[SOLVED] OpenHAB 2 Update issue

Jensen · January 23, 2017, 1:07pm

Hi,

since a few weeks i have an issue with updating my system. I am running a manual installation on an debian server. I am updating according to docs.openhab.org with renaming the “/opt/openhab” folder to an backup folder and unziping a new one. After that i copy conf and unserdata from the backup.

But although the binaries are up to date:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15989 Jan 21 12:35 karaf

i get this banner:

2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
Build #688

First i thought it is some issue with the start script, but even if i start manually with start.sh or /runtime/bin/start i get the #688 banner.

Any ideas what i can further check?

Thanks, Jens

ThomDietrich · January 23, 2017, 1:13pm

Hey @Jensen,
these instructions are not perfectly complete, some files in userdata need to be replaced. I’ve spent more efforts to update the package repository installation instructions. A path you should definitely consider!

If you still want to do a manual installation, please check the more complete instructions here: http://docs.openhab.org/installation/windows.html

ThomDietrich · January 23, 2017, 2:03pm

One more detail: It was already discussed, that it would be great to have update scripts for zip-file based installations, served inside the zip. If you or whoever is reading this are experienced in bash/batch scripting and want to take that task on, let us know

Jensen · January 23, 2017, 2:23pm

Hi Thom,

thank you very much, i will consider changing to package repository.

Jens

Jensen · January 23, 2017, 3:09pm

Issue is solved. I moved to package repository.

sihui · January 23, 2017, 4:40pm

Wouldn’t that be a nice job for @xsnrg?

github.com

xsnrg/OpenHAB2-tools/blob/master/makeHAB

#!/bin/bash
#
# This script will update your OpenHAB 2 installation.
# The script assumes that the OpenHAB 2 is already installed.  Please shut it down and then run the script
# If OpenHAB 2 is not already installed, create the directories ahead of time, and it will install OpenHAB 2
#
# This script will also update or install Smarthome Designer if desired.  Please make sure your work is saved
#  before updating.
#
# v2.3 updated for OpenHAB version number changes
# v2.2 updated for OpenHAB version number changes
# v2.1 some files in userdata/etc need to be removed to support updates to karaf
# v2 Greatly simplified for the new OpenHAB2 Karaf online distribution
# v1.1 Jim Howard
#

#The SNAPSHOT version to pull from cloudbees
vHAB=2.4.0
# The location for archive downloads
DOWN="/opt/DOWN"

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HolgerL · January 23, 2017, 4:43pm

@ThomDietrich:

I did what is written in the Windows installation link to update to the current 2.0 Release and I failed. System was not running at all and stopped with an error. triede several times. Then I resored the backup.

What worked is to delete only the userdata/tmp and /cache, I left alone the other files.
Then overwrite the runtime folder with the new runtime.
This works fine. On the first start it seems not to load the sitemap, one restart and everything is fine.

xsnrg · January 25, 2017, 5:07pm

I try to keep the script up to date with any changes nearly daily. (there have been a lot lately). As of yesterday, it is working again with the latest snapshot builds (2.1.0). It can be included with the distribution .zip if the powers that be desire it.

Thanks for the mention.