Fearing server upgrade

Hey,
A few times in my Arch time I've had some trouble doing a system upgrade. Sometimes something is just broken.
Now, I have a small server which I've not upgraded for quite a while, and I'm obviously worried about upgrading it.
Therefore, is there a preferable way of upgrading it? Some clever procedure? Or should I just give up because reinstalling the system would be faster?
Specifically, the kernel is 2.6.27 which should give you a sense of how long it has been - several months I guess. And it wants me to download 341 MB's of upgrades. It looks like this:
[atc@atcserver:~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace iproute with core/iproute2? [Y/n]
:: Replace atl2 with core/kernel26? [Y/n]
:: Replace man with core/man-db? [Y/n]
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Remove (3): iproute-2.6.25-1 atl2-2.0.5-2 man-1.6f-2
Total Removed Size: 1.53 MB
Targets (188): iproute2-2.6.28-1 kernel-headers-2.6.27.6-2 tzdata-2009f-1 glibc-2.9-4 attr-2.4.43-1
acl-2.2.47-2 zlib-1.2.3.3-3 cracklib-2.8.13-2 gcc-libs-4.3.3-1 db-4.7.25-2 pam-1.0.4-1
shadow-4.1.3.1-1 coreutils-7.2-1 bash-3.2.048-3 filesystem-2009.01-1 pcre-7.9-1
grep-2.5.4-1 klibc-1.5.15-1 klibc-extras-2.5-2 kbd-1.15-1 klibc-kbd-1.15.20080312-8
klibc-module-init-tools-3.5-1 klibc-udev-141-1 e2fsprogs-1.41.4-1 util-linux-ng-2.14.2-1
udev-141-1 mkinitcpio-0.5.23-1 module-init-tools-3.5-1 kernel26-firmware-2.6.29-1
kernel26-2.6.29.1-4 texinfo-4.13a-3 groff-1.20.1-2 man-db-2.5.5-1 apr-1.3.3-1
unixodbc-2.2.14-1 apr-util-1.3.4-1 openssl-0.9.8k-2 apache-2.2.11-3 glib2-2.20.1-1
atk-1.26.0-1 automake-1.10.2-1 dbus-core-1.2.4.4permissive-1 kbproto-1.0.3-2
libx11-1.2.1-1 dbus-1.2.4.4permissive-1 libcap-2.16-3 avahi-0.6.25-1 binutils-2.19.1-1
m4-1.4.13-1 bison-2.4.1-1 bzip2-1.0.5-4 run-parts-2.31-1 ca-certificates-20080809-5
libgcrypt-1.4.4-1 libtasn1-2.0-1 gnutls-2.6.5-1 libpng-1.2.35-1 libcups-1.3.10-2
openslp-1.2.1-2 libjpeg-6b-6 openjpeg-1.3-3 poppler-0.10.6-1 cups-1.3.10-2
inputproto-1.5.0-1 xextproto-7.0.5-1 libxext-1.0.5-2 libxt-1.0.5-2 ghostscript-8.64-5
cups-pdf-2.5.0-1 dash-0.5.5.1-2 libx86-1.1-2 ddcxinfo-arch-0.8-2 device-mapper-1.02.31-1
dhcpcd-4.0.12-1 dialog-1.1_20080819-1 diffutils-2.8.1-6 dmapi-2.2.9-1 dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-2
dnsutils-9.6.0.P1-2 dosfstools-3.0.1-1 ed-1.2-1 gpm-1.20.6-1 libidn-1.14-1
elinks-0.11.6-1 eventlog-0.2.9-1 fakeroot-1.12.2-2 file-5.00-1 fontsproto-2.0.2-2
freetype2-2.3.9-1 fuse-2.7.4-1 gawk-3.1.6-3 gc-7.1-1 mpfr-2.4.1-1 gcc-4.3.3-1
gettext-0.17-3 pth-2.0.7-2 gnupg2-2.0.11-1 gpgme-1.1.8-1 grub-0.97-15 libfontenc-1.0.4-2
xproto-7.0.15-1 xorg-font-utils-7.4-2 gsfonts-8.11-5 guile-1.8.6-1 gutenprint-5.2.3-1
hdparm-9.15-1 htop-0.8.1-1 hunspell-1.2.8-1 pciutils-3.1.2-1 hwd-5.4.3-1
hwdetect-2009.04-1 initscripts-2009.03-2 iptables-1.4.3.2-1 recordproto-1.13.2-2
libxtst-1.0.3-2 jre-6u13-1 less-429-1 lftp-3.7.11-1 libarchive-2.6.2-1 libdatrie-0.2.1-1
libdrm-2.4.9-1 libice-1.0.5-1 libidl2-0.8.13-1 libmysqlclient-5.1.34-1 libpcap-1.0.0-1
libsigc++2.0-2.2.3-1 libstdc++5-3.3.6-3 libthai-0.1.11-1 libtorrent-0.12.4-1
libxdmcp-1.0.2-2 renderproto-0.9.3-2 libxrender-0.9.4-2 logrotate-3.7.8-1 lvm2-2.02.45-1
mailx-8.1.1-7 make-3.81-4 man-pages-3.20-2 mcpp-2.7.2-2 mdadm-2.6.9-1 mime-types-1.0-2
mlocate-0.21.1-1 mysql-clients-5.1.34-1 mysql-5.1.34-1 nano-2.0.9-2 libnl-1.1-1
wpa_supplicant-0.6.9-1 netcfg-2.1.3-3 nspr-4.7.4-1 sqlite3-3.6.13-1 nss-3.12.2-1
ntfs-3g-2009.4.4-1 pango-1.24.1-1 rrdtool-1.3.7-1 geoip-1.4.5-1 ntop-3.3.9-2
offlineimap-6.0.3-2 openssh-5.2p1-1 pacman-mirrorlist-20090405-1 patch-2.5.9-2
php-5.2.9-3 phpmyadmin-3.1.4-1 pinentry-0.7.5-5 pixman-0.14.0-1 ppp-2.4.4-7
pptpclient-1.7.2-2 reiserfsprogs-3.6.21-1 rpmextract-1.0-3 xmlrpc-c-1.06.32-2
rtorrent-0.8.4-1 ruby-1.8.7_p72-3 rxvt-unicode-9.06-2 sdparm-1.03-2
shared-mime-info-0.60-1 slang-2.1.4-1 sshfs-2.2-1 sudo-1.7.1-1 swig-1.3.39-1
syslog-ng-3.0.1-6 tar-1.22-1 tcl-8.5.6-1 tk-8.5.6-1 unrar-3.8.5-2 vi-7.2.65-1
vim-7.2.65-1.1 vpnc-0.5.3-1 xbitmaps-1.0.1-2 xcb-util-0.3.4-1 xfsprogs-3.0.0-1
Total Download Size: 341.13 MB
Total Installed Size: 1078.22 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n
As a side question, how do you keep your system up to date? How often do you do it and is it maybe automated by some cron job?
Thank you for your time.

