Followed your steps but still got the same errors. Seems like the file backups backed up the 2.8 version so I got the upgrade DB loop again. However, I think I have this sorted out.
Here’s what I did:
1) Clean install of WP2.3
2) Emptied most tables (comments, links, posts, terms*) of default content
3) Imported data fr my DB backup
4) Refreshed \wp-admin – for some reason I get the DB upgrade message but this time it completed successfully as its 2.3 to 2.3
5) Upgraded to WP2.8
Thanks very much for your pointers!
yes, backed up DB and files. I tried restoring the DB on clean local WP install for WP2.3 and WP2.8 and got the same errors.
Is there a way for me to bypass content inserts into both those tables? Don’t mind manually re-inserting those rows if I have to as I don’t have a lot of categories.
Also tried manually disabling all plugins to no avail…
