What I had done was go to 20.4, then upgrade the DB as a preparation step
for continuing to 22.2. I have this time rolled back to 20.1, confirmed it
was active and then went directly to 20.5. As expected, the DB was not
compatible so I again installed and configured PostgreSQL per docs and
upgraded the database from H2->PostgreSQL.



I did run into the issue again with the git url being rejected so I’ve done
the same fix there but I’m hoping that hasn’t been removed as an allowed
feature since we do too many large repo pulls across multiple machines to
do over the internet every time.



I’m at 20.5 now and back to roughly the same place. LDAP is blowing up with
the messages after which authentication is successful but doesn’t redirect
into the dashboard.:

I went through the previous process of removing the security section from
the cruise config and adding the authorization provider back in as LDAP
without checking the box for strict access. It redirects back to login and
the loop restarts.



I’m still not getting anything that I can see logged into the database, for
example running a backup doesn’t add a record to the serverbackups table in
the database.

Is there any chance there is a required intermediate step of upgrading to
20.3 or something before going higher?



I can also try doing an H2 upgrade instead of going to PostgreSQL but that
won’t solve the DB issue, that would just be getting a DB working at all.



 I'm happy to send my support page (sanitized) if that helps.


Thanks!



*From:* go-cd@googlegroups.com <go-cd@googlegroups.com> *On Behalf Of *Chad
Wilson
*Sent:* Thursday, October 27, 2022 3:20 AM
*To:* go-cd@googlegroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [go-cd] Issues with GoCD db.properties file and LDAP after
upgrade to 20.4.



Sorry, one major thing to clarify - when you say 20.4 did you actually mean
20.5? The db migration and OSS support for postgres via
config/db.properties is only in 20.5 so if you were getting errors on
startup on 20.4, that would be unrelated to any database change.



If we stick to trying to target getting things working on 20.5.0 it might
be easier to follow what you've tried. Output from the API Aravind mentions
would be useful to avoid confusion.



-Chad

On Thu, 27 Oct 2022, 12:52 Chantry Conkle, <chant...@gmail.com> wrote:

The upgrade path was migrating from h2 to the postgresql database. It
seemed to be recommended and I was hoping for better performance.
Everything else that logs shows the full path to the file. This one only
shows what I pasted. I pulled the source code and I can find where the
error is thrown but I can't seem to find where the initial data is
pulled/stored for that path.



I can go back to h2 if that ends up being the same performance but we have
frequent pipelines running at the same time so I was hoping to head off
performance issues with the postgresql features.



It's just really odd because 20.1 was running great, 20.4 blew up on start
but didn't have any issues during the upgrade that turned out to be the
ldap failure and a git url that was a unc path to improve performance and
avoid lots of consecutive pulls from the internet repo. Removed the unc
path and oddly go seems to work fine with no Auth and no db but I'm not
sure how or why. I thought at first maybe it was false-erroring but nothing
is updated in the database although no h2 dB is being created. Is there a
way to force the path using the wrapper-properties file? I've confirmed
permissions are everyone - read-execute and other files in that same folder
are being read.



It seems like something is off with plug-ins though so I'm not sure if
that's the core issue but the articles I've seen were suggesting those
errors should be warnings. It's those getting 500 errors from the api.



I can post the debug part if the logs if that helps as well. I still don't
understand where it decides the path for that file though. It seems to be
in the source but I couldn't find the class that is referenced from other
files in the project.



I can roll back and start over but this is virtually a pure install/
upgrade with a clean setup of 20.1 that runs perfectly followed by the 20.4
upgrade, dB migration and then 22.2 upgrade. Failing at 20.4 on leap with
no settings changes was odd though. I rebuilt it multiple times and the
strict option is disabled so any Auth is supposed to be accepted.



Is there a way to increase logging or anything to provide more detail?
(Although I do have a good bit in logs already.



Thanks!



On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 10:36 PM Chad Wilson <ch...@thoughtworks.com> wrote:

Hiya



On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 8:26 AM Funkycybermonk <chant...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello!