I agree with tomk that cronning updates is a bad idea. Pacman is a package manager, not a magical system manager with AI so you really need to pay attention to what it does, especially when it issues warnings.
Most updates are completely smooth but you should try to follow the news page and the forum to stay on top of issues. I'd recommend delaying (major) updates for at least a few days for a critical system so you can see if others experience problems with them before you commit them. Generally though you should update regularly to keep up to date with security fixes and to ensure compatibility between packages.
For what it's worth, I update my system daily and have so far not had any problems worth noting. The only time I hosed my system was the first time that I ran a full system upgrade after installing from the core iso. Being a linux noob + not paying attention = reinstallation.

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go to the appropriate pane (e.g., Users) and Select All, then choose Export, and give it a name (probably with an embedded date in case you need to do it again later)
Then use 10.9 WorkGroup Manager (available as a separate download) to Import.
When re-imported, everything worked just fine (except the passwords, which cannot be carried forward using this method). I did have to manually enable at least one service, such as File Sharing service in Server [admin], or users showed up as "not allowed" [to log in].
This entire process of getting Server 3 to work is fraught with peril, and everything converges on ONE diagnostic, "Network users can't log in". Which means you blew it, but provides no additional information about WHERE you blew it.
There do not appear to be any magic bullets. It is just a tough slog. Users who reported success after failing the first time reported they returned to fundamental principles and did all the steps over, in order, to attain success.

10.5 to 10.6 Server Upgrade - Apache Fail

Hello,
I did a server upgrade last night from Leopard 10.5 Server to Snow Leopard Server. Everything went surprisingly well aside from one issue I've detected. All my existing services are working with the exception of the Web service. It starts and I get the green light but Apache is not working. In the overview, it says web service has started but no information on Apache version or start time.
Prior to the update I had been running Apache 2.2 so I assumed everything would be happy updating the OS. When the service is off and I click on the Logs tab I see all my old logs, as soon as I start the service everything goes blank so somewhere there is a disconnect with Apache 2.
Any ideas where to start? I cloned the server to another RAID set just in case of failure plus I have my backups, I even tried deleting everything in the Apache2 folder and replacing it with my 10.5 Apache2 contents but still no luck.
A bit baffled.

