Upgrade to 3.5.17 (interim step to 4.2) from 3.4.6 - fails during LDAP validation

[Theresa Adams]

We are trying to upgrade to 4.2 from 3.4.6. I'm just starting the 3.5.17 part of the upgrade. I've copied our atlassian-user.xml and osuser.xml to the ../classes/ directory

Also, we duplicated our production into a dev environment. BUT - the production DB was mysql 5.1, the dev DB is mysql 5.5 - I did a dump and restore into that. That seems to be fine (i just randomly looked thru the db tables)

The following is an excerpt from the file. I've attached atlassian0user.xml

2012-08-09 12:29:31,722 ERROR main confluence.user.migration.LdapRepositoryConfigurationMigrator validateOptionalDistinguishedName Property securityPrincipal is not a valid distinguished name: Failed to parse DN; nested exception is org.springframework.ldap.core.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 1, column 9. Encountered: @ (64), after :

2012-08-09 12:29:31,723 INFO main confluence.user.migration.AtlassianUserMigrator validate validated repository ldapRepository with com.atlassian.confluence.user.migration.LdapRepositoryConfigurationMigrator@4631ca2b

2012-08-09 12:29:31,723 INFO main confluence.user.migration.AtlassianUserMigrator validate validated repository hibernateRepository with com.atlassian.confluence.user.migration.HibernateRepositoryConfigurationMigrator@6ecff10d

2012-08-09 12:29:31,747 ERROR main atlassian.confluence.upgrade.UpgradeLauncherServletContextListener contextInitialized Upgrade failed, application will not start: Upgrade task com.atlassian.confluence.upgrade.upgradetask.AtlassianUserToEmbeddedCrowdConfigurationUpgradeTask@264ab70a failed during the VALIDATION phase

com.atlassian.confluence.upgrade.UpgradeException: Upgrade task com.atlassian.confluence.upgrade.upgradetask.AtlassianUserToEmbeddedCrowdConfigurationUpgradeTask@264ab70a failed during the VALIDATION phase

at com.atlassian.confluence.upgrade.AbstractUpgradeManager.executeUpgradeStep(AbstractUpgradeManager.java:205)

at com.atlassian.confluence.upgrade.AbstractUpgradeManager.validateUpgradeTasks(AbstractUpgradeManager.java:140)

at com.atlassian.confluence.upgrade.AbstractUpgradeManager.upgrade(AbstractUpgradeManager.java:70)

at com.atlassian.confluence.upgrade.impl.DefaultUpgradeManager.upgrade(DefaultUpgradeManager.java:140)

at com.atlassian.confluence.upgrade.UpgradeLauncherServletContextListener.contextInitialized(UpgradeLauncherServletContextListener.java:28)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4205)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4704)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)

2012-08-09 12:29:31,752 ERROR main atlassian.confluence.upgrade.UpgradeLauncherServletContextListener contextInitialized 1 errors were encountered during upgrade:

2012-08-09 12:29:31,753 ERROR main atlassian.confluence.upgrade.UpgradeLaunch

[Deleted user · Accepted solution]

What does the following line look like in your atlassian-user.xml file:

<securityPrincipal>cn=Administrator,cn=Users,dc=XXXX,dc=com</securityPrincipal>

Based on the error you mat have some incorrect information on that line.

Also, look and see if you have "securityPrincipal" listed any where else in that file.