[SOLVED] Upgrade issues (4.5.10GA to 5.0.2GA on Ubuntu 6.06)

[marlow]

Hi,

I just thought, this might be interesting to some.

We're running 4.5.10 Network Pro and trying to upgrade to 5.0.2 failed miserably.

First of all, the way, the server is a trial-server and the setup is a bit uncommon.

Main harddrive is /dev/hda3, the drive for opt and a few other bits is /dev/hdc1

/opt is symlinked to /media/hda3/opt

When i started the upgrade, Zimbra uninstalls the old components and starts installing the new ones, but even worse, it decides to remove the /opt symlink and installs the upgrade on /dev/hda3.

Suddenly the store and all configuration files are missing because of that behaviour.

My workaround for this was do a "mount -o bind" instead of a symlink, but really, Zimbra should not tamper with symlinks below /opt/zimbra, especially when there is other software installed in the /opt file structure.

/Martin

[phoenix]

Bug 14725 - Installer fails to follow and destroyes symbolic links

[marlow]

Thanks

I didn't have the time to check the bugtracker. The temporary fix with mount -o bind does the job.

/Martin