neo4j drwho dataset upgrade to 3.0 not working - neo4j

Question

I am trying to use the "Jim Webber’s Doctor Who Data Set" from http://neo4j.com/developer/example-data/ in my Mac OSX with Neo4j 3.0.1-community.
I am following these steps (doc is here):
download the zip data file into the import directory (for convenience), and rename it as graph.db.
set dbms.allow_format_migration=true in $NEO4J_HOME/conf/neo4j.conf
Import data using $NEO4J_HOME/bin/neo4j-admin import --mode=database --database=graph.db --from=$NEO4J_HOME/import/graph.db/
start neo4j server
The neo4j console doesn't start, with this error message:
bin/neo4j console
Starting Neo4j.
2016-06-15 09:24:11.371+0000 INFO Starting...
2016-06-15 09:24:12.084+0000 INFO Bolt enabled on localhost:7687.
2016-06-15 09:24:12.296+0000 INFO Starting upgrade of database
2016-06-15 09:24:12.315+0000 ERROR Failed to start Neo4j: Starting Neo4j failed: Component 'org.neo4j.server.database.LifecycleManagingDatabase#51f07bf0' was successfully initialized, but failed to start. Please see attached cause exception. Starting Neo4j failed: Component 'org.neo4j.server.database.LifecycleManagingDatabase#51f07bf0' was successfully initialized, but failed to start. Please see attached cause exception.
org.neo4j.server.ServerStartupException: Starting Neo4j failed: Component 'org.neo4j.server.database.LifecycleManagingDatabase#51f07bf0' was successfully initialized, but failed to start. Please see attached cause exception.
at org.neo4j.server.exception.ServerStartupErrors.translateToServerStartupError(ServerStartupErrors.java:68)
at org.neo4j.server.AbstractNeoServer.start(AbstractNeoServer.java:217)
at org.neo4j.server.ServerBootstrapper.start(ServerBootstrapper.java:81)
at org.neo4j.server.ServerBootstrapper.start(ServerBootstrapper.java:60)
at org.neo4j.server.CommunityEntryPoint.main(CommunityEntryPoint.java:28)
Caused by: org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifecycleException: Component 'org.neo4j.server.database.LifecycleManagingDatabase#51f07bf0' was successfully initialized, but failed to start. Please see attached cause exception.
at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport$LifecycleInstance.start(LifeSupport.java:444)
at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport.start(LifeSupport.java:107)
at org.neo4j.server.AbstractNeoServer.start(AbstractNeoServer.java:189)
... 3 more
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error starting org.neo4j.kernel.impl.factory.CommunityFacadeFactory, /Users/miro/Documents/dev/neo4j/neo4j-community-3.0.1/data/databases/graph.db
at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.factory.GraphDatabaseFacadeFactory.newFacade(GraphDatabaseFacadeFactory.java:144)
at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.factory.CommunityFacadeFactory.newFacade(CommunityFacadeFactory.java:40)
at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.factory.GraphDatabaseFacadeFactory.newFacade(GraphDatabaseFacadeFactory.java:108)
at org.neo4j.server.CommunityNeoServer.lambda$static$32(CommunityNeoServer.java:55)
at org.neo4j.server.database.LifecycleManagingDatabase.start(LifecycleManagingDatabase.java:89)
at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport$LifecycleInstance.start(LifeSupport.java:434)
... 5 more
Caused by: org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifecycleException: Component 'org.neo4j.kernel.NeoStoreDataSource#7b464635' was successfully initialized, but failed to start. Please see attached cause exception.
at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport$LifecycleInstance.start(LifeSupport.java:444)
at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport.start(LifeSupport.java:107)
at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.transaction.state.DataSourceManager.start(DataSourceManager.java:99)
at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport$LifecycleInstance.start(LifeSupport.java:434)
at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport.start(LifeSupport.java:107)
at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.factory.GraphDatabaseFacadeFactory.newFacade(GraphDatabaseFacadeFactory.java:140)
... 10 more
Caused by: org.neo4j.kernel.impl.storemigration.StoreUpgrader$UnexpectedUpgradingStoreVersionException: '/Users/miro/Documents/dev/neo4j/neo4j-community-3.0.1/data/databases/graph.db/neostore' has a store version 'v0.A.0' that we cannot upgrade from.
at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.storemigration.UpgradableDatabase.checkUpgradeable(UpgradableDatabase.java:122)
at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.storemigration.StoreUpgrader.migrateIfNeeded(StoreUpgrader.java:129)
at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.storemigration.DatabaseMigrator.migrate(DatabaseMigrator.java:98)
at org.neo4j.kernel.NeoStoreDataSource.upgradeStore(NeoStoreDataSource.java:554)
at org.neo4j.kernel.NeoStoreDataSource.start(NeoStoreDataSource.java:433)
at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport$LifecycleInstance.start(LifeSupport.java:434)
... 15 more
Does anyeone know how to fix it? Has anyone managed to use the datasets in the doc?
Thank you!

Answer 1

Neo4j 3.0 allows direct upgrades from any cleanly shutdown Neo4j 2.x dataset. However the DrWho dataset you're referring to is from old days of Neo4j 1.9 (or even earlier). Due to this you need a two step upgrade process:
download Neo4j 2.3.3 (or any new 2.x release)
unpack the drwho.zip into data/graph.db
set allow_store_upgrade=true in conf/neo4j.properties
start the database and stop it gracefully
unpack neo4j 3.0.x
copy the data/graph.db from Neo4j 2.x to data/databases/graph.db
set dbms.allow_format_migration=true in conf/neo4j.conf
start up Neo4j 3.0.x