HELP !!! site crashed after upgrade to 7.8

i need someone to help me asap ...i just tried the 7.08 upgrade from 7.7  ...my site was running fine until i did the upgrade to 7.08 a few minutes ago

i was clearing th cache as instructed and didn't even get to recomplie languages etc.. 

it came up with this error 

Warning: fopen(/home/oilpals/public_html/cache_public/bx_templ_css_f212aceab5e56fdb29d31884e98adcfd.css) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in/home/oilpals/public_html/inc/classes/BxDolTemplate.php on line 1123

Fatal error: Call to undefined method BxDolTemplateAdmin::_includeFile() in /home/oilpals/public_html/inc/classes/BxDolTemplate.php on line 1130

now what the heck am i supposed to do ??? i can't login to admin or anything ....  see for yourself here ...

http://oilpals.com  or alternately  /administration ....

Dude manually clear the content of cache, public_cache and try again.

and you posted this two time.

Good Luck.

i don't need " luck " i need this to work ..... try what again ....  re-run upgrade ..... after clearing the cache or what ?  i did that numerous times before and after excuse my repeat post but i'm frazzled and need to get it running .again asap...

ummmmmmmmi don't think you understand the problem here .. the site is dead ... after this upgrade... i  get the same error when trying to access the admin portion ...in otherwords it can't login to admin period!!! 

now when you try to access the main page http://oilpals.com it says this 

did anybody bother to test this upgrade before they put it out there for us to use ???

Your site works fine to the outside world. Try starting a new browser session :)

just a note to tuck in your hat for future reference. just because there is a new release, does not by any means, require or even remotely suggest that you jump on the bandwagon and get the update on your site. 

i typically wait 3 months for all kinks to be knocked out of any release, before i attempt to apply it to a production environment. let the rest of the crew get the headaches and Database errors and Failed to open errors. 

another note, that you can tuck in your hat, if you have limited experience with dolphin, its always best to do  your testing in a sandbox environment. 

create something like --> devdol.mysite.com

test there then if things go well, then you know you can make the transition into your production environment. editing a live site, with minimalistic knowledge and exprerience is almost always certain to give somebody a headache. 

I completely agree with DosDawg, i have also not applied 7.0.8 yet. I will wait till december.