Upgrading Seafile from 7.0.x to 7.1.x
I’ve waiting to upgrade to Seafile 7.1 because I keep my installation manually and I wasn’t finding the *x86-64.tar.gz option to download. After asking in the forums, I discovered it’s just a change of name.
Don’t forget to read the release notes from Seafile.
Before upgrading
Reading the release notes, this version needs Python 3 and a set of modules.
Python 3
1yay -S python python-setuptools python-pip
2
3sudo pip3 install --timeout=3600 wheel Pillow pylibmc captcha jinja2 \
4 sqlalchemy django-pylibmc django-simple-captcha python3-ldap \
5 django-recaptcha django-ranged-response
Memcached
The Memcached configuration also changed in this version. I wasn’t using Memcached, so I took the opportunity to set it up.
- Installation
1yay -S memcached libmemcached
- Review the cache size to 128MB
1sudo systemctl edit memcached.service --full
1Environment=CACHESIZE=128
- Enable and start the service
1sudo systemctl enable memcached
2sudo systemctl start memcached
3sudo systemctl status memcached
- Configure seahub settings
1vi conf/seahub_settings.py
1CACHES = {
2 'default': {
3 'BACKEND': 'django_pylibmc.memcached.PyLibMCCache',
4 'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
5 },
6 'locmem': {
7 'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
8 },
9}
Upgrading
I started by stopping the services:
1sudo systemctl stop seahub
2sudo systemctl stop seafile
Then I downloaded the latest version (I use the pro version) and executed the upgrade script.
1sudo -u seafile -s /bin/sh
2
3cd /srv/seafile
4wget "https://download.seafile.com/d/xxxxxxx/files/?p=/pro/seafile-pro-server_7.1.5_x86-64_CentOS.tar.gz&dl=1" -O seafile-pro-server_7.1.5_x86-64_CentOS.tar.gz
5tar -xzf seafile-pro-server_*
6
7cd seafile-pro-server-7.1.5/
8upgrade/upgrade_7.0_7.1.sh
Upgrade failed
The upgrade script was failing with syntax errors. I thought it was something to do with the Python 3 migration, but after some digging around I found out that the problem was in the fact that my mysql password had a ‘%’ 😐
I changed the password, reviewed the configuration files to update de password, re-executed the upgrade script and… success.
1mysql -u root -p
2
3use mysql;
4SET PASSWORD FOR 'seafile_user'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('newpass');
Configuration files to review the mysql password:
- seafile.conf
- seafevents.conf
- seahub_settings.py
- ccnet.conf
Clean Seahub cache
1rm -rf /tmp/seahub_cache/
2sudo systemctl restart memcached
Review seafile webdav configuration
1cd /etc/httpd/conf
2sudo vi extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
1<Location /seafdav>
2 ProxyPass "http://127.0.0.1:8080/seafdav"
3</Location>
Starting the services
1sudo systemctl start seafile
2sudo systemctl start seahub
And… seahub didn’t start.
After much digging around I found out that the problem was in some python modules.
Some tips om how I debugged the problem:
- Looked in the forums
- Looked in the Seafile logs
- Started seahub manually to see the output
To start seahub mannualy change the daemon option in the gunicorn.conf.py file:
1sudo systemctl stop seafile
2vi conf/gunicorn.conf.py
1daemon = False
1seafile-server-latest/seahub.sh start
I had to manually remove 2 python modules and re-installed them via pip:
1sudo mv /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django_pylibmc* /tmp
2sudo mv /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django_simple_captcha-0.5.12.dist-info /tmp
3sudo pip3 install --timeout=3600 django-pylibmc django-simple-captcha
Don’t forget to change the daemon config again:
1vi conf/gunicorn.conf.py
1daemon = True
And voilá:
1sudo systemctl start seafile
2sudo systemctl start seahub