topic Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3 in Alfresco Archive

Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

mpinch — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:47:45 GMT

Is there a documented upgrade path from 3.2r to 3.3? We have a heavily customized 3.2r install, but want to go to 3.3 without dumping all of our content. I'm using and referring to share for the most part. Any suggestions on how to go about doing this?

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

mrogers — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:28:00 GMT

The upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3 should be straightforward.

However
1) make sure you have a backup that works before starting
2) test on a copy of your system first.

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/General_Upgrade_Process

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

stegbth — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:57:25 GMT

Hi,

what is the reason for needing MySQL 5.0.67?
With that requirement a Debian 5 Linux or Ubuntu 8.04LTS Server wont be able to run Alfresco 3.3, as there is only Mysql 5.0.51 included.

greetings
thomas

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

mrogers — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:05:27 GMT

I doubt that the version of MySql makes much difference. Try your version and see how it goes.

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

v912485 — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:53:26 GMT

I had no problem upgrading from 3.2r2 to 3.3 using the general upgrade process. However, Share had become become incredibly slow with some pages taking minutes to render whilst others you needed to refresh the page for them to render.
Alfresco explorer on the other hand was working fine without an issue.
I had to roll back to 3.2r2 however since it's Share we use the most.

Anyone else having these problems?
Tnx,
Allan

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

opoplawski — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:53:56 GMT

I'm seeing pages hang completely on certain site wiki dashlets with 3.3. Removing the dashlet allows more of the page to be displayed, until it hits another dashlet with a problem. A task in the java process gets cpu bound at the same time so it's stuck doing something. Is there any kind of debugging that I can turn on that might help track this down?

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

opoplawski — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:54:18 GMT

My issue appears to have been fixed in the 3.3G nightly build.

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

liefra — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:00:57 GMT

Same issue here. After the upgrade the share site gets really slow.

I also noticed that my upgraded Share application does not contain the new repository browser menu item as seen in the "What’s New in Alfresco 3.3 " webcast (see http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/webcasts/alfresco-webcast-home-page/). Currently not sure if this is related to a configuration setting

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

opoplawski — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:26:50 GMT

It's not enabled by default. See the install instructions for how to enable.

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

bnordgren — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:59:36 GMT

I've seen many of the same symptoms with my share site after the upgrade to 3.3. To the list already presented, I'd add that items in the document library are being systemically "modified by" me with a current timestamp. There is no obvious change in the files (maybe it generated a thumbnail for display?), and the only reason I can think of for it to say I'm the one who changed the file would be that my user account was the one which tried to display the site dashboard.

I am also observing an "excessive" amount of java cpu usage. 285 cpu-minutes in the last 1.75-2 hours or so (note: it is using more than one CPU, that's why there's too many minutes). This cpu usage does not seem to be related to the loading of the pages.

I found that trying to locate a problem dashlet became an exercise in chasing my tail. I would find a configuration which worked when I was ping-ponging back and forth between "Configure dashboard" and the site's dashboard, but when I'd go to "My Dashboard" and try to return to the site from the "My Sites" dashlet, the page would freeze mid-load. I have not yet found any configuration which loads when I'm linking in from my dashboard.

There is absolutely nothing in the logs except for one line, which popped up the first time I tried to load a site's dashboard:

09:10:12,530 ERROR [org.apache.pdfbox.filter.FlateFilter] Stop reading corrupt stream‍

Two hours of repeated failure and nothing else is recorded.

Whenever this is fixed, I think it merits a 3.3.1 release.

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

bnordgren — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:03:26 GMT

I just tried the 3.3G nightly build and this seems to have fixed my problem. (Upgraded directly from 3.2r2 to 3.3G, dumping all the "ick" interjected by 3.3) Site dashboards load quickly, load averages are normal, and….

I still get:

11:57:14,696 ERROR [org.apache.pdfbox.filter.FlateFilter] Stop reading corrupt stream‍

Plus the document libraries are empty. (although the files must still be there because some of the files were images that I put on wiki pages, and the images are still showing up.)

And I cannot connect to Alfresco via Sharepoint.

