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Corrupted bundles and failed update 4
Has anyone had problems implementing update 4? I’ve been fighting a coldfusion 2025 install for about a week now. The problem has been some sort of issue with the packages getting updated. I’m running a windows 2019 server, in which I’ve been running coldfusion 2021 and coldfusion 2016 before that. I have turned off cf2021 and removed connectors, installed 2025, set directory and permissions, and added the IIS connectors and run the migration wizard all successfully. At this point i have a stable server, or at least I assume a stable server because its serves up pages and I can access the CFIDE. I have attempted to install update 4 via the CFIDE and also (after a full reinstall due to whatever problems are arising) through just command line and both end up just botched. I’m not savvy in the inner workings in the bundles and packages being updating and i’m learning more and more about using cfpm every day but it can’t only be me that is having this issue with applying the update or installing this version.
If anyone has any advice or has experienced this issue as well please let me know. I am probably missing, I just can’t figure what.
Has anyone had problems implementing update 4? I’ve been fighting a coldfusion 2025 install for about a week now. The problem has been some sort of issue with the packages getting updated. I’m running a windows 2019 server, in which I’ve been running coldfusion 2021 and coldfusion 2016 before that. I have turned off cf2021 and removed connectors, installed 2025, set directory and permissions, and added the IIS connectors and run the migration wizard all successfully. At this point i have a stable server, or at least I assume a stable server because its serves up pages and I can access the CFIDE. I have attempted to install update 4 via the CFIDE and also (after a full reinstall due to whatever problems are arising) through just command line and both end up just botched. I’m not savvy in the inner workings in the bundles and packages being updating and i’m learning more and more about using cfpm every day but it can’t only be me that is having this issue with applying the update or installing this version.
If anyone has any advice or has experienced this issue as well please let me know. I am probably missing, I just can’t figure what.
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There’s nothing that should be unique to update 4 in its failing for you, if that’s what you’re asking. (Had you done any previous updates to that cf2025?)
When CF updates fail, there can be various reasons. Some are easier than others to understand and resolve.
Let’s start with the most fundamental diagnostic: in the log created for the update, does it report any “fatalerrors”? The log is in a folder created for your update, under cf’s cfusion/hf-updates folder. See the log with the day and time in its name, and see the count of errors at about line 70. Is it 0?
Next, look at the bottom of that log. There’s a very long line tracking all the package file updates downloaded. Any errors there?
Third, those package updates are applied during the next cf startup, which the update causes. In the coldfusion-out.log (under cfusion/logs), find the time of that startup after the update. Review the lines tracked during that startup (could be several dozen or a couple hundred). Are there any errors?
One of those 3 places should show your error. What to do about it will depend on what you report.
Finally, after any cf update, it’s wise to stop cf, delete the cfusion/bin/felix-cache folder, then start cf. Some people have zero errors of the type above, but some of their cf processing fails until they do this last step recommended in some (but not all) of the cf update technotes.
Let us know how things go.
And if you’d rather not fight this battle (to get cf properly updated) via back-and-forth here, I could help you get it done in as little as 15 minutes in a shared desktop consulting session. You’d only pay for the time we spend, and you won’t pay for time you don’t find valuable. More at carehart.org/consulting.
The current dilemma appears to be how the system rebuilds its packages. I can get a base install loaded and functional but anytime i try to apply the update 4 via gui or command line it ultimately ends up in corrupted packages, with pieces missing. Everytime i’ve tried to delete felix-cache and restart it does the same thing. I can’t be certain if this is my server environment (permissions, slowless, AV, etc) or the patch itself. I’m trying to get this all up in running in our development environment before I attempt our production environment and I thought I had it working until i realized the PDF service manager was having issues. When I went to fix that the pieces of the puzzle all fell apart again. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled so many times at this point. I think (however not savvy at the logs) that Coldfusion finds an issue installing the update and tries to backout everything uninstalling bundles and then fails to rebuild properly. I’ll get into CFIDE but for example the datasources tab will have some error page about sql something or another. In the previous attempts I did check the log for the update and it looked all successful. Its during the startup of the service that all falls apart. Windows tells me the service times out but i understand thats normal, and while i wait sometimes it just fails to start so i manually start it again. During those failed times the logs usually show bundle errors.
Replying to @stephenb15902562stephenb15902562: Without more detail, we’re left only to guess. And trying to lay out ALL that might be amiss (and how to solve each such thing) would be voluminous.
Again I’m confident I could help you resolve this in a session together, and likely very quickly. I realize it’s “only your dev environment”, so perhaps you or your folks might balk at “paying for help with that”, but since this is your attempt prior to doing it in production that would seem to make such help justifiable. Someone else might balk that “you shouldn’t have to pay for help solving cf bugs”, but we don’t know that you’re hitting a bug.
There WILL be an explanation for why it fails, since hundreds (if not thousands) of others have done the same update successfully.
And I’ve certainly done or helped others do dozens of that very update you’re attempting. That’s why I’m confident I can help you get it done, while also identifying what’s amiss and helping you watch out for (or prevent) it on prod. Again, you won’t pay for time you don’t find valuable–and no prepayment is required. Is it worth 15 mins to give it a try together, if we fix it that quickly?
I rarely press this point. I help with free assistance here (and in the Adobe cf community forums) hundreds of times per month. This is just a situation where it will likely be resolved far faster by a hands-on approach. If it’s impossible, let us know. If you’re open to try, find and graba graba a slot (even today) via the online calendar at carehart.org/consulting.
