Can't upgrade to Alfresco 1.4 (from 1.3)

[nricheton]

I'm not able to upgrade my existing alfresco installation to 1.4 (Community) while keeping my current repository. I have the following problems :
(os : debian )

I tryed to do a manual upgrade usig alfresco-tomcat.tar.gz : I made a backup of my DB and data and i replaced alfresco.war.

- During the first restart, alfresco automatically updates the repository, but at least 2 patches fail with transaction roll back. I can't start Alfresco : each restart gives this error : "Not all patches could be applied").

So I changed my mind, I did an export of my repository first and tried to import it back on a clean alfresco 1.4 install.

- I got alfresco 1.4 up with a manual install and an empty database, but I was not able to login. The previous admin account (admin/admin) did not work.

I set up the ldap connection to be able to log as admin.
I converted my export.acp to 1.4 format BUT

- The unix script does not work : it uses % for vars instead of $. It looks like a bad and never tested conversion of the windows script. Nevermind, I fixed it.
- The upgrader breaks the UTF-8 encoding, and all my files containing special chars have bad names AFTER using 1-3_to_1-4.sh.

Even with bad names, I tried to do the import, but  :

- Exception : duplicate node name.  The export included duplicate entries in export.xml, which Alfresco 1.3 allowed to create in my repository (sounds like a bug). I had 2 files like this. I fixed the xml manually.

Next try :
- Exception : Failed to execute import: org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Invalid store ref: Does not contain :// ../../../../cm:move[3]/cm:Intranet_x0020/cm:_x0039_GestionProjet

I think I won't be able to check manually each ref in this xml : my export has 1.5GB full of doc/ppt/txt files.

My feeling is that the upgrade process is really buggy. The Wiki page is no help (only tells to save your database : a REALLY good advice). It may have worked better if I upgraded to 1.3.1 first, but I can't find this version on sf (like this user : http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=3939)

Can anyone help me with this ? I can provide my fixed 1-3_to_1-4.sh for the alfresco team.

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Nicolas

[mrudmann]

Hi,
Any update on your upgrade issue?  I am sorry I don't have an answer for you, but your issue is extremely important for the implementation of Alfresco.  I am rather new to the product, but it is critical that it has a reliable upgrade path - for the community version as well.

Please let me know if you were able to solve your issues.

Regards,
Matt

[miguel_gil_mart]

Use this script to upgrade .xml from 1.3 to 1.4. It worked for me.

#!/bin/sh
# Convert ACP XML files from 1.3 format to 1.4
# Expects input and output args
if [ "$2" = "" ]; then
   echo "The ACP XML Conversion utility needs input and output files specified:"
   echo "1-3_to_1-4 <13inputFile.xml> <14outputfile.xml>"
else
   # set the LIB_DIR value to point to the Alfresco lib directory

     LIB_DIR='/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib';
     TEMP_CLASS_PATH=$LIB_DIR/repository.jar:$LIB_DIR/core.jar:$LIB_DIR/dom4j-1.6.1.jar:$LIB_DIR/xpp3-1.1.3_8.jar:$LIB_DIR/jug.jar
   /opt/Alfresco/java/bin/java -cp $TEMP_CLASS_PATH org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.util.ImportFileUpdater $1 $2
fi
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