Title: Database upgrade loop
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Database upgrade loop

 *  [Michelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmatters/)
 * (@webmatters)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-upgrade-loop-1/)
 * The site was running 4.3 and the login was not working (wouldn’t go to Dashboard
   just did nothing after entering in correct login details). I tried disabling 
   plugins, disabling themes, but nothing worked. So next tried a manual upgrade
   to 4.4 via FTP. Now when I try to login it asks to upgrade the database, which
   appears to work, but then it loops back to asking me to update the database again.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-upgrade-loop-1/#post-6832277)
 * What theme is currently active on the site? How did you disable your plugins?
 *  Thread Starter [Michelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmatters/)
 * (@webmatters)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-upgrade-loop-1/#post-6832306)
 * It’s using the Avada theme. I changed the plugin directory to plugins-old via
   FTP.
 *  Thread Starter [Michelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmatters/)
 * (@webmatters)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-upgrade-loop-1/#post-6832309)
 * It’s also running on [http://www.winhost.com](http://www.winhost.com) – Windows
   server. In case that makes a difference.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-upgrade-loop-1/#post-6832312)
 * Do you have access to a database management tool similar to Phpmyadmin? If so,
   can you use that tool to repair all tables in the database?
 *  [caygri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caygri/)
 * (@caygri)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-upgrade-loop-1/#post-6832313)
 * I’m the same problem, I active debug and appear
 *     ```
       Errore sul database di WordPress: [Duplicate entry '0' for key 'PRIMARY']
       ALTER TABLE wp_options ADD PRIMARY KEY (option_id)
   
       Errore sul database di WordPress: [Duplicate entry '_transient_external_ip_address_::1' for key 'option_name']
       ALTER TABLE wp_options ADD UNIQUE KEY option_name (option_name)
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Michelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmatters/)
 * (@webmatters)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-upgrade-loop-1/#post-6832331)
 * I had access to phpMyAdmin – but the login didn’t work and it’s now timing out.
   The host’s website appears to be down too.

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## Tags

 * [database upgrade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database-upgrade/)
 * [login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/login/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Michelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmatters/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-upgrade-loop-1/#post-6832331)
 * Status: not resolved

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