INFO/ERROR - Upgrade from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny

[psicopat]

Hi Forum,

Here is the daily misadventure :
Having a ZCS Network Edition 5.0.10 for Ubuntu6 under Debian Etch, I decided to upgrade to the new stable release Lenny (Debian stable 5.0).

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

Debian users/administrators know this well... When rebooting (because of new kernel version) Zimbra's services were not starting.

After reboot trying by hand :
$ su zimbra
$ zmcontrol start

/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/lib/i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi/auto/IO/IO.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr

Ouch... Zimbra seems not to like perl upgrade from 5.8.8 to 5.10.0...

Solution :
cd /var/cache/apt/archives
dpkg -i perl_5.8.8-7etch6_i386.deb perl-base_5.8.8-7etch6_i386.deb perl-modules_5.8.8-7etch6_i386.deb

Don't care about these messages
dpkg - warning: downgrading...
It's exactly what we want !

Hope this may be useful to other people. Better simply not upgrade the Perl packages

Pat.

[phoenix]

It's not a good idea to run theZimbra NE on an unsupported operating system, you invalidate your support.

[uxbod]

Please vote for Bug 34921 - Lenny Support for 6.0 (GunsNRoses) and update your profile so we know which version of ZCS you are running

su - zimbra
zmcontrol -v

[psicopat]

It's not a good idea to run theZimbra NE on an unsupported operating system, you invalidate your support.

Hi Phoenix,
As it's an open software too, I thought it would be supported at least on Debian as Ubuntu is Debian based...
So for next install we'll probably choose Ubuntu.

Thanks for information.

Regards,
Pat

[psicopat]

Please vote for Bug 34921 - Lenny Support for 6.0 (GunsNRoses) and update your profile so we know which version of ZCS you are running

su - zimbra
zmcontrol -v

Hi Uxbod,

Voted for the bug and profile was updated.

Regards,
Pat.

[phoenix]

No, the operating systems listed for NE are the only supported ones i.e. they have been tested for those specific versions. It's not that they can't be installed or won't run (as you've already shown) it's just the fact the o/s upgrades may introduce unexpected changes and cause support problems or break a Zimbra installation.