upgrading jira 4.2.4 to 5.2.4 creating an issues

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https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Migrating+JIRA+to+Another+Server#MigratingJIRAtoAnotherServer-createnewdb

Following an above instruction while upgrading. Initialization of Jira 5.2.4 was successful but while import the xml data to use an existing Mysql database. It is giving a lots of problems.

[Rahul Aich [Nagra] · Accepted solution]

There is a mandatory intermediate upgrade step of version 4.4. I suggest you first upgrade to 4.4 and confirm everything is fine and then plan for further upgrades.

Also have a look at this url

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/111770/jira-4-2-to-5-1-upgrade

Rahul

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That is true, there are not some file which used to be in 4.2.4. But following all the steps, I was still having a problem. Finally i figured it out that the main problem that I was facing was with the Previous JAVA version which is incompatible with the latest Jira. Upgrading JAVA jre1.6.0_16 to jre1.7.0_10 resolves the issue of improting .xml file.

Nishant