I like your idea but after doing some research it appears as if the upgrade did not install somethings cause reactivating the system with the default php that ships does not work at all. I would have preferred to do it your way. I did build php ver 5.3.8 and its all working, even the ionCube module but I'm just wresting with a small issue iconv, believed to be a bug. But if I could wipe the slate clean and have everything default I would have, it's just every reference I found pertianing to the factory installation of php were not there.
My only reason for the upgrade to begin with is to support the ionCube module for an OpenRealty installation, other than that server 10.5 was working perfect for me. I would love to have it just work as 10.6 intended and working and stable as you mentioned, just not sure if its possible at this point.
Apache 2.2, PHP 5.3.8, and MYSQL are all working at the moment.
My small issue, loving this apache command,
Syntax error on line 1464 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 8 of /etc/apache2/sites/+entropy-php.conf: Cannot load /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so into server: dlopen(/usr/local/php5/libphp5.so, 10): Library not loaded: /usr/local/php5/lib/libiconv.2.dylib\n Referenced from: /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so\n Reason: Incompatible library version: libphp5.so requires version 8.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0

E-Mail problem after server upgrade

I had my email on my phone for over a year. It worked perfect... until the office upgraded the server.
After the upgrade I get the error message "Cannot get mail" "The connection to the server failed." I can access another co-workers email on my phone with the same settings, but not my own.
I have tried deleting the exchange account and setting it up again, but that didn't work. I tried deleting it, rebooting the phone, and then setting it up again.
What doesn't make sense to me is that I can access someone else's email, but not my own. It is very frustrating. The people that use Android phones are having no problems after the server upgrade.
Any suggestions?

EAT729 wrote:
Any suggestions?
Yes. Contact your IT department.

Server upgrade newbie questions

Hi Everyone!
So I work for a small-ish nonprofit and as I am researching information on what my to-be system is, I am running into a lot of questions. I have tried google-ing them with not much success. So I am hoping that all of your expertise might help
drive me in the right direction.
Mind you, I have only been with our organization for about 2.5 weeks, and it is all over the place.
Right now, we have approximately 90 PCs, both desktops and laptops, distributed around 12 counties. ~50% of these PCs are utilized by our staff, while the others are used by the general public for internet and document editing. We also have ~
30 smartphones that I need to manage at some level. I would also mention that we have PCs with XP, Win7, Vista, and Windows 8 (these PCs were all purchased by different people at different times, or donated to our organization). We are currently
transitioning to google mail, so I was also planning to use the google apps extension to integrate with AD. Right now, our local "headquarters" is where our servers are located, and the person who set our server up had installed SBS 2011. There
has been a domain setup, and all but one of the local PCs were added to it (minus the Win8 machine due to SBS limitations).
Because I am new to this, and the situation is a bit complicated (as you can see from above), I was really impressed with Server 2012 R2 because of some of the capabilities of it. The primary functions of the server are to provide a way for me to manage
all of the users (even the distributed ones), the PCs, and the devices (phones). The way that I understood this, is that DirectAccess could allow me to provide help desk support (I am the only IT person in our organization so I am wearing multiple hats),
removing the programs that were utilized by my predecessors (i.e. logmein). I am hoping that with them all added to the domain, I would also be able to ensure that they were being updated properly on a schedule. We also have multiple different
anti-virus softwares that have been deployed at different times on different OSs. I was hoping to be able to standardize this and be able to manage that as well.
So....the questions....
Because we are a nonprofit, we are members of techsoup and can get the software cheap enough, but I don't really understand the licensing, particularly the Remote desktop services CALs. How does this service differ from what I currently understand
as RDC. Do I need to get one of these CALs to be able to provide remote support to users/PCs?
How do I properly assess the software? Because I have never performed a server upgrade, or really messed with Server other than seeing the SBS console and being able to muddle through it easy enough, an I going to have issues when upgrading from SBS
2011 (backing up and redeployment)? The current Hardware is going to be on the low end of the min. sys. requirements. Is this going to be a huge issue considering the size of our organization?
Am I even on the right track?
My hope is to create a semi one time investment (for at least the next few years) so that the focus can be turned towards upgrading field equipment.
I would appreciate everyones thoughts and help (as I mentioned in the title, I am a newbie at server stuff).
Thanks in advance!

