I'm up to the point of migrating, and this is the command I'm running:

$ drush hostmaster-migrate MYSITE.EXAMPLE.COM /var/aegir/hostmaster-0.4-alpha10 --debug

After I solved #880660: Error during upgrade from 0.4-alpha9 to 0.4-alpha10, I ran into another issue:

The directory /var/aegir/hostmaster-0.4-alpha10 does not contain a valid Drupal installation [11.18 sec, 5.01 MB]              [error]

That seemed straightforward - I downloaded the latest Drupal to the specified directory.

Now, I have a Drupal install at the specified directory and the migrate script runs OK.
However, my crontab entry is still empty.

Did I do something terribly wrong?
I don't understand why I had to download Drupal manually.

Is there a quick fix to recreate the crontab, or do i need to re-migrate?

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aaronbauman
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Also: the alpha10 Drupal site that was "installed" via migrate returns a 404 for every page, including the home page.

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aaronbauman
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Re: #1
This was because the hostmaster profile was never downloaded, migrated, nor installed.
Therefore the site root, hosting/sites, was indeed 404'd.

Further, all of the hosting modules were disabled since they were unavailable.
JQuery Update, JQuery UI and Modal Frame were neither downloaded, migrated, nor installed.

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adrian commented
Category: support » bug

This was my fault it seems.

I have a new working alpha 11, but the workaround at the moment is :

http://groups.drupal.org/node/86354#comment-270489

that's what the migrate command is meant to be doing. The migrate command in alpha 10 didn't differentiate between pre-alpha 9 and post alpha 9 sites. Meaning it tried to do the intensive bootstrap process for the upgrade all over again.

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adrian commented
Status: Active » Fixed

this is now fixed in head.

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adrian commented

I made an alpha 11 release that contains this fix : http://is.gd/eeXP5

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adrian commented

For the site that may already have been messed up, i need you to do the following.

1) find the backup used during the migrate. it will be in the /var/aegir/backups directory. do not continue on if you arent sure you have the right one
2) Find the alias name of the old platform. Grep in your ~/.drush directory. do not continue if you arent sure you have the right one
3) shell command: crontab -r # just stop the dispatcher from running
4) shell command: drush @hostmaster provision-delete # this will delete the incorrectly migrated site
5) shell command: drush provision-save @hostmaster --platform='@platform_oldplatform' # set the platform back to the one found in step 2.
6) shell command: drush @hostmaster provision-deploy /var/aegir/mybackupfile.tar.gz # restore the backup from step 1

The end result should be that you will have your system back to what it was before you hit the hostmaster-migrate command. IE: running alpha 9 on the alpha 9 platform.

Next, you should download the new alpha 11 release's provision and run the migrate command contained in it.

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aaronbauman
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adrian, thanks for the quick response and follow up support on this.

I followed the steps above with one change:
- in step 4: substituting "@server_master" -- the alias from step 2 -- for "@hostmaster"

I am now on alpha 11 - woot!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.