jira upgrade says "he directory you have selected is not a valid existing JIRA installation directory" although the directory is right

[Russel De Guzman]

jira upgrade says "he directory you have selected is not a valid existing JIRA installation directory" although the directory is right

im uprading from 4.1 to 4.4

here is the output

[root@Jira installs]# ls -al /opt/jira/
total 172
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2011-08-18 20:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-09-22 19:52 ..
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2010-09-22 19:52 atlassian-jira
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2011-03-17 02:23 backup -> /home/jirabackup
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2011-03-08 14:56 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-08-18 20:12 conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-09-22 19:52 database
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-09-22 19:52 external-source
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-09-22 19:52 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-09-22 19:52 licenses
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36864 2011-08-18 05:11 logs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 556 2010-09-22 19:52 NOTICE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3166 2010-09-22 19:52 README.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2139 2010-09-22 19:52 README.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 77824 2011-08-18 20:47 temp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-09-22 19:52 tomcat-docs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-09-22 19:52 work
[root@Jira installs]# ./atlassian-jira-4.4-x32.bin
Unpacking JRE ...
Starting Installer ...

This will install JIRA 4.4 on your computer.
OK [o, Enter], Cancel [c]

If JIRA is already installed on this machine, please read the following information carefully.
Please choose between creating a new JIRA installation or upgrading an
existing JIRA installation.
Create a new JIRA installation. [1], Upgrade an existing JIRA installation. [2, Enter]
2
Existing JIRA installation directory:
[/opt/jira]
/opt/jira
Sorry, but we are unable to automatically upgrade your version of JIRA
Finishing installation ...

please help

[Jim Birch]

The fully automatic upgrade is only from V4.3. You have to do a manual upgrade which is really new install and manually update any modified config files.

From then on you should be able to auto upgrades...

See

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+4.4+Upgrade+Notes

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Upgrading+JIRA