PLEASE HELP - 500 Internal Server Error when upgrading from 2.2.3 to 2.3 (nightly)

Hi,

I'm stuck in between versions of gallery and need your help. I was trying to upgrade from 2.2.3 to 2.3 so that I can get the Piclens support. In step 4:

Currently installed Core Module version: 1.2.0.5 (Gallery 2.2.3)
New version Core Module version: 1.2.33 (Gallery 2.3-svn)
Config.php upgrade Required

after hitting the "begin upgrade" button, it goes into a 40 - 50 sec, and then returns with a 500 Internal Server Error message.

What I've done:
1. Uploaded a "php.ini" file to the "gallery" directory with the contents:
max_execution_time = 300
memory_limit = 64M
mysql.connect_timeout=300
[Session]
session.save_path="/home/users/web/b115/ipw.campanas/public_html/cgi-bin/tmp"

2. Tried to get the error log, but there's no contents in the file "cgi_error_log"

3. Added the following code to gallery/upgrade/index.php see if I can get more info:

   error_reporting(0); 
   $old_error_handler = set_error_handler("userErrorHandler");
 
   function userErrorHandler ($errno, $errmsg, $filename, $linenum,  $vars) 
   {
     $time=date("d M Y H:i:s"); 
     // Get the error type from the error number 
     $errortype = array (1    => "Error",
                         2    => "Warning",
                         4    => "Parsing Error",
                         8    => "Notice",
                         16   => "Core Error",
                         32   => "Core Warning",
                         64   => "Compile Error",
                         128  => "Compile Warning",
                         256  => "User Error",
                         512  => "User Warning",
                         1024 => "User Notice");
      $errlevel=$errortype[$errno];
 
      //Write error to log file (CSV format) 
      $errfile=fopen("errors.csv","a"); 
      fputs($errfile,"\"$time\",\"$filename: 
      $linenum\",\"($errlevel) $errmsg\"\r\n"); 
      fclose($errfile);
 
      if($errno!=2 && $errno!=8) {
         //Terminate script if fatal error
         die("A fatal error has occurred. Script execution has been aborted");
      } 
   }

Which results in only "notice" messages:
"07 May 2008 22:57:35","/hermes/bosweb/web011/b115/ipw.campanas/public_html/gallery/modules/core/classes/Gallery.class:
275","(Notice) Undefined index: multisite"
"07 May 2008 22:57:36","/hermes/bosweb/web011/b115/ipw.campanas/public_html/gallery/modules/core/classes/Gallery.class:
275","(Notice) Undefined index: repository.url"

Do I need to restart the apache server for the new php.ini to take place? (need to ask my hosting company to do this I think)

Please give me some pointers to solve my problem. I've been fighting this for the past couple of days.

PHPInfo: http://campanas.net/gallery/phpinfo.php
Thanks

Gallery version = 2.2.3 core 1.2.0.5
PHP version = 4.4.7 cgi
Webserver = Apache

I think it's poor coding on the part of Gallery that it doesn't do this in smaller stages as webserver applications should never be in process loops for too long. A good example of how this is done is to look at phpBB when it processes many records.

I had the same issue with my own server and I was not prepared to increase the timeout simply to upgrade - I just reverted the code and database back to 2.2.4

Gallery version = 2.2.4 core 1.2.0.6
PHP version = 5.2.6 cgi-fcgi
Webserver = Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Database = mysqlt 5.0.51a-community-nt, lock.system=database
Toolkits = Dcraw, Ffmpeg, ImageMagick, Gd, LinkItemToolkit, Thumbnail, jpegtran, Exif
Acceleration = full/900, none/0
Operating system = Windows NT 5.2 build 3790
Default theme = matrix
gettext = enabled
Locale = en_GB
Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050606 Minefield/3.0pre

Check your g2data directory for upgrade log files. Those should give us the information that we need to fix this. Please PM a link to them to me (don't share them with the public, they have sensitive information).

What happens if you try to run the upgrader a second time?

As with any test of a pre-release, I made a backup of the entire code area for the gallery and also dumped the MySQL database. I just reverted back to those once I had the problem.

Gallery version = 2.2.4 core 1.2.0.6
PHP version = 5.2.6 cgi-fcgi
Webserver = Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Database = mysqlt 5.0.51a-community-nt, lock.system=database