoringMigration: migrating 
Class "Eramba\VendorAssessments\Models\VendorAssessmentQuestion" not found
Data migrations failed.
Migration process failed.
Initialisation process failed.
2026-03-30 13:22:25 warning: The connection is going to be closed but there is an active transaction.

Any idea what is going on?

Thanks,
Robert

2

You’ll probably want to roll back and then do the update from the administration area. From what I can tell, the upgrade process doesn’t swap the container out, but instead updates your container….

3

Thanks!

Running the upgrade from the administration area did the trick! After doing this I can now even start the new container!

4

I see it’s solved now, but do you remember deleting the docker_app volume when changing the image?

For other users, if you encounter a “migration not found” error, or any other error when doing an image switch, it usually is one of the following:

  • You are using an older image (for example, forgetting to tag it as latest, or simply using an older one)

  • You are not following sequential upgrades between versions (e.g., upgrading from 3.28.0 directly to 3.29.0 instead of going through 3.28.1)

  • You may have missed a step in the guide, for example the docker_app volume was not deleted

  • Lastly, although not very common, the image may be corrupted during download (try downloading it again).

Image switch guide: