Notes from upgrading IBM Connections (part 3) – Non-root user install problems

August 21, 2011 Leave a comment

If you need to install Connections 3.0.1 Fix Pack as a non-root user there are a couple of additional steps that are not in the IBM Connections Wiki article Installing Fixes as a non-root user.

 
Non-root Install

To do a non-root install of the Connections 3.0.1 Fix Pack you need to change the -accessRights from admin to nonAdmin in the following files:

/opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse/silent-install.ini
/opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse/launcher.ini

 

If you don’t make this these changes and you attempt to run the install you’ll see an error like this:

Administrator privileges are required.
00:00.49 ERROR [main] com.ibm.cic.agent.internal.application.HeadlessApplication run
Administrator privileges are required.

 

How to install the Connections 3.0.1 Fix Pack as a non-root user if the initial install had been done as root

If the initial install was done as root and then ownership changed to a non-root user, as well as making sure that the <app_server_root> , the <lotus_connections_root> and the <data_directory_root> directories are owned by the non-root user you need to change ownership of the Installation manager directories, e.g.

/opt/IBM/InstallationManager/
/opt/IBM/SSPShared/
/var/ibm/InstallationManager

You also need to copy the Installation Manager registry file from :

/etc/.ibm/registry/InstallationManager.dat to
/home/<non-root user>/etc/.ibm/registry/InstallationManager.dat

 

If you don’t make these changes and you attempt to run the install you’ll see an error like this:

The Installation Manager cannot be started.The registry information does not exist or does not match with this executable.This may happen if you are trying to run Installation Manager installed by another user.
00:00.85 ERROR [main] com.ibm.cic.agent.internal.application.HeadlessApplication run
The Installation Manager cannot be started.The registry information does not exist or does not match with this executable.This may happen if you are trying to run Installation Manager installed by another user.

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Notes from upgrading IBM Connections (part 2) – Response file problems

August 21, 2011 Leave a comment

If you’re doing a silent install of the Connections 3.0.1 Fix Pack then you need to add some additional lines to the response file which should be there but are missing (unfortunately this IBM technote was not published when I encountered the issue - https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?mynp=OCSSYGQH&mync=E&uid=swg21504396&myns=swglotus )

The following lines are missing from both the response files provided with the Connections 3.0.1 Fix Pack, LC_update.rsp and LC_update_linux.rsp

 

<data key=’user.activities.new.add’ value=’false’/>
<data key=’user.blogs.new.add’ value=’false’/>
<data key=’user.communities.new.add’ value=’false’/>
<data key=’user.dogear.new.add’ value=’false’/>
<data key=’user.profiles.new.add’ value=’false’/>
<data key=’user.wikis.new.add’ value=’false’/>
<data key=’user.files.new.add’ value=’false’/>
<data key=’user.forum.new.add’ value=’false’/>
<data key=’user.mobile.new.add’ value=’false’/>
<data key=’user.moderation.new.add’ value=’true’/>

 

If you don’t add these lines and attempt the upgrade then Activities, Blogs, Communities, Bookmarks, Profiles, Files, Wikis, Forums and Mobile will not be upgraded. In the installation log ( update.log ) you will see the following entry.

 

<info>

Update results :

News updated successfully.

Search updated successfully.

Home page updated successfully.

Install results :

Moderation installed successfully.

</info>

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