I was trying to upgrade AF first before AS.

The AF installation went successfully with no error.

Then I went to the AF control panel to do the update. Right after I hit the update button I got a pop up "An error has occurred". I clicked ok. Then the update spinning graphic started spinning. I thought maybe I can just ignore that error message. So I waited. But no, it was spinning forever ( nearly 10mins with only a few sample posts). I tested this on both IE and Firefox. Same.

What could be wrong? Thanks.

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my site: dnn 5.2.3

Current active version:

Active Forums 4.1.19
Active Forums What's New 1.2.3
ActiveForumViewer 4.1.18
( I listed all of them. I just noticed they got different version there.)
Active Social 1.4.1
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Thanks.

For got to mention I was trying to upgrade to AF 4.2

Your installation must have failed. Try installing again. Any errors in the event log?

The installation was successful. No error message. I checked the log it was good. The only thing I noticed from the log is that right after the installation therewas an " Application Started" log.

I installed it one more time. It's the same. Installation was successful, but can not update.

Please create a support ticket with host access information.

Thank you very much for solving the issue. (It was a 3rd party module that caused the problem.)