Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 184048
Support upgrade from 7.1 to 1.x
Last modified: 2015-01-04 18:19:52 EST
After doing an RPM upgrade from v7.1 to v1.0.2, the setup program is run to finish the upgrade. The setup hangs like so: Converting slapd-gatekeeper.domain.com to new format password file . . . Copying new schema ldiffiles . . . Starting slapd-gatekeeper.domain.com . . . ps shows a process called "ns-update" that is hanging around doing nothing. Running all of this through strace finds that an error is thrown when the upgrade process finds that the certdb files in alias are not owned by the ldap user. Fixing the ownership problem manually and running setup again results in this: Starting slapd-gatekeeper.domain.com . . . NMC_ErrInfo: NMC_STATUS: -2 Start Slapd Starting Slapd server reconfiguration. Fatal Slapd ERROR: Ldap authentication failed for url ldap://gatekeeper.domain.com:636/o=NetscapeRoot user id admin (151:Unknown error.) Configuring Administration Server... InstallInfo: Apache Directory "ApacheDir" is missing. You can now use the console. Here is the command to use to start the console: cd /opt/fedora-ds ./startconsole -u admin -a http://gatekeeper.domain.com:390/ INFO Finished with setup, logfile is setup/setup.log (The error "151:Unknown error" boggles the brain. If the software thinks the error is unknown I shudder to think how the administrator is expected to know what the error was, but regardless...) At this point the LDAP server seems to be running correctly, but the admin server is hosed. Looking in the admin-serv/config directory, the original magnus.conf files are present, no upgrade has happened. So far it looks like upgrading from v7.1 to v1.0.2 is impossible, the only option is to reinstall the DS from scratch.
Upgrade from 7.1 is not supported. This is mainly due to the fact that the admin server is completely different in 1.x. It might be possible to get it working but I'm not sure where to begin.
Upgrading from v7.1 is probably not worth the effort in supporting, however at the very least the setup program should detect that httpd.conf (or whatever signature file belongs to the admin server) is missing, and should go through the bit of install that gets the admin server working.
Fedora DS 1.1 supports upgrade/migration from 7.1 to 1.1