topic Re: Ubuntu 8.04 in Alfresco Archive

Ubuntu 8.04

leetcharmer — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:08:27 GMT

Has anyone installed Alfresco Enterprise 2.2.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 yet? I've been trying but here are my errors when I try to run the alfresco script as stated http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Alfresco_on_Ubuntu_7.10:administrator@alfresco:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/alfresco startStarting OpenOffice se

Re: Ubuntu 8.04

dinger — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:12:16 GMT

Have you tried

iptables -h‍

? You should be able to see if the command in the script is not valid anymore.

Looks like java home isn't set up properley? What happens when you run

echo $JAVA_HOME‍

Rob

Re: Ubuntu 8.04

vivi — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:40:45 GMT

Hello,

I also try to install Alfresco (but alfresco-community-tomcat-2.1.0.tar.gz) on ubuntu server 8.04 following the tutorial for ubuntu 7.10 (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Alfresco_on_Ubuntu_7.10).

With this ubuntu, the java version is:
java version "1.6.0_06"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_06-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 10.0-b22, mixed mode)

with Openoffice 2.4

When I launch the script given at the end of the tutorial, I also get the same messages as reported earlier.

There is a problem with JAVA_HOME, with the X-server (maybe due to the Openoffice version?) and with iptable…
I have tryied to declare JAVA_HOME in different files such as /etc/profile, ~/.bashrc, /etc/environment with the same result when I execute the script.

How can we solve the problem?
Does anyone has already managed to install Alfresco on ubuntu 8.04?

Re: Ubuntu 8.04

leetcharmer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:52:55 GMT

Have you tried
iptables -h‍
? You should be able to see if the command in the script is not valid anymore.

Looks like java home isn't set up properley? What happens when you run
echo $JAVA_HOME‍
Rob

administrator@alfresco:~$ echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06‍‍

also according to the man page for iptables and the help tool via iptables -h, it shows -t is still a legit use of iptables. So, not quite sure how to debug their script.

Here's a copy of the script for easy viewing:

#
# Alfresco init script for Ubuntu
# 2 nov 2007 Joost Horward
#

export ALFRESCO_HOME=/opt/alfresco
export CATALINA_BASE=/opt/alfresco/tomcat
export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/alfresco/tomcat
export PIDFILE=/var/run/alfresco
export LOGFILE=/var/log/alfresco/alfresco.log

# Set any default JVM values
export JAVA_OPTS='-Xms128m -Xmx512m -server -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/lib/alfresco/tmp'


cd "$ALFRESCO_HOME"

# 
# redirect FROM TO PROTOCOL
# setup port redirect using iptables
redirect() {
   echo "Redirecting port $1 to $2 ($3)"
   iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d localhost -p $3 –dport $1 -j REDIRECT –to-ports $2
   iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $HOSTNAME -p $3 –dport $1 -j REDIRECT –to-ports $2
   iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d $HOSTNAME -p $3 –dport $1 -j REDIRECT –to-ports $2
}

#
# setup_iptables
# setup iptables for redirection of CIFS and FTP
setup_iptables () {

   echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
   # Clear NATing tables
   iptables -t nat -F
   # FTP NATing
   redirect 21 2021 tcp

   # CIFS NATing
   redirect 445 1445 tcp
   redirect 139 1139 tcp
   redirect 137 1137 udp
   redirect 138 1138 udp
}

#
# start_openoffice
#
start_openoffice(){
   sudo -H -u alfresco xvfb-run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" -nologo -headless -nofirststartwizard &
}

case $1 in
start)
   if [ -f $PIDFILE ] ; then
      echo "Alfresco is already running!"
      exit 1
   fi
   touch $PIDFILE
   echo "Starting OpenOffice service …"
   start_openoffice

   echo "Setting up iptables …"
   setup_iptables   

   echo "Starting Alfresco …"
    echo  -e "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n`date` Starting Alfresco …" >>$LOGFILE
    sudo chown alfresco:alfresco $LOGFILE

   sudo -H -u alfresco sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
        ;;
stop)  
   sudo -H -u alfresco sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
   killall -w -u alfresco
        echo  -e "`date` Stopping Alfresco …" >>$LOGFILE
   rm $PIDFILE
        ;;
restart)
   rm $PIDFILE
   sudo -H -u alfresco sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
   killall -w -u alfresco
     echo  -e "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n`date` Restarting Alfresco …" >>$LOGFILE
   sudo -H -u alfresco sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
   touch $PIDFILE
        ;;
zap)
   echo "Zapping $PIDFILE …"
   rm $PIDFILE
   ;;
*)
   echo "Usage: alfresco [start|stop|restart|zap] [tail]"
   exit 1
   ;;

esac   

case $2 in 
tail)
   tail -f $LOGFILE
   ;;
esac


exit 0‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Re: Ubuntu 8.04

louish — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:19:06 GMT

Hi All.

