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Upgrading to StoRM v1.11.20 could break connections with MariaDB

30 Apr 2021 Enrico Vianello

After the update from StoRM v1.11.19 to StoRM v1.11.20, if JVM and database are not on the same timezone, the Backend’s communication with MariaDB could start failing with the following error:

Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: The server time zone value 'CEST' is unrecognized or represents more than one time zone. You must configure either the server or JDBC driver (via the serverTimezone configuration property) to use a more specifc time zone value if you want to utilize time zone support.

This bug is tracked at STOR-1397.

The possible solutions to avoid this problem are:

  • downgrade StoRM Backend to v1.11.19 (recommended)
  • apply a workaround within MariaDB
  • install StoRM Backend v1.11.21 beta

Downgrade StoRM Backend to v1.11.19

RECOMMENDED. It’s the fastest and easy thing to do. The command:

yum downgrade storm-backend-server

should ask you to install StoRM Backend v1.11.19. Confirm and restart the service:

systemctl restart storm-backend-server

Apply a workaround within MariaDB

  1. Populate mysql.time_zone_name table

    The mysql.time_zone_name table should be empty:

     MariaDB [mysql]> SELECT * FROM mysql.time_zone_name;
 Empty set (0.00 sec)

    and global variable time_zone should be set to SYSTEM.

     MariaDB [mysql]> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'time_zone';
 +---------------+--------+
 | Variable_name | Value  |
 +---------------+--------+
 | time_zone     | SYSTEM |
 +---------------+--------+
 1 row in set (0.00 sec)

    We need to populate that table as follows:

     mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -uroot -pYOUR_MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD mysql

  2. Set default_time_zone

    Edit /etc/my.cnf.d/server.conf and add under [mysql] section add the following:

     default_time_zone = Europe/Rome

    Or choose your proper time_zone.

  3. Restart MySQL

     systemctl restart mariadb

    And check new time zone value:

     MariaDB [(none)]> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'time_zone';
 +---------------+-------------+
 | Variable_name | Value       |
 +---------------+-------------+
 | time_zone     | Europe/Rome |
 +---------------+-------------+
 1 row in set (0.00 sec)

  4. Restart StoRM Backend

     systemctl restart storm-backend-server

Install StoRM Backend v1.11.21 beta

StoRM beta repository already contains a beta version of next StoRM v1.11.21 with this error fixed. Of course beta repository is not a stable repo, so apply this in case of a testbed. We do not recommend use this rpms in a production behaviour.

Browse CentOS 7 Beta repository here.