{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/edx/configuration/issues/2407","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/edx/configuration/issues/2407/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/edx/configuration/issues/2407/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/edx/configuration/issues/2407/events","html_url":"https://github.com/edx/configuration/issues/2407","id":113367055,"number":2407,"title":"Various errors (and workarounds) upgrading from Birch to Cypress","user":{"login":"fisharebest","id":2306088,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2306088?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/fisharebest","html_url":"https://github.com/fisharebest","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fisharebest/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fisharebest/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fisharebest/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fisharebest/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fisharebest/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fisharebest/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fisharebest/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fisharebest/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fisharebest/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-10-26T14:23:27Z","updated_at":"2015-10-26T14:23:27Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I am upgrading Birtch to cypress, using http://edx.readthedocs.org/projects/edx-installing-configuring-and-running/en/latest/cypress.html#upgrading-from-birch-to-cypress\r\n\r\nHere are the first four errors that I encountered, and how I got past them.  Run these before starting the upgrade.\r\n\r\n```\r\n# Fixes \"fatal: Unable to create '/edx/app/forum/.rbenv/.git/index.lock': Permission denied\"\r\nsudo chown -R forum:www-data /edx/app/forum\r\n\r\n# Fixes \"msg: Failed to validate the SSL certificate for launchpad.net:443\"\r\ncd /var/tmp/configuration\r\nsudo sed -i -e 's/ansible==1.5.5/ansible==1.6.1/' requirements.txt\r\nsudo pip install -r requirements.txt\r\n\r\n# Fixes \"msg: file (/etc/update-motd.d/51-cloudguest) is absent, cannot continue\"\r\nsudo touch /etc/update-motd.d/51-cloudguest\r\n\r\n# Fixes \"msg: devpi-server: ERROR (already started)\"\r\nsudo service supervisor.devpi stop\r\n```\r\n\r\nStill stuck on #2249..."}}