Upgrading Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 with Zimbra 7 installed

[halfgaar]

Hi,

I'm about to upgrade Zimbra to 7. I'll follow the upgrade notes in the release notes and I don't expect any problems.

Zimbra 7 also has support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Can I simply upgrade Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 after having upgraded to Zimbra 7 (I'll make backups/ LV snapsnots of course)?

[halfgaar]

Nobody? I upgraded to 7.1 successfully, but the Ubuntu upgrade remains to be done.

[stegbth]

hi halfgaar,

i upgraded from ubuntu 6.06 over 8.04 to 10.04 this weekend, see my success-story.

there i made a step on zimbra 6.0.12 as this is also available for ubuntu 6.0.6.
I do not assume this is different, if using 6.0.12.
so i did:
- stop zimbra
- move /etc/init.d/zimbra away
- do-release-upgrade
- install sqlite3 and libperl5.10 (if not done)
- install Zimbra 6.0.12 Ubuntu 10
- install zimbra 7.1.0 ubuntu 10

when doing snapshots take care you have the volume-names in your fstab.
my upgrade "migrated" my fstab for using UUID.
The system will mount the snapshot instead of the real filesystem.

As snapshots are now writable by default, it will not bring an error until the snapshot is full.

best regards
thomas

[bertie_uk]

Followed stegbth's method to upgrade Ubuntu 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS, Zimbra 7.0 to 7.1

However;

the Ubuntu do-release-upgrade lost my ethernet bond config so had to visit the data center to fix, (don't know why)

and the Zimbra 7.1 install failed at the Verify Message Store step with a "undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr" perl error. Choosing not to verify allowed the install to complete. Couldn't find anyone else having this exact issue, so not sure why.

[stegbth]

hi bertie_uk,

the bond problem i think i read in the release notes from 8.04 or 10.04, thought in 8.04.

but i had not such a problem.

the checkerror i had not.

but your 7.1.0 is running now? btw. 7.1.1 is out now.

best regards
thomas

[halfgaar]

I still should upgrade my Ubuntu (and Zimbra 7.1.1). But seeing this here gives me confidence, provided I don't get the Perl error

[AnAmigian]

Hi bertie_uk,

Did you get zimbra working?

I did upgrade an Ubuntu 8.04 x64 with a working Zimbra 7.1.3_P1.

Now I get the same error e.g wenn I try to run zmcontrol

Is there a solution?

Regards
AnAmigian

[gruad23]

As far as I recall I did the following to upgrade ubuntu:

1) upgrade zimbra to newest version 8.04
2) stop zimbra and make a full backup (tar czvf backupfile /opt/zimbra or something like that)
3) upgrade ubuntu to 10.04
4) download newest zimbra 10.04 and install it

I would not skip the verify-message-store but trace down the perl-error. perl-stack-something-error sounds bad to me. Probably some perl-modules missing or out of date.

Perlmodules installed with cpan might turn problematic when upgrading ubuntu. So just look at the zimbra-prerequistes for perl-modules and reinstall/update these modules after ubuntu-upgrade. The commandline-tool to handle perl-modules is called cpan.


hope this helps,

[halfgaar]

1) upgrade zimbra to newest version 8.04

You mean Ubuntu? That seems like an Ubuntu version number, plus Zimbra is at 7.1.3 right now.

4) download newest zimbra 10.04 and install it

You had already upgraded Zimbra at this stage, right?

[gruad23]

Sorry. Should have make myself more clear. A Zimbra-build always exists in two versions: one for ubuntu 10.04 and one for ubuntu 8.04

so "newest zimbra 8.04" refers to the newest zimbra build for ubuntu 8.04, while "zimbra 10.04" refers to zimbra build for ubuntu 10.04.

So I should have posted my list like this:

1) upgrade zimbra to newest version for ubuntu 8.04
2) stop zimbra and make a full backup (tar czvf backupfile /opt/zimbra or something like that)
3) upgrade ubuntu to 10.04
4) download newest zimbra for ubuntu 10.04 and install it

peter