[SOLVED] workaround "fix /etc/hosts" during upgrade

[glenndm]

Hello,

Just a quick note to those who get this error during upgrade:
ERROR: Installation can not proceeed. Please fix your /etc/hosts file
to contain:... (as also mentioned here)

your /etc/hosts should not contain other host-ip addresses than your zimbra server (and localhost)
If other addresses are present, upgrade quits with error above.

As I don't know how to modify the relevant line in util/utilfunc.sh ( a perl expression), I simply commented out the other servers in the hosts file before running the upgrade.
Which ran fine. Afterwards I removed the comments.

[bonoboslr]

That is not actually the problem. The problem is if you have entries in your hosts file that are not in the format
"IP FQDN short name"
I can install with loads of entries in the hostfile other than that of the zimbra server.

[glenndm]

Ok, good to know.
Most other entries in my hosts are indeed simple short names.

[dwmtractor]

This is a known issue (nobody really seems to think of it as a bug, but it's certainly a "gotcha"). bonoboslr was correct in the statement that the issue is non-FQDN hosts entries, and your solution of commenting out the offending lines till after the install completes is the correct workaround.

I'm not quite sure why the install script cares what your other hosts entries are, to be honest, but it does!

Unless you want to pursue opening a bug on this, may I mark the thread solved?

[glenndm]

Hi Dan,
T'is too small to make a bug out of it.
consider solved.
regards
glenn

[Baylink]

No it's not.

If the installer is only concerned with whether the format of the '127.0.0.1' entry in /etc/hosts, that's all it should check.

It's a Copious Free Time thing, but if no one else wants to hang the bug, I will.

[dwmtractor]

"Copious Free Time" ???? I like the concept but have never encountered it outside the theoretical world! ;{)

Go for it on the bug tho!

[Baylink]

"Copious Free Time" is an expression for which no one seems to have been able to find an earlier usage than by Tom Lehrer in his 195...9 song "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier".

The ironic implication, of course, is that the speaker doesn't have *any*...

[bonoboslr]

I think that it is a bug and should be logged as such. Its annoying. Now that I know what the work around is, it doesn't bother me that much - but it I remember ripping my hair out over it.