The problem seems to be that the upgrade executes calls for the relatively new db_* interface with caching without having the functions defined. see:
http://cvs.openacs.org/cvs/openacs-4/packages/acs-tcl/tcl/00-database-procs.tcl?r1=1.61&r2=1.62have you tried to boot from the new kernel with the old database and use acs-admin/apm/packages-install to run the update scripts then?
