Re: Can't start opennms after recent upgrade

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Paolo Galtieri <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been running opennms for several days.  Today I received a
> notification on my Fedora 14 system that there was an update.  After
> updating the yum repository file I was finally able to install the
> update.  But now when I try to start it I get:
>
> [root@darkstar opennms]# service opennms start
> /etc/init.d/opennms: OpenNMS not configured.
> /opt/opennms/etc/configured does not exist.
>
> You need to run the installer to set up the database.  In most
> cases, it is enough to run:
>
>   /opt/opennms/bin/install -dis
>
> For details, see the install guide at:
>
> http://www.opennms.org/index.php/QuickStart#Initialize_OpenNMS_and_the_Database
>
>
> Why is this happening?  The database was setup when I did the original
> install. Why do I need to run the installer again?

Basically you just need to follow the instructions.   It gives the
program a chance to update the database schema - and unlike doing it
in the rpm scripts, it gives you a chance to make a database backup in
case you want to back the update out.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      [email protected]

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