Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

Joel_Bergmark · September 9, 2016, 8:34am

Hello everyone,

Just want to ask if anyone have upgraded from Ubuntu server 14.04 LTS to 16.04.1 LTS, and if RT broke because of it?

Done this on a different server and got plenty of issues with other services (Mostly because php7).

Regards, Joel

Pavneet_Arora · September 9, 2016, 11:14am

Exactly my problem as well. Still haven’t found a resolution to recovering a working Rt on 16.04.1. Did a fresh install of Perl using Perlbrew, and even did a fresh install of Rt 4.2.10 as well as 4.4.1 in test environment. Still the same issues with the fastcgi server not staying up. I am thinking that it is something in the apache2(.4) set up?

I was able to solve the PHP issues with a side by side installation of php5.6 and php7.0. All of our other applications seem stable.

Jim_Brandt · September 9, 2016, 1:05pm

Maybe something with the FastCGI configuration? If you’re using
mod_fastcgi, you might consider converting to mod_fcgid since that
appears to be supported by Apache now. If you switch, note that they did
update the names of all of the directives, so use the names for the
version of Apache you’re running:

https://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/mod/mod_fcgid.htmlOn 9/9/16 7:14 AM, Pavneet Arora wrote:

Exactly my problem as well. Still havenï¿½t found a resolution to
recovering a working Rt on 16.04.1. Did a fresh install of Perl using
Perlbrew, and even did a fresh install of Rt 4.2.10 as well as 4.4.1 in
test environment. Still the same issues with the fastcgi server not
staying up. I am thinking that it is something in the apache2(.4) set up?

I was able to solve the PHP issues with a side by side installation of
php5.6 and php7.0. All of our other applications seem stable.

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*Subject: *[rt-users] Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

Hello everyone,

Just want to ask if anyone have upgraded from Ubuntu server 14.04 LTS to
16.04.1 LTS, and if RT broke because of it?

Done this on a different server and got plenty of issues with other
services (Mostly because php7).

Regards, Joel

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Scott_Boland · September 9, 2016, 8:52pm

We went from a server running 14.04 to 16.04.1. It took some work but it
is running. The final solution was:

Dump of the database
Completely clean install and set up of RT on the new server (from RT
directly, not from a repository). I tested this and saw it worked. The
old server had RT set up to use mod_perl2. We now use mod_cfgid which
seemed to be the default.
Restored the database. In our case we went from RT 4.0.x to RT 4.4.1
so at this point I used the steps to upgrade the DB.

Things are working well so far. I hope this helps

Dippery_Kyle · September 12, 2016, 3:27pm

I had to install a bunch of perl modules after the upgrade. (Probably
“make fixdeps” or reinstalling RT would have done the same, more
quickly, but I’m kind of stubborn sometimes. Also this wasn’t our
production server so I had some freedom to just poke at it and figure
out what it needed.)

The ones I installed via apt-get (some installed other dependencies of
their own, that I didn’t bother to record):

ï¿½ libdatetime-perl
ï¿½ libexception-class-perl
ï¿½ libdbix-searchbuilder-perl
ï¿½ libregexp-common-perl
ï¿½ libregexp-common-net-cidr-perl
ï¿½ librole-basic-perl
ï¿½ libemail-address-perl
ï¿½ libemail-address-list-perl
ï¿½ libscope-upper-perl
ï¿½ libdata-guid-perl
ï¿½ libtext-template-perl
ï¿½ libhtml-formattext-withlinks-perl
ï¿½ lIbhtml-formattext-withlinks-andtables-perl
ï¿½ libhtml-scrubber-perl
ï¿½ libjson-perl
ï¿½ libcrypt-eksblowfish-perl
ï¿½ libtext-password-pronounceable-perl
ï¿½ libregexp-ipv6-perl
ï¿½ libnet-cidr-perl
ï¿½ libtext-wrapper-perl
ï¿½ libhtml-mason-psgihandler-perl
ï¿½ starlet
ï¿½ libapache-session-perl
ï¿½ libnet-ip-perl

Most of which I found by trying to run the rt-server script from a
command line and translating the missing perl module to the ubuntu
package name.

Hope this helps…

Cheers,
KyleOn 09/09/2016 07:14 AM, Pavneet Arora wrote:

Exactly my problem as well. Still havenï¿½t found a resolution to
recovering a working Rt on 16.04.1. Did a fresh install of Perl using
Perlbrew, and even did a fresh install of Rt 4.2.10 as well as 4.4.1
in test environment. Still the same issues with the fastcgi server not
staying up. I am thinking that it is something in the apache2(.4) set up?

I was able to solve the PHP issues with a side by side installation of
php5.6 and php7.0. All of our other applications seem stable.

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*Subject: *[rt-users] Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

Hello everyone,

Just want to ask if anyone have upgraded from Ubuntu server 14.04 LTS
to 16.04.1 LTS, and if RT broke because of it?