"Because we are a nonprofit, we are members of techsoup and can get the software cheap enough, but I don't really understand the licensing, particularly the Remote desktop services CALs. How does this service differ from what I currently understand
as RDC. Do I need to get one of these CALs to be able to provide remote support to users/PCs?"
Your absolute best source of licensing information and clarification is to speak with a trained Microsoft licensing specialist. You can find one by starting your search at
www.microsoft.com/licensing.
Are all these devices owned by your organization? If so, dump XP as quickly as possible. You also might want to check into Office 365 instead of google apps, unless you like the fact that google reads everything you do. The combination
of Office 365 and Windows Intune might seem like a lot of money up front, but when you consider the significant amount of management time that is simply eliminated by them, they can be quite cost-effective.
It's pretty hard to 'assess' the software without any knowledge of applications needed, usage patterns, vendors, etc. If you do not feel comfortable performing the function yourself, find a reputable local consultant to come in and assist.
. : | : . : | : . tim

SAP Content Server Upgrade from 6.3 to 6.4 & MaxDB 7.3 to 7.8

Dear Experts,
We are in planning of upgrade SAP Content server from 6.3 to 6.4 and MaxDB from 7.3 build 35 to 7.8.
For Content server upgrade is that we need to install the Content server 6.4 and install the latest MaxDB 7.8 and export and import the data.
We are on Win 2003 32 Bit and we are migrating to win 2008 R2 64 Bit.
Is it possible directly using database copy and restoring in MaxDB 7.8 version?
Or we need to use loadercli for migrating the data.
As per the SDN Link http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1649661
for content server upgrade is by replacing latest dll files at the respective dir.
Pls let me know your views and known issues.
Thank You,
Mahesh

Hello Mahesh,
In note [735598|http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/735598] you can see:
If your source version is 7.3.00 or 7.4.03, read the upgrade guide "Upgrade to MaxDB Release 7.5" or "Upgrade to MaxDB Release 7.6" on SAP Service Marketplace:
http://service.sap.com/instguides > Other Documentation > Database Upgrades > MySQL MaxDB
Regards,
Eduardo Rezende

Lion Server upgrade question.

I've been looking around for instructions on upgrading from Snow Leopard Server to Lion Server. What I've found seems odd to me; so I must upgrade "Snow Leopard Server" -> "Lion" -> "Lion Server"? I feel like I'm missing something here. However, if indeed this is correct, what happens to all of your data for the services that are only available on the server editions?

Thanks for the response. We have a handful of licenses for Lion (volume licensing), which I was previously unaware that we would need to use one for a server upgrade; so I don't want to do a "download both" action. In my case would you suspect that the proper steps would be to 1. Upgrade to "Lion" (then update), 2. Upgrade to "Lion Server" (then update)?
Did you have any issues with Open Directory when you upgraded?

TWONKY MEDIA SERVER UPGRADE

HI,
HOW I CAN UPDATE TWONKY MEDIA SERVER ? THERE ARE MANY BUGS AND THIS FIRMWARE VERSION DOESN'T SUPPORT MKV FILES .
WHY IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO HAVE THE THE COMPILED TWONKY.PKG ?
THANKS

Hello,
Thank you for the answer. I saw the post , but even if I found on Twonky web the instruction to load the unix version, I did’t find the instruction to load the application on your system.
It is needed to know what is the installation directory of previously version of twonky , what are the operation to do on your device etc.
Thank you
Camillo
Da: jasbryan
Inviato: mercoledì 6 luglio 2011 0.10
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Weblogic Server Upgrade Installer

Hi ,
Can anybody help me How can i download weblogic Server Upgrade Installer
I want to upgrade weblogic10.3.5.0 to weblogic 12c
Thanks
Bhaskar

Hi,
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24329_01/doc.1211/e24492/prepare.htm#BABFIDAB
From the above link
WebLogic Server 12.1.1 is a new major release, there is no upgrade installer for this release
You Can follow this link,it has step wise details
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24329_01/web.1211/e24497/upgrade_dom.htm#i1072877
Prior u need to install weblogic 12.1.1.0,and take backup of your existing domain.
Choose the Domain Upgrade Wizard option from the Oracle program group in the Windows Start Menu by clicking Programs > Oracle WebLogic > WebLogic Server 12c > Tools > Domain Upgrade Wizard.
Regards
Fabian

Action 15.0.0.1 of Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Upgrade.FullFarmDependentProjectDatabaseSequence failed

Hi
I try to upgrade a Project Server 2010 environment to 2013. When I run
upgrade-spprojectwebinstance
it fails with:
Action 15.0.0.1 of Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Upgrade.FullFarmDependentProjectDatabaseSequence failed
Anyone seen this error?
Thanks

