SharePoint 2010 Error – One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete these fields

If you receive the following error after attempting to access Site manager after upgrading your site collection / SharePoint site :

Then go to Site Settings-> Site Collection Administration-> Site Collection Features

De-activate “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure”.

 

You’ll notice there is a ‘no title’ item in the list:

Delete the relations list @ – Relationships%20List/AllItems.aspx

Go back to your site collection features and activate SharePoint server publishing infrastructure features

If you get the following error when attempting to activate the site:

Run the following command to forcefully start it:

What’s interesting is it wasn’t started when I rechecked….however if you click reactivate it it starts :-)……must be a bug!

Go back to the Relationship list and you’ll now notice a GroupGUID:

 

You can now browse back to the  site explorer page and it should now work correctly

 

 

References:

http://mssharepointlearnings.blogspot.com/2011/02/sitemanageraspx-one-or-more-field-types.html

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=353

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010general/thread/150aca88-c32c-4dbf-9f79-638ae438d1a0

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=353