Zimbra

BarthezZ · #1 (**permalink**) 02-13-2008, 04:27 AM

Ok. This is kind of a weird situation.

I am running zimbra on a vmware server setup. I am using loose images for the OS (debian), /opt, and /home.

The image for the operating system got corrupt. Now that isn't a real big problem, debian was reinstalled and re-setup from a backup etc in a short while. After that i ran trough a zimbra installation and when that was done i just removed the /opt directory and remounted the old image with the zimbra installation.
The zimbra server etc. is working perfectly just as before, but I'm having some problems upgrading to a new version.

When i try to upgrade it does recognise a zimbra installation currently exists. But during the installation it doesn't upgrade the ldap databases etc. but just writes as if it was a new installation. So altough it recognises and does an upgrade, it actually does a new install.

What can I do to upgrade to the latest version of zimbra? The current is 4.5.(9 or 10, not sure :X )

uxbod · #2 (**permalink**) 02-13-2008, 04:30 AM

what does rpm -qa | grep -i zimbra show ?

BarthezZ · #3 (**permalink**) 02-13-2008, 04:39 AM

Well nothing as i'm using debian, which isn't a rpm based distribution.

email:~# dpkg -s zimbra-core
Package: zimbra-core
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: Mail
Maintainer: build@zimbra.com
Architecture: i386
Version: 4.5.10_GA_1575.DEBIAN3.1
Depends: libidn11, curl, fetchmail
Description: Best email money can buy

But that package is installed by the intaller script, and isn't being "used" as the opt directory was replaced by the old one.

uxbod · #4 (**permalink**) 02-13-2008, 04:56 AM

DOH!

Perhaps it may be worth shutting down Zimbra, removing /opt again, remove any zimbra package that may be installed. Checking through the deb install area and removing any remnants. Then install zimbra again, remove /opt, and mount your old one again. Or something along those lines.

BarthezZ · #5 (**permalink**) 02-13-2008, 05:03 AM

But that kind of is what i did in the first place

Ah well, luckily it's virtual and a not that essential server so i can screw around a bit with it.
Going to try

uxbod · #6 (**permalink**) 02-13-2008, 05:07 AM

Did you run a zmfixperms when /opt was remounted ? Does the /opt directory have the correct permissions. Sorry just thinking out loud what I would look at.