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Thoughts on upgrading to Luminis 4.2.2

Submitted by mcwhitek on Tue, 2009-10-20 11:03

Thoughts on upgrading to Luminis 4.2.2?

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Better test the 4.2.2.0 upgrade first

Submitted by tsamlal on Tue, 2009-10-20 13:05.

I have tried to install LP-4.2.2.0 on two different test instances (Solaris 10) and  both end up inserting newlines into all html, css and jsp files, even custom ones.  I have submitted a ticket to Sungard regarding this.  Running patchcp -u to uninstall the patch does not fix the issue and sometimes makes it worse. You need to restore from backup to get rid of the newlines it would seem.

group request broken

Submitted by David on Tue, 2009-10-20 13:21.

I noticed the newlines issue when I was modifying some files after patching, but while an annoyance it didn't seem to break anything, have I missed something there?

I did notice that the page that allows users to request a new group is broken (see http://www.lumdev.net/node/3225#comment-8043), this is logged as a defect.

David

Newlines

Submitted by tsamlal on Fri, 2009-10-23 15:01.

The newlines issue gets progressively worse as you add hotfixes.  First you put in 4.2.2.0 and you end up with one linefeed per line.  After applying hotfix 4.2.2.16 I then noticed I had double newlines in every file in the system.  Appalled that it was changing even custom files that I uploaded I decided to remove the hotfix using patchcp -u.  I then had all my files with 4 linefeed between lines.  Reapply the hotfix and you get 8 linefeeds per line of text. The only way I good get my nice clean code back was to restore from backup.

So I agree, it probably does not break anything but eventually it will be impossible to debug/scan/fix any html/css/jsp files since there will be a page of linefeeds between every line of original code in all of these documents.

Anyhoo, SunGardHE is looking into it now.

Tony 

4.2.2.0 Defect

Submitted by tsamlal on Wed, 2009-10-28 04:03.

SunGardHE has taken my newlines complaint and marked it as a defect.  Hopefully they will have a fix soon. 

Newline issue fixed in 4.2.2 #26

Submitted by BeeGee on Tue, 2009-11-03 21:58.

Hi Tony,

The newline issue was addressed in 4.2.2 build #26 and is now available for download...we've moved up the recommended version for 4.2.2 hf as well.

Thank you,

-Ben 

4.22

Submitted by tsamlal on Wed, 2009-11-04 18:57.

Great Ben.  The defect has not been updated but I assume the download is the fixed version?  Is there a certain build number with it?

 

Again, thanks for the speedy turn around on this.

 

Tony 

Update

Submitted by BeeGee on Thu, 2009-11-05 15:08.

Hi Tony,

Build #26 contains the fix:   [1-80VV8W] JavaFixUrls: replace all files affected by \n bug; also fixed js-compress bug to prevent overriding. 

--Ben

Oops

Submitted by tsamlal on Thu, 2009-11-05 15:35.

I must have not seen your build number in your previous post.  Thanks for replying. I'll try that on a dev box tonight.

 

-Tony 

group request issue

Submitted by David on Fri, 2009-11-06 07:05.

Hi Ben

Is there any update on when the group request/create issue will be resolved?

David

Group request exception

Submitted by BeeGee on Fri, 2009-11-06 17:26.

Hi David,

This should now be addressed in #26 as well.  The particular exception you reported when making a group request  (The code of method _jspService--HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse--is exceeding the 65535 bytes limit.) was a result of JavaFixURLs appending a newline char into the jsp files, making them too large to handle in the httpservletresponse.  

Sorry not to have clarified this earlier...

-Ben

4.2.2.14

Submitted by vikram on Tue, 2009-10-20 23:17.

Recently tried to upgrade to 4.2.2.14 on our two Development environments (single-server, not PD) and the experience was horrible. The webserver won't start. stopcp won't stop jsvc processes and manually killing processes would make some reload. Not to mention some code (like in newChannel.xsl and the groupstudio javascripts) are pretty badly written. Add to this the irritating newlines in every jsp, html. We have Identity Management (Banner IdM) enabled however I don't think that has anything to do with this problem. Unpatching did not work either and I had to revert to 4.2.1.96 using backups. I would stay away from 4.2.2 for now.

4.2.1.96 appears to be a stable version. It also fixes a serious security flaw from earlier 4.2 versions (maybe even 4.1 and 4.0). For details check my post at www.lumdev.net/node/3225#comment-8088

4.2.2.14 Editor Problems

Submitted by smick217 on Fri, 2009-10-30 18:31.

After upgrading to 4.2.2.14, we have encountered problems with Targeted Content Manager unable to load the editor when clicking on a Sub-Section.  Also, Targeted Announcement Manager the same problem when trying to add a new targeted announcement. 

I click Portal Admin, Manage Targeted Announcements, capacity=role=admin, New Announcement.  Then the page never completely loads, giving FCKeditor errors in IE.

Has anyone else encountered these problems, or did I somehow mess up the install?

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