Troubleshooting: VMware installer failed to finish TeamForge 8.1 installation

When your TeamForge 8.1 upgrade process on VMware fails during the post-install phase, it may have been unable to configure the installation properly. Try these manual steps to recover.

Execute these steps from a command line terminal inside the VMware player.
  1. Set the permissions for the branding repository.
    • chown -R apache:apache /opt/collabnet/teamforge/var/overrides
    • chown -R apache:apache /sf-svnroot
  2. Replace the automatic configuration script.
    • cd $UPDATE_DIR (UPDATE_DIR=location where vmware updater is extracted)
    • cp -f configure-teamforge.py /root/configure-teamforge.py
  3. Replace the static HTML content.
    • cd $UPDATE_DIR
    • 'cp' $UPDATE_DIR/static-content/index.html /var/www/html
    • 'cp' $UPDATE_DIR/static-content/logo.gif /var/www/html/static_files/
    • 'cp' $UPDATE_DIR/static-content/static.htm /var/www/html
    • 'cp' $UPDATE_DIR/static-content/c.css /var/www/html/static_files/
    • 'cp' $UPDATE_DIR/static-content/initial_tasks.png /var/www/html/_i/
    • 'cp' $UPDATE_DIR/static-content/launch.gif /var/www/html/_i