Big thanks to swsoft for a solid upgrade release!

[DCoats]

I started upgrade today from 8.1 to 8.2 on freebsd5.5. First thing i noticed is that the updater deinstalled apache22 in favor of apache20, I immediately stopped the installer using ctrl+c

cd /usr/ports/www/apache22

make reinstall

Then knowing that swsoft had gone to the trouble to fix up all the freebsd port Makefiles to include apache20 and apache22
I then

vim /etc/make.conf

and added

WITH_APACHE22=yes

and re ran the installer.

./psa_installer_v3.2.0_build070710.11_os_FreeBSD_5.5_i386

The installer upgraded plesk all the way to the end with one small hitch. Upgrading the database failed with

Duplicate entry 'localhost-admin' for key 1
ERROR while trying to remove chunks from MySQL database

I had a clue what that was all about because We use both root and admin as superuser in mysql. So I

mysql -u admin -p

mysql> UPDATE mysql.user SET user='upgrade_root' WHERE user='root';

mysql> flush privileges;

mysql> quit;

./psa_installer_v3.2.0_build070710.11_os_FreeBSD_5.5_i386

the installer then finnished installing all ports without an issue. I'm extremely impressed, this is the first ever plesk upgrade I have done since 6x that has actually been error free. Thanks again swsoft! We now have Plesk8.2 with apache22 php5 mysql5 error free install from the get go.

 

[k.satirli]

I had to reimage my server after the first try and on the second try, while the update completed without a hick, the server now wont reboot.

Thought that maybe it was something I had done wrong, so I reimaged back to 8.1 and rebooted (it worked) tben update to 8.2 and it wont reboot again.

Yup, a solid showstopper.

[EDIT]

This is on SuSE 10.1, 64 bit

 

[DCoats]

What is the boot error? Where does it fail?

 

[k.satirli]

That's a great question and one that I'd love to answer, the only problem is that 1and1's rescue system overwrites boot.msg when you use it.

And since the server refuses to boot on its own after updating to 8.2, all I can do is keep it at 8.1 right now

 

[matt.simpson]

I thought I'd comment too. I did an upgrade from Plesk 8.0 to Plesk 8.2 this week and the upgrade went flawlessly.

That's the first time in a while I didn't have to do anything... I planned for 4 hours and it took me less than 1. I was happy.

~Matt

 

[k.satirli]

good to hear matt.

it turned out that my problem was related to the image that my hoster installed. no boot record was ever written and since I always reboot after updating plesk (.x releases only, not hotfixes), this kept being a problem.

other than that, 8.2 is a great release.