Error after migration: The Privatemsg Message entity type needs to be installed.

Private Messages Allow private messages between users. The following reasons prevent Private Messages from being uninstalled: There is content for the entity type: Privatemsg Message. Remove privatemsg messages. There is content for the entity type: PrivateMsg Thread. Remove privatemsg threads.

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Issue created by @hoporr
Status changed to Closed: won't fix 12 months ago2:25pm 16 November 2023

Comment 12 months ago →

hoporr

I was able to resolve this with an update hook like this:

$type_manager = \Drupal::entityTypeManager();
    $type_manager->clearCachedDefinitions();
    $entity_type = $type_manager->getDefinition('privatemsg_message');
    \Drupal::entityDefinitionUpdateManager()->installEntityType($entity_type);
    
    $type_manager = \Drupal::entityTypeManager();
    $type_manager->clearCachedDefinitions();
    $entity_type = $type_manager->getDefinition('privatemsg_thread');
    \Drupal::entityDefinitionUpdateManager()->installEntityType($entity_type);

It would be intersting to know why this error happened (during migration), but it is gone now so from my end please close this again.

Comment 12 months ago →
ivnish Kazakhstan
hi hoporr!

There is no migration from D7 to D9+ now. How did you do it?
Comment 12 months ago →
hoporr
Yes, that's a good question.

I checked my migration logs, and there is no private mssage migration.

However, I was running the V1 branch of privatemsg, and somehow all the data was there. Potentially, I had just copied the DB tables over back then, and it just worked with V1 ?

When I upgraded for D10, this switched over to the V2 branch, and it did not work anymore. I noticed that the DB structure was different as well.

So I reverted back to V1, and I get the message.