Upgrade from 3.7.0 to 3.8.0 broke all sorts of things #13990

Wow, somebody really messed it up this time. The upgrade from 3.7.0 to 3.8.0 came up with the following problems:

1) The upgrade procedure produced this error:

SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'dbuser.matomo_brute_force_log' doesn't exist

2) The upgrade procedure caused the following PHP error

Error in Matomo (tracker): Error query: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'dbuser.matomo_tracking_failure' doesn't exist In query: SELECT idsite FROM matomo_tracking_failure WHERE idsite = ? and idfailure = ? Parameters: array (   0 => 1,   1 => 2, )

3) The integrity check now reports these two files need to be deleted:

File to delete: misc/internal-docs/content-tracking.md
File to delete: .lfsconfig

4) Many Settings pages (like the new change admin password) generate this error:

Error in Matomo: Could not verify the security token on this form.

I had the same errors.
Managed to get things working again with

• delete the files mentioned in 3.
• finish the database migrations with php /path/to/matomo/console core:update

By running ./console core:update, I noticed that the database queries counted as 5 in total, but they are in fact 7, so I saw the queries running beyond 5/5 to 6/5 then 7/5. Maybe this is related, as the database upgrade was the failing step when updating from web.

thanks for the report. duplicates #13836