Howdy - working on getting transferred over to MySQL, and when I fired up mt-db2mysql.cgi, I got this error:



Any ideas?

Erk...well, maybe I got some of it. I'd hacked around with the Util.pm to add smileys, and whaddaya know - the script was gagging on one of my additions.

Switched back to the normal version of Util.pm, and I get this...



Back to the drawing board...

Okay, checked out 'load.pl', and it turns out that it was a plugin that I'd experimented with at one point. Nuked it, tried again.



I feel like I'm making progress...I'm a bit hesitant to go poking around inside mt-db2mysql.cgi, though. Maybe I should actually just wait for a response before proceeding further?

Okay, I am making progress here. Apparently the conversion had started on one of the first tries, and had already created the needed tables. When the script failed 'cause I goofed things up, the next time I tried to run it, it saw that the tables were already there and errored out. Went into MySQL, deleted all existing tables, and tried again.

Okay - line 91 of Object.pm is



Pretty obvious there - for some reason, the system doesn't know what ObjectDriver to use/look for/poke with a sharp stick/whatever.

Now, in my mt.cfg, I've commented out the mtdb line, and added the required MySQL lines as such:



Obviously, the databse name and username are as they should be, and not as posted here.

So...is there somewhere else I should be defining the ObjectDriver? There's obviously _some_ amount of connectivity between MT and MySQL - I just checked again, and the tables inside the database that I'd just dropped are there again. They're all empty, but they do exist.

Now what?

Okay - much thanks to girlie for helping someone else with the same problem!

http://www.movabletype.org/cgi-bin....t=12218

Maybe this could use a bit more clarity in the manual? I was under the impression (and apparently the other person was too) that it was an either/or situation - and while I suppose that normally that would be the case, during the conversion you need both.

Now I know. And knowing is half the battle. G.I.Joe!

Anyway, conversion's in process now. Hopefully this'll be the last of my blather here...

Okay, if someone takes a peek at this - I keep seeing this line pop up every so often during the conversion process:



Is this anything I need to worry about? I figure worst case scenario, it's something that'll break the whole thing (doubtful, since the conversion is still going), and best case scenario, it's just picking up on entries where I didn't escape all the characters in some obnoxiously long URL correctly.

The real answer, of course, will probably be somewhere between the two extremes.

Oh, and checking line 478 of Util.pm didn't help - all it is is  ???

(Though, I'm still curious about the 'uninitialized value' errors I mentioned in the post immediately preceeding this one, if anyone has the time...)

I ran into the same problem as you, because I had that line commented out.

I too interpreted the manual in that way.

Anyway, I got the all is well sign!

I got the same error but mine was line 580. Same code on the line, tho. I had successful completion too, and i don't see anything weird with that entry. I wonder what it meant. I got a whole bunch of them... It looks like it might have something to do with trackbacks or pings.