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

bnordgren — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:34:28 GMT

In order to get my Document Library back, I had to rename "share-config-custom.xml.sample" without the trailing sample, edit to remove the fake type definitions ("mytype" "mysubtype" or something like that), and fix the repository URL. Then restart Alfresco.

While I was in there I enabled the RepositoryLibrary.

Effect:

The contents of the document library have returned.

I can connect via sharepoint.

Displaying the site dashboard does not cause the pdfbox error noted above.

The modification time of the files in the document library are updated to now, and I'm listed as the person who updated them.

Load averages are still "normal/low".

There is an unnaturally large space at the top of my pages (separating the top banner containing "My Dashboard" and the banner advertising the name of the Site)

Expected to see "Repository" in the share banner, but it is not there. It's also not in the "Customize site" page as an option.

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

bnordgren — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:38:34 GMT

Final update (from me):

I was looking in the wrong place for the "Repository" link (it's up in the top banner next to "People" and "Sites").

By applying a different theme to the Share site (e.g. "Green Theme") the ugly space at the top went away. Once the spacing is back to normal, I was able to switch back to "Default Theme" again.

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

mikeh — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:44:39 GMT

Final update (from me):

I was looking in the wrong place for the "Repository" link (it's up in the top banner next to "People" and "Sites").

By applying a different theme to the Share site (e.g. "Green Theme") the ugly space at the top went away. Once the spacing is back to normal, I was able to switch back to "Default Theme" again.

That's almost certainly a browser caching issue. It's a good idea to make sure you do a forced refresh when a lot of client-side CSS and JavaScript has been updated (such as a version upgrade on the server).

By the way, it's a much better idea to have the share-config-custom.xml in the Tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension folder (create the structure if you've not got it) as then a .war file redeploy won't overwrite your customisations.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

sb1017 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:47:37 GMT

Hi,
I tried to restore the database of my 3.2 version with mysqldumper. Afterwards version 3.3 does not work any more…

What I have to do in Step4 of the General Restore Process (Restore the database from the database backups)?
- I copy the content of my v3.2-DB into the v3.3-DB?
- I replace v3.3 DB with v3.2 DB?

I also could imagine that the restore did not work because of the tools I used (phpmyadmin and mysqldumper), because they are having problems with innoDB. What's the best way to make the dump and restore on a windows server?

Thanks
Sebastian

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

asta-tu-da — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:39:14 GMT

I just tried the 3.3G nightly build and this seems to have fixed my problem. (Upgraded directly from 3.2r2 to 3.3G, dumping all the "ick" interjected by 3.3) Site dashboards load quickly, load averages are normal, and….

Hi,

is the nightly build the official download or to I have to get it somewhere else? Is it a offical release or does it have some kind of "experimental" or "beta" status?

Thanks!

Regards,
Ivan

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

mrogers — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:42:21 GMT

The "nightly" build has no status at all other that its last night's build.

At this particular time its probably O.K. since head is fairly stable as community 3.3 G is finalized.

The "official" releases are taken from "candidate builds" which are taken when development is known to be in a complete state. They are tested and have release notes etc.

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

bnordgren — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:52:09 GMT

By the way, it's a much better idea to have the share-config-custom.xml in the Tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension folder (create the structure if you've not got it) as then a .war file redeploy won't overwrite your customisations.

Yup. That's what I did. I believe that part of the install instructions specify that you copy the sample files over to the tomcat/shared… directory, so a filename without a directory specification is ambiguous. Sorry.

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

mikeh — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:10:36 GMT

By the way, it's a much better idea to have the share-config-custom.xml in the Tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension folder (create the structure if you've not got it) as then a .war file redeploy won't overwrite your customisations.

Yup. That's what I did. I believe that part of the install instructions specify that you copy the sample files over to the tomcat/shared… directory, so a filename without a directory specification is ambiguous. Sorry.

Wrong discussion thread..?

Re: Upgrade from 3.2r to 3.3

jocke — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:49:35 GMT

Hi,

Is there any solution to this problem? We also have the same issue with slow/hung dashboards after upgrade from 3.2r2 to 3.3. I had to roll back te upgrade.

Note: I tried using the latest nightly build yesterday, but I got the same problem.

Devs?