Restore from completely broken installation

[axslingr]

So shall I remove apparmor from that box?

Definitely.

Lance

[empe]

Ok, removed.

Fixed DNS stuff to the "old" IP (fixed BIND9 and added additional IP to my NIC).

Now I restarted from scratch ...

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./install -u
rm -rf /opt/zimbra
./install -s
rsync -azv /opt/zimbra_last_working/ /opt/zimbra/

Then copied backup of .install_hostory and localconfig.xml which I saved before the failing dist upgrade.

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cp -a $ZIMBRA_BAK/.install_history $BASE/.install_history
cp -a $ZIMBRA_BAK/localconfig.xml $BASE/localconfig.xml

As the ldap files are sparse files my backup script used zmslapcat to save them to another directory.
So I restored these also by

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rm -rf $BASE/data/ldap
mkdir -p $BASE/data/ldap/mdb/db

rm -rf $BASE/data/ldap/config
mkdir $BASE/data/ldap/config

/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmslapadd -c $LDAP_BAK/ldap-config.bak
/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmslapadd $LDAP_BAK/ldap.bak

I assume /opt/zimbra should now be prepared to reinstall zimbra ...

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./install

But unfortunately it fails setting up ldap stuff
This is the log file

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ri Jan 25 06:23:09 2019 Operations logged to /tmp/zmsetup.20190125-062309.log
Fri Jan 25 06:23:09 2019 *** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmldapschema 2>/dev/null
Looking for LDAP installation...succeeded
Installing core schema...
Installing cosine schema...
Installing inetOrgPerson schema...
Installing zimbra schema...
Installing amavis schema...
Installing dyngroup schema...
Installing OpenDKIM schema...
Fri Jan 25 06:23:10 2019 Adding /opt/zimbra/conf/ca/ca.pem to cacerts
Fri Jan 25 06:23:10 2019 *** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcertmgr addcacert /opt/zimbra/conf/ca/ca.pem
** Importing cert '/opt/zimbra/conf/ca/ca.pem' as 'zcs-user-ca' into cacerts '/opt/zimbra/common/lib/jvm/java/jre/lib/security/cacerts'
** NOTE: restart mailboxd to use the imported certificate.
Fri Jan 25 06:23:10 2019 Upgrading from 8.8.11_GA_3737 to 8.8.9_GA_3019
Fri Jan 25 06:23:11 2019 Stopping zimbra services...
Fri Jan 25 06:23:11 2019 *** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcontrol stop
Host zimbra.empec.de
        Stopping zmconfigd...Done.
        Stopping zimlet webapp...Done.
        Stopping zimbraAdmin webapp...Done.
        Stopping zimbra webapp...Done.
        Stopping service webapp...Done.
        Stopping stats...Done.
        Stopping mta...Done.
        Stopping spell...Done.
        Stopping snmp...Done.
        Stopping cbpolicyd...Done.
        Stopping archiving...Done.
        Stopping opendkim...Done.
        Stopping amavis...Done.
        Stopping antivirus...Done.
        Stopping antispam...Done.
        Stopping proxy...Done.
        Stopping memcached...Done.
        Stopping mailbox...Done.
        Stopping logger...Done.
        Stopping dnscache...Done.
        Stopping ldap...Done.
Fri Jan 25 06:23:15 2019 done.
Fri Jan 25 06:23:15 2019 This appears to be 8.8.11_GA
Fri Jan 25 06:23:15 2019 Starting mysql...
Fri Jan 25 06:23:15 2019 *** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/bin/mysql.server start
Starting mysqld...done.
Fri Jan 25 06:23:28 2019 done.
Fri Jan 25 06:23:28 2019 Checking ldap status...
Fri Jan 25 06:23:28 2019 *** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/bin/ldap status
Fri Jan 25 06:23:29 2019 not running.
Fri Jan 25 06:23:29 2019 Checking ldap status...
Fri Jan 25 06:23:29 2019 *** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/bin/ldap status
Fri Jan 25 06:23:29 2019 not running.
Fri Jan 25 06:23:29 2019 Starting ldap...
Fri Jan 25 06:23:29 2019 *** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/bin/ldap start
Failed to start slapd.  Attempting debug start to determine error.
5c4a9d76 config error processing olcDatabase={2}mdb,cn=config: <olcAccess> handler exited with 1

Fri Jan 25 06:24:06 2019 failed with exit code: 256.
Fri Jan 25 06:25:43 2019 UPGRADE FAILED - exiting.

So I am lost again. Shame.

[axslingr]

You need to install 8.8.9 the first time. Once that's working then you can upgrade.

Lance

[empe]

You need to install 8.8.9 the first time. Once that's working then you can upgrade.

I am also surprised. But that was the installer of 8.8.9

[axslingr]

I'm afraid I don't have an answer for that issue. I'd be rebuilding my vm at this point and starting fresh.

There still seems to be some confusion with the hostname though, because your log indicates this:

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ri Jan 25 06:23:11 2019 *** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcontrol stop
Host zimbra.empec.de
        Stopping zmconfigd...Done.
        Stopping zimlet webapp...Done.
        Stopping zimbraAdmin webapp...Done.
        Stopping zimbra webapp...Done.

But earlier you said the hostname was vmd10085.contabo.host. So, check the /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname files of the failed server and make sure your restore server is exactly the same. This will not work if they aren't.

Lance

[empe]

Thank you for your patience, Lance.

My failed server shows:

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$ cat /etc/hostname
vmd10085.contabo.host

I am a bit short in time this weekend. Will retry Monday.
It really drives me cracy as I did the whole procedure already some times moving to other VPS providers.

[empe]

Hi Lance,

I finally gave up as my box is not willing to work
Purchased a commercial software to convert my messages to Outlook PST format and moved them to my new hosted server. Completely uncategorized and including SPAM
As everything is inside a folder on my new zcs I could replace the stuff if I can make it working somewhen later.

Thanks a lot for your help and all hints You gave!
Michael

[axslingr]

You're welcome. Sorry we couldn't get it working.

Lance