I'm having an issue installing the community version (latest) on Ubuntu 8.04. I've set the JAVA_HOME and echo $JAVA_HOME displays the following.
$ echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin

What happens is that after extracting afresco to /opt/alfresco. I run ./alfresco.sh… And nothing happens. I just get a blinking cursor. What am I missing?

TIA
Louis

Re: Ubuntu 8.04

leetcharmer — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:23:17 GMT

I don't think Alfresco will work with the openJDK version of Java.

Re: Ubuntu 8.04

christianm — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:40:34 GMT

Hi,

I found in http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1719605 a work around about this problem. I replaced the alfresco.sh script and modified the variable for Java and working fine, I hope this script make help full:

PD: Special thanks to the Ubuntu Forum France 🙂 for the post

#!/bin/sh
# Start or stop Alfresco server
# Set the following to where Tomcat is installed
APPSERVER=/opt/alfresco/tomcat
# Set any default JVM values
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
export JAVA_OPTS='-Xms128m -Xmx256m -server'
# Following only needed for Sun JVMs before to 1.5 update 8
export JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader\$1,doBody -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/alfresco/repo/search/impl/lucene/index/IndexInfo\$Merger,mergeIndexes -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/alfresco/repo/search/impl/lucene/index/IndexInfo\$Merger,mergeDeletions"
#
if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
"$APPSERVER"/bin/startup.sh
# if [ -r ./virtual_start.sh ]; then
#    sh ./virtual_start.sh
# fi
if [ -r ./start_oo.sh ]; then
    sh ./start_oo.sh
fi
elif [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
"$APPSERVER"/bin/shutdown.sh
# if [ -r ./virtual_start.sh ]; then
#    sh ./virtual_stop.sh
# fi
if [ -r ./start_oo.sh ]; then
    killall soffice.bin
fi
fi

Re: Ubuntu 8.04

vivi — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:32:48 GMT

Here is a method to install Alfresco community 2.1 on Ubuntu server 8.04

http://forum.alfresco-fr.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1810

Re: Ubuntu 8.04

louish — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:43:16 GMT

Hi All.

Problem solved. It was a UE (user error) on my part. I was not starting alfresco correctly. I had missed the end part of the command.

sudo ./alfresco.sh start

TIA
for all the suggestions.

Louis

Re: Ubuntu 8.04

scottthornley — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:59:32 GMT

I'm fairly sure that this is a layer 8 issue, but would appreciate additional eyeballs and/or guidance.
I installed alfresco via the information on:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Alfresco_on_Ubuntu_7.10
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Alfresco_on_Ubuntu_8.04
http://forums.alfresco.com/fr/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1810

I've put the

export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun" ‍

lines in both /etc/profile and /etc/environment (the French version)

When I execute

$ sudo /etc/init.d/alfresco start‍

I get the same iptables and "Neither JAVA_HOME nor the "JRE_HOME"…. error messages as posted above. When I execute

$ sudo su -
# /etc/init.d/alfresco start‍‍

I merely get the JAVA_HOME/JRE_HOME error messages.

When I execute

$ sudo /opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh start‍

, the process does not throw any error messages, just the normal

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /opt/alfresco/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /opt/alfresco/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME:       /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun‍‍‍‍

$ ps -ef | grep alfresco‍

shows the process running. So I point browser to port 8080/alfresco, which just gives a 404 error:


HTTP Status 404 - /alfresco/
type Status report
message /alfresco/
description The requested resource (/alfresco/) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/5.5.23‍‍‍‍‍‍

Pointing to port 8080 does give the Tomcat success page.

I've gone back over things a number of time, looking for ownership/permissions issues, but am not seeing anything.

Any ideas?

Re: Ubuntu 8.04

msntrf — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:08:35 GMT

I'm at the same point as ScottThornley.

I battled through the JAVA_HOME problem and finally noticed last section on http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Alfresco_on_Ubuntu_8.04 which says to add a line exporting JAVA_HOME in /opt/alfresco/tomcat/bin/setenv.sh

Then, to avoid "Bad argument 'udp' " and "Bad argument 'tcp' ", I need to execute


$ sudo su -
# /etc/init.d/alfresco start
‍‍‍‍

I get a small error from openoffice that's something like "Can't open display: Set DISPLAY environment variables…" but I assume that's okay as we're running headless OpenOffice.

Then, when I navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8080/alfresco/ I get "HTTP Status 404… resource is not available".

Has anyone had any success with this?

Re: Ubuntu 8.04

msntrf — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:59:39 GMT

Not sure why I didn't think of this earlier, but I looked at the Alfresco log and found:

Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.alfresco.web.app.ContextListener…
…custom-repository-context.xml] is invalid;

The problem was that while following the wiki on installing Alfresco on Ubuntu 7, I copied and pasted into custom-repository-context.xml and there was a space at the beginning of that file. Removing all spaces at the beginning of the file did the trick.

However, now Java us running out of heap space and can't run Alfresco. Not sure how much memory is needed… I'll have to investigate that.