Done this on a different server and got plenty of issues with other
services (Mostly because php7).

Regards, Joel

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Pavneet_Arora · September 12, 2016, 7:20pm

Thanks, I’ll give that a try although the shell command on my server is giving a different error. Will post output once I have ssh access.

I have tried reinstalling 4.2.10 and fresh installing 4.4.1 with no change in behaviour. Fixdeps run in both cases. Also, debug log (rt.log) works for installation, but not for browser requests pointing, I think, to an issue with the upgraded Apache config. At this point, I think that it is a cgi issue but haven’t yet had a chance to swap out for mod_fcgid.

Regards.

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Please excuse my brevity.

Pavneet_Arora · September 12, 2016, 9:51pm

This is the error that I am getting on the command line. If anyone has any insights, I would be most grateful before I dive into the switch to mod_fcgid with apache2 tonight:

/opt/rt4/sbin/rt-server.fcgi -processes 5 -idle-timeout 300

STDIN is not a socket, and no --listen, --socket, or --port provided

Thanks.

Pavneet Arora
m: +1 (647) 406-6843
e: pavneet_arora@waroc.com

Landon_Stewart2 · September 12, 2016, 10:12pm

This is the error that I am getting on the command line. If anyone has any insights, I would be most grateful before I dive into the switch to mod_fcgid with apache2 tonight:

/opt/rt4/sbin/rt-server.fcgi -processes 5 -idle-timeout 300

STDIN is not a socket, and no --listen, --socket, or --port provided

Can you paste the full apache config for this site? What does the apache error log say for this site?

Pavneet_Arora · September 12, 2016, 10:32pm

Apache2 config unchanged from before the upgrade to 16.04.1 (host name and alias obscured):

Tell FastCGI to put its temporary files somewhere sane; this may

be necessary if your distribution doesn’t already set it

#FastCgiIpcDir /tmp

FastCgiServer /opt/rt4/sbin/rt-server.fcgi -processes 5 -idle-timeout 300

<VirtualHost *:80>
### Optional apache logs for RT
# Ensure that your log rotation scripts know about these files
ErrorLog /opt/rt4/var/log/apache2.error
TransferLog /opt/rt4/var/log/apache2.access
LogLevel debug

    AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

    ScriptAlias / /opt/rt4/sbin/rt-server.fcgi/

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName <rt-host>
    ServerAlias <rt-host-alias>
    DocumentRoot /opt/rt4/share/html

    <Location />
            <IfVersion >= 2.4> #
                    Require all granted
            </IfVersion>
            <IfVersion < 2.4>
                    Order allow,deny
                    Allow from all
            </IfVersion>

            Options +ExecCGI
            AddHandler fcgid-script fcgi
    </Location>

    ## ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    ## LogLevel warn

    ## CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

And the output of /opt/rt4/var/log/apache2.errors:

[Mon Sep 12 17:44:47.246047 2016] [authz_core:debug] [pid 6242] mod_authz_core.c(809): [client 99.230.197.137:53085] AH01626: authorization result of Require all granted: granted
[Mon Sep 12 17:44:47.246137 2016] [authz_core:debug] [pid 6242] mod_authz_core.c(809): [client 99.230.197.137:53085] AH01626: authorization result of : granted
[Mon Sep 12 17:44:47.246472 2016] [authz_core:debug] [pid 6242] mod_authz_core.c(809): [client 99.230.197.137:53085] AH01626: authorization result of Require all granted: granted
[Mon Sep 12 17:44:47.246509 2016] [authz_core:debug] [pid 6242] mod_authz_core.c(809): [client 99.230.197.137:53085] AH01626: authorization result of : granted
[Mon Sep 12 17:49:47.323439 2016] [fastcgi:error] [pid 6242] [client 99.230.197.137:53085] FastCGI: comm with server “/opt/rt4/sbin/rt-server.fcgi” aborted: idle timeout (300 sec)
[Mon Sep 12 17:49:47.323532 2016] [fastcgi:error] [pid 6242] [client 99.230.197.137:53085] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server “/opt/rt4/sbin/rt-server.fcgi”

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paulororke · October 5, 2017, 9:18pm

I ran a fresh install on a shiny new 16.04 LTS and it all worked with fcgi once I installed the right packages make fixdeps resolved all dependencies.

Essentially I did:

Base install choosing roles ssh server and LAMP server.
Install packages. I want GD and Graphviz. I had SSL dependency issues that needed libssl-dev:

root@RT:~# apt install build-essential make libgd-perl libgraphviz-perl libssl-dev libapache2-mod-fastcgi libclass-dbi-mysql-perl

Set up CPAN:

root@RT:~/rt-4.4.2# /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell

and after that make fixdeps completed without error and so too the rest of the install.