topic Re: 1.4 to 2.1 Migration failing in Alfresco Archive

1.4 to 2.1 Migration failing

curious_george — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:21:16 GMT

Hi,I am upgrading our existing Alfresco 1.4 environment to Alfresco 2.1. The system environment is JBoss 4.2.2 with JDK 1.5, Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4), and Oracle 10.2In theory, all we need to do is place the updated alfresco.war in the deploy directory and Alfresco will perform the necessa

Re: 1.4 to 2.1 Migration failing

pmonks — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:27:23 GMT

As described at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/General_Upgrade_Process, it's not recommended to do an in-place upgrade of the Alfresco binaries, since this results in a newer version of Alfresco that's configured with old configuration files (Spring application contexts). As described on that page, a better approach is to install the new version of Alfresco from scratch, then configure it to use the original repository (or better yet a copy of it, to facilitate rollback in the event of problems during the upgrade process).

Now as to the specific symptoms you're seeing, they do look like file permission issues, probably somewhere within the /opt/jboss tree (although the exact location depends on how the JBoss startup scripts set the current working directory before starting the JVM - something I don't recall off the top of my head). Did you recursively apply 777 permissions to everything underneath /opt/jboss? Is the user that owns /opt/jboss being used to start JBoss as well? Also, can you print out the current working directory in the JBoss startup scripts, immediately prior to the JVM being started? That may give some better ideas about where that log file is attempting to be created.

Cheers,
Peter

Re: 1.4 to 2.1 Migration failing

curious_george — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:20:23 GMT

I did apply 777 permissions recursively to the /opt/jboss directory. The 'jboss' user is also the owner, and I did ensure that it was also the owner of the alf_data directory and the /tmp/Alfresco directory.

I launched JBoss as the jboss user. The current working directory is /opt/jboss/bin.

I was also able to get Alf 2.1 working only if I wiped out the alf_data directory AND the database schemas (meaning it worked with the configuration files).

Sorry for the delay in responding - I accidentally wiped out my system and only recently got it working!

Re: 1.4 to 2.1 Migration failing

curious_george — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:58:32 GMT

I believe I may have resolved the issue. The key to the problem was indeed the current working directory. I now noticed I was not in /opt/jboss/bin, I was in a different directory. Once I switched to /opt/jboss/bin (or any directory where 'jboss' had write permissions), then the upgrade would work fantastically.

Thanks for your time. I hope this helps other Alfresco users in the future!

Re: 1.4 to 2.1 Migration failing

pmonks — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:10:06 GMT

Good find! And thanks for replying with the solution - it's great to share this stuff with everyone!

Cheers,
Peter