Hi Xtenser
try to check the ULS log. There might be a hint, that there is a blocking job in the Project Server Queue. This can block the upgrade process.
Regards
Christoph
Christoph Muelder | Senior Consultant, MCTS, MCSE, MCT | SOLVIN information management GmbH, Germany

DBERROR after 10.4.4 Mail Server Upgrade

After 10.4.4 Server Upgrade, I was seeing some DBERROR "Jan 23 18:26:24 mailhost imap[964]: IOERROR: reading message: unexpected end of file"
Tried using "mailbfr -f ". I was still seeing DBERROR message. Afterward, I decided to manually reconfigure the mail database. It still give the same DBERROR.
It even caused the Mail.app to quit unexpectedly. Later on, I saw the below messages.
Please help!!!!
=================
Jan 23 20:29:04 mailhost imap[929]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
Jan 23 20:29:04 mailhost imap[929]: DBERROR: critical database situation
Jan 23 20:29:04 mailhost master[416]: service imap pid 929 in READY state: terminated abnormally
Jan 23 20:29:05 mailhost imap[898]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
Jan 23 20:29:05 mailhost imap[898]: DBERROR: critical database situation
Jan 23 20:29:05 mailhost master[416]: service imap pid 898 in READY state: terminated abnormally
Jan 23 20:29:12 mailhost imap[907]: IOERROR: reading message: unexpected end of file
Jan 23 20:29:30 mailhost imap[586]: idle for too long, closing connection
Jan 23 20:29:43 mailhost imap[1130]: login: [172.20.147.100] jerry GSSAPI User logged in
Jan 23 20:30:12 mailhost imap[907]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
Jan 23 20:30:12 mailhost imap[907]: DBERROR: critical database situation
Jan 23 20:30:12 mailhost master[416]: service imap pid 907 in READY state: terminated abnormally
Jan 23 20:30:30 mailhost imap[586]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
Jan 23 20:30:30 mailhost imap[586]: DBERROR: critical database situation
Jan 23 20:30:30 mailhost master[416]: service imap pid 586 in READY state: terminated abnormally
mailhost:~ root#

Trying to reconstruct for the 3rd time tonight. Using "mailbfr -f".
So far I'm seeing the following in my system.log in the middle of reconstruct:
=================
Jan 23 20:59:41 mailhost sudo: root : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/private/var/root ; USER=cyrusimap ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -p default -i
Jan 23 20:59:42 mailhost reconstruct[1651]: DBERROR: reading /Volumes/HD_13/maildb1/db/skipstamp, assuming the worst: No such file or directory
Jan 23 20:59:42 mailhost reconstruct[1651]: skiplist: recovered /Volumes/HD_13/maildb1/mailboxes.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0 seconds
Jan 23 21:11:04 mailhost DirectoryService[43]: Potential VM growth in DirectoryService since client PID: 0, has 525 open references when the warning limit is 500.
Jan 23 21:11:11 mailhost DirectoryService[43]: Potential VM growth in DirectoryService since client PID: 1651, has 525 open references when the warning limit is 500.
Jan 23 21:11:26 mailhost DirectoryService[43]: Potential VM growth in DirectoryService since client PID: 0, has 550 open references when the warning limit is 500.
Jan 23 21:11:35 mailhost DirectoryService[43]: Potential VM growth in DirectoryService since client PID: 1651, has 550 open references when the warning limit is 500.
=========================
Does anyone know what the errors mean?

Discoverer Server Upgrade

Subject: Discoverer Server upgrade
Hi,
A question on Discoverer Server upgrade. Currently we are running out Discoverer server and Datamart on the same 9i database. But now we want to move on Discoverer server to a different 10g database but keep our datamart on the old 9i DB. I was wondering if this is possible and if the work that has already being done in Discoverer will work once the discoverer server is moved to a new database. Currently we are using 3i but plan on upgrading our discoverer version to 10 g later.
Please let me know if I didn't explain the scenario properly.
Thanks.

Hi,
You won't be able to use Discoverer 3i with a 10g database.
Rod West

Snow leopard server upgrade to Mavericks server?

I have a snow leopard server it is possible to upgrade it to Mavericks server?

This support article has a lot of details.
Refer to : OS X Server: Upgrade and migration from Lion Server or Snow Leopard Server
Your existing server sounds like it is reliable, configured correctly, has reliable backups and since you only have one service running, worst case would be to recreate the shares and permissions once on new OS with a purchase and installation of Server.app 3.x from the App Store.
Cheers

Fearing server upgrade

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