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mherger
Aspirant
Feb 07, 2012

Getting "Installation failed" on updates, even on success

Hi, I'm working on an add-on which is returning a generic "Failed to install addon" (ADDON_INST_FAIL) error message when I install it on top of an existing installation (update). At the same time I...
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WhoCares_
Mentor
Feb 07, 2012
mdgm wrote:
The remove script does restart apache using "killall -USR1 apache-ssl". So as suggested replace this with

apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf -k graceful


I prefer to use this:

/usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf -t && /usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf -k graceful

This makes sure that apache only gets restarted if it has a valid config. Prevents killing off Frontview ..

-Stefan

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