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ERROR: Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to...

ds-crcpress — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:54:23 GMT

I have read other posts related to this error message but none of them work. I have deleted the alfresco data directory and the database schema, tomcat temp files, logs, etc in attempt to get a 'fresh' installation. But I still get the error:14:28:52,592 INFO [node.index.FullIndexRecoveryComponen

Re: ERROR: Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to...

ds-crcpress — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:59:38 GMT

Is there a way to kick off the initial bootstrap process again?

-David

Re: ERROR: Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to...

ds-crcpress — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:40:37 GMT

Found this which should answer one of my questions about disabling strict system tests:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_Configuration#Automatic_System_Configuration_Checks

-David

Re: ERROR: Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to...

ds-crcpress — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:20:32 GMT

New developments:

I downloaded the tomcat distribution and notice that there are LOTS of extensions already added. There is a lot of information that can be learned from this…

Re: ERROR: Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to...

ds-crcpress — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:34:53 GMT

Problems solved (knock on wood)!

What I did:

1) Downgraded to Tomcat 5.5.25
2) Used WinMerge to figure out differences between the alfresco-community tomcat bundle and a copy of apache-tomcat-5.5.25 distro. I ONLY copied the files that were missing from the alfresco bundle to the respective tomcat-5 distro location.
3) Started server–got "Transaction not started" error (bean failed to initialize, no transaction was the cause). Turns out the HSQLDB configuration was wrong? Not sure, but i reconfigured it for my MS SQL 2005 server based on the configuration files (there is a special Alfresco SQL Server dialect that is used) and it worked! If you ever get the Transaction issue, it is just because of a misconfigured data source. Make sure your config is 100% correct (url, username, password, drivers are in common/lib, etc).
4) Moved alfresco data directory. Then I got more exceptions on restart. I solved this by the usual recommendation–delete the database and recreate it, delete the content store, then start tomcat.

I've gone through a process that is repeatable, so I am pretty confident this is the solution to my problems.

* pat myself on the back *

Re: ERROR: Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to...

ds-crcpress — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:41:40 GMT

Forgot to also note as part of merging the changes from the alfresco bundle into tomcat-5.5.25 distro:

* I modified the catalina.bat startup script to mimic the modifications made to the JVM options, and endorsed libraries directories in the alfresco bundle startup scripts.

Re: ERROR: Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to...

luã_smiguelsequ — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:31:57 GMT

4) Moved alfresco data directory. Then I got more exceptions on restart. I solved this by the usual recommendation–delete the database and recreate it, delete the content store, then start tomcat.

I wonder if that means "losing all content"… so far, I haven't been able to fix this issue (using Linux in my case), but I have not been bold enough to delete "too much", just the lucene-indexes directory.

Re: ERROR: Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to...

luã_smiguelsequ — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:10:11 GMT

Definitely not a solution for me.

Alfresco is fine if you're willing to start everything from scratch (ie. a clean database). If you have GBytes of content and angry customers that cannot access it, and there is no way to get Alfresco to notice that everything is there where it should be â€” it's a huge problem.

Re: ERROR: Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to...

zeeshan_h_naqvi — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 05:22:28 GMT

i had same issue , then i solve this issue by following step:-

-> delete alfresco/alf_data/*
-> create new database in mysql and give database info to alfresco/apache-tomcate/share/classes/alfresco-gloable.properties
-> restart alfresco .

note:- if u do this thing u will loss ur data and information .

Re: ERROR: Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to...

timharder — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:24:00 GMT

Just delete the alf_data_dev in your Alfresco and restart.
Attention: All data will be lost
If you are unsure wether you want all your dev data to be deleted, just rename the folder alf_data_dev to alf_data_dev_old and restart.