I'm working on an upgrade path from 20.1 through 20.4 and a db migration up
to 22.2. A long path and a lot of complicated things changing. The issues
started with 20.4 and after a couple of hours of work I decided to go for
broke and push through to 22.2. It worked but didn't improve anything.



I feel like something relatively simple is going on but I am missing
something and not finding it.



I'm getting an error on service start "ConnectionManager:117 - The file
config\db.properties specified by `go.db.config` does not exist." The file
db.properties does exist in the config folder but I'm unable to see what
the path is that its looking for prior to config. My installation folder
after the two upgrade stages is still "C:\Program Files (x86)\Go Server"
and I don't know if that means something is looking in the wrong place or
not. I expected 22.2 to migrate it to "C:\Program Files\Go Server" from
reading the documentation.



GoCD 22.2.0 shouldn't have changed the install location on Windows,
especially not for upgrades. It just corrects some permissions, but
shouldn't affect you if you are installing in the default Program Files
location which it looks like. The docs might be misleading about which Prog
Files variant it goes into for various Windows types.

In any case, if the behaviour you see is/was the same between GoCD 20.5.0
(post db migration) and 22.2.0 then we can probably rule out any change for
Windows permissions as a cause of your challenges.

In your case, post-20.5.0 migration, are you trying to use a migrated
inbuilt H2 database, or a separate Postgres/Mysql install?

   - Generally speaking, if you are not trying to either override some H2
   configuration *nor* use an external DB, config\db.properties doesn't
   exist and isn't required.
   - That error message is just a warning. It doesn't mean there is a
   problem, unless you are expecting it to use it, to know how to connect to
   an external DB.
   - The path should be relative to the working directory which should be
   set by the wrapper at startup. if you want to confirm, that should be
   logged within logs\go-server-wrapper.log (search for "Working directory")
   before it launches GoCD.

Nevertheless it's weird if you have config\db.properties and it's not
working. Perhaps you can check the permissions on the file and see if there
is anything unusual, or different than, say a "known good" config that is
in the same folder, e.g config\config.xml. Assuming you are running GoCD
via a windows service with the default user account of "Local System", it
should be able to see the file.



Having said all this, I am not sure I understand what actually happens with
your GoCD server. Does it fail to start? it starts, but with a new/fresh
local file DB rather than what you expect? It's missing data that you
expect to be there?



If there are database issues, I'd have thought it might not be wise to move
to the next step of checking LDAP before ensuring database stuff is OK.....





I also have an issue with LDAP successfully authenticating and logging a
success but always sending me back to login. I have removed authentication
temporarily to let me work on troubleshooting but still haven't found a
solution.

The LDAP log shows:
2022-10-27 00:22:57,095 INFO  [Thread-79] LdapPlugin:72 - Loading plugin
null version 2.2.1-168
2022-10-27 00:22:57,231 ERROR [Thread-79] LdapPlugin:127 - Error while
executing request go.plugin-settings.get-configuration
com.thoughtworks.go.plugin.api.exceptions.UnhandledRequestTypeException:
This is an invalid request type :go.plugin-settings.get-configuration



Followed by 2022-10-27 00:23:38,205 INFO  [qtp1522792394-33] LdapPlugin:72
- [Authenticate] User `<deleted>` successfully authenticated using
auth_config: Domain-LDAP



I'm sort of wondering if something doesn't know where everything is at and
is trying to load from incorrect locations but this is the test run for an
upgrade on several systems that I can't do a clean wipe/restart on.



Unfortunately that doesn't tell us too much. :( What this looks like is a
configuration problem with the authorization config or an "unknown user";
it has authenticated the user, but the GoCD server isn't allowing that user
to login. Do you have "Allow only known users to login" in your Domain-LDAP
auth config? *If so*, is the user you are logging in as listed and enabled
in Users Management?

The allowed/permitted users and roles are persisted in the DB (or
dynamically added if that option is unchecked) so if you have issues with
GoCD connecting to the right DB it might not have loaded the previously
"allowed" users you expect - and thus maybe best to ensure the DB is in the
right state first?



-Chad

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