Upgrade to 4.0.3 on Suse 9.3

[winne27]

I upgraded Zimbra OpenSource from 3.1.x to 4.0.3 on a Suse 9.3 system.

In the upgrade process I got two very serious error messages, but after first panic they could solved very easily.

The first problem was the message:

You appear to be installing packages on a platform different
than the platform for which they were built

This platform is UNKNOWN
Packages found: zimbra-core-4.0.3_GA_406.SuSEES9-20061016141055.i386.rpm
This may or may not work


Sleeping one night and I did it anyway - and it works!!

The second problem was after a long working of the upgrade process the message:

Fri Oct 20 19:14:26 2006: Migrating ldap data
Fri Oct 20 19:14:36 2006: Checking ldap status
Fri Oct 20 19:14:37 2006: Starting ldap
Fri Oct 20 19:14:44 2006: ldap startup failed with exit code 1
UPGRADE FAILED - exiting

Uuups - frustrated - ....

Why not try as zimbra user the command "zmcontrol start" ?

The next error message come up:

Starting ldap...Done.
FAILED
sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0440, should be 0640
ERROR - failed to start slapd

Uuups - what - yes - change mode of /etc/sudoers to 0640 - zmcontrol start

Every thing works perfect !!!!

[dwill]

I am about to do some experimenting on a test box / unsupported OS as well - I think it great that you post your experience and resolution, I'll do the same if I can get mine to work

[jholder]

Glad it's working.
Let us know how it goes.

[winne27]

The problem with /etc/sudoers is a known problem. See bug #8315.

I reinstalled the whole system and opened a second terminal. In this terminal I controlled the mode of /etc/sudoers. It was changed several times during installation to 440.

It is importend that after all rpm packages are installed and before the installation process will start ldap to change the mode of /etc/sudoers to 640.

chmod 640 /etc/sudoers (in the second terminal)

With this workarround the upgrade process was finished successfully.