<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Hi Everyone,</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Today Zimbra 8.8.8 Patch 1 was released as GA: https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Releases/8.8.8/P1</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">One of the bug fixes included (35115) helps with the Zimbra High Availability open source project I've been working on developing. I'll be publishing the initial reference designs for that project very soon on its own web site. In the meantime, I deployed 8.8.8 patch 1 to begin testing in my lab environment which is running CentOS 7, with ZCS 8.8.8. The install instructions as written in the release notes for Red Hat/CentOS servers (https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Releases/8.8.8/P1#Install_the_Patch) work fine if you're running a single server install of ZCS. But, if you're running a multi-node install of ZCS, the patch install instructions in the release notes are inaccurate.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">In my lab environment, I have the following ZCS nodes provisioned:</font></div><div><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">2 x LDAP MMR nodes</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">2 x MTA nodes</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">2 x Proxy nodes</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">2 x Mailbox nodes</font></li></ul><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">If you attempt to follow the install instructions for the patch with a similar ZCS multi-node environment as noted above, you'll see a dependency failure in Yum that will prevent the patch from installing:</font></div></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><div>Error: Package: zimbra-patch-8.8.8.1.1522961836-1.r7.x86_64 (zimbra-888-patch)</div><div> Requires: zimbra-store >= 8.8.8</div><div> You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem</div><div> You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest</div><div><br></div></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This occurs because the zimbra-store package isn't installed on all of the ZCS nodes. I</font><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">nstead, what you'll need to do is on your LDAP, MTA, and Proxy nodes, or essentially any ZCS node where the zimbra-store package is NOT installed, simply run these commands:</span></div><div><ul><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">As the root user:</font></li><ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">yum upgrade (upgrades the zimbra-common-core-jar package)</font></li></ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">As the zimbra user:</font></li><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">zmcontrol restart</font></li></ul></ul></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Then, on your ZCS mailbox nodes (where the zimbra-store package is installed), follow the install instructions as written in the 8.8.8 Patch 1 release notes.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">When you get to the section in the release notes that advises running:</font></div><div><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">yum install zimbra-network-modules-ng</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">yum install zimbra-chat OR yum install zimbra-talk</font></li></ul></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">If you've already upgraded to 8.8.8, which would of course be the case if you're trying to install patch 1, the 8.8.8 install process uninstalls the zimbra-chat package & replaces it with zimbra-talk, so you only need to run:</font></div><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">As the root user:</font></li><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">yum install zimbra-network-modules-ng</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">yum install zimbra-talk</font></li></ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">As the zimbra user:</font></li><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">zmmailboxdctl restart</font></li></ul></ul><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Otherwise, all of the ZCS services appeared to start successfully following the install of Patch 1. </font><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I wasn't able to test it within my Zimbra lab environment, but I suspect the Ubuntu install instructions in the release notes need a similar clarification for multi-node ZCS installs.</span></div><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span></span><div><div><div><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br>Randy Leiker (</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">randy@skywaynetworks.com</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">)</span></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Skyway Networks, LLC</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">1.800.538.5334</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">/</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">913.663.3900 Ext. 100</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><a href="http://www.skywaynetworks.com" target="_blank">https://www.skywaynetworks.com</a><br></div></div></div><span></span><br></div></div></body></html>