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Alfresco on a Stick

mawilson — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:58:56 GMT

I am attempting to create an instance of Alfresco to run on a 1GB USB "thumb drive." I started with the process outlined in the sticky forum post on the same subject. At the moment I am working within a directory structure on my HD to get everything to work then I'll move it the the USB drive. Per t

Re: Alfresco on a Stick

janv — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:26:39 GMT

>> Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Try commenting in:
JAVA_OPTS=-Xms128m -Xmx512m -Xss64k -server

You should also clear out your failed install (db_remove / db_setup) before re-starting.

Regards,
Jan

Re: Alfresco on a Stick

mawilson — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:53:40 GMT

Thanks, janv! That did the trick! I've got the dashboard now.

Now on to OpenOffice. For some reason, it starts once, disappears and starts again but not minimized. Task Manager shows only one instance. I also noted the following while Alfresco was coming up:

16:37:03,742 User:System ERROR [util.exec.RuntimeExecBootstrapBean] Bootstrap co
mmand failed:
Execution result:
   os:         Windows XP
   command:    "C:/Documents and Settings/39338/My Documents/Alfresco/OpenOffice
Portable/program/soffice" "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffic
e.ServiceManager" "-env:UserInstallation=file:///C:/Documents and Settings/39338
/My Documents/Alfresco/oouser" -nologo -headless -nofirststartwizard -nocrashrep
 -norestore
   succeeded:  false
   exit code:  2
   out:
   err:        CreateProcess: "C:\Documents and Settings/39338/My Documents/Alfr
esco/OpenOfficePortable/program/soffice" "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=810
0;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" "-env:UserInstallation=file:///C:/Documents and
 Settings/39338/My Docume
16:37:03,960 User:System INFO  [repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco ro
ot data directory ('dir.root') is: C:\Documents and Settings\39338\My Documents\
Alfresco\alf_data
16:37:03,976 User:System INFO  [admin.patch.PatchExecuter] Checking for patches
to apply …
16:37:06,379 User:System INFO  [repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] Found 0 module(s)
.
16:37:08,096 User:System WARN  [alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester] A conn
ection to OpenOffice could not be established.‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I wonder if I really need 'start_oo.bat' after all.

Re: Alfresco on a Stick

mawilson — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:09:00 GMT

To answer my own questions:

re: the problem with OpenOfficePortable. It wound up being simple. start_oo.bat pointed to a reasonable place but lacked arguments to start it in the background. Alfresco.bat relies solely on what is in start_oo.bat if it exists. Various commented out versions of a command to start OOP in alfresco.bat also had paths that didn't reach the correct file.

re: need for start_oo.bat. alfresco.bat uses the existance of start_oo.bat to determine whether to kill soffice. So, either have a start_oo.bat or modify alfresco.bat accordingly.

Since I appear to need start_oo.bat, I decided to place a working form of the start command for OpenOfficePortable. start_oo.bat now reads:

@echo off
rem ————————————————–
rem Start script for the Open Office transform service
rem ————————————————–

echo Starting OpenOffice service…
call OpenOfficePortable\App\openoffice\program\soffice "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" -nologo -headless 
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This still generates a pop-up concerning language selection ("user interface language cannot be determined"). It's probably more an OO issue but, I'd love to know how to avoid it. NOTE: the reference to oouser was removed from the start command because I have no such file anywhere on my system.

Re: Alfresco on a Stick

pitonyak — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:21:47 GMT

One possible solution:

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=15332