Troubleshooting a MobileFirst Server upgrade with Derby as the database

If IBM MobileFirst Platform Application Center is installed and uses Apache Derby as a database, stop the application server that runs the application before running IBM Installation Manager to upgrade a IBM MobileFirst Platform Server installation.

During an upgrade of MobileFirst Server, if Application Center is installed, the installer migrates the database used by Application Center. When Apache Derby is the database, this operation can fail if the application server that runs Application Center is not stopped.

The symptom of this problem is that the upgrade fails and the log file contains the error message Another instance of Derby may have already booted the database.

Before you run IBM Installation Manager to upgrade an installation of MobileFirst Server and Application Center, stop the application server that runs the Application Center application.

Parent topic: Troubleshooting