Upgrading as releases become available

[bd]

I am finding difficulty in locating specific details about what actions to take when applying a later release (for example from 0.6 to 1.0).

My reading of the release notes indicates that I must clear the old WAR file and related folders for the new files to be installed.  Itherwise the Tomcat package is merely extracted over ther current installation to replace the various site files.

However, I find when I execute the start batch file, much scripting is executed under Tomcat, but pauses at:

"17/10/2005 10:12:55 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 117160 ms" and hangs.

If I attempt to run my incumbent URL I get:
"The requested resource (/alfresco/faces/jsp/browse/browse.jsp) is not available."

I sense I am missing something fundamental - any ideas?

[gavinc]

Yes, currently when moving between releases it is recommended that you delete the alfresco directory before unpacking the newer release. Obviously we will have an upgrade procedure for future releases.

If you have done this, did you reset the database? can you connect to the database?

Also the alfresco.log file in Tomcat's bin directory may contain some useful info, do you see anything in there or on the Tomcat console itself?

[bd]

Perhaps this information from my log file after the installation of version 1 gives a clue:

10:11:29,596 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.magick.AbstractImageMagickContentTransformer] ImageMagickContentTransformer not available: Failed to execute command: imconvert "C:\alfresco\tomcat\temp\Alfresco\ImageMagickContentTransformer_init_source_63108.gif"  "C:\alfresco\tomcat\temp\Alfresco\ImageMagickContentTransformer_init_target_63109.png"
10:11:35,128 ERROR [org.alfresco.smb.protocol] CIFS server configuration error, null java.lang.NullPointerException

-And then a long list of 'at' statements, then-

10:12:52,070 ERROR [org.alfresco.web.app.ContextListener] Failed to initialise  java.lang.NullPointerException

- And then more at statements, etc

Any ideas? or more info needed?

[paulhh]

Hi

Did you remove and recreate the Alfresco database and content?  If not, that is the problem.  There have been schema changes and we have only just said that from RC1 the schema will be fixed for some time.  There isn't any easy way to migrate the data - apart from say FTPing it from an old server to a temporary area and then FTPing that back into an RC1 server.  Of course, any additional metadata will be lost, as will rules.  On Windows there is the db_remove.bat script that cleans the database and indexes, and db_setup.bat that recreates the database ready for use.

Cheers
Paul.