topic Activiti 6 beta1 failed to start in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-6-beta1-failed-to-start/m-p/180431#M133561 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I followed instruction of Getting start guide with the version of Activiti 6 beta 1 but it failed to run with the following error messages.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>java.io.FileNotFoundException:&nbsp; (No such file or directory)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(FileOutputStream.java:270)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.io.FileOutputStream.&lt;init&gt;(FileOutputStream.java:213)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.io.FileOutputStream.&lt;init&gt;(FileOutputStream.java:133)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:294)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.activateOptions(FileAppender.java:165)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:307)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:172)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:104)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:842)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:768)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:648)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:514)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:580)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:526)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.&lt;clinit&gt;(LogManager.java:127)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory.getLogger(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:66)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:270)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:281)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at com.activiti.servlet.WebConfigurer.&lt;init&gt;(WebConfigurer.java:44)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:422)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:116)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4919)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5517)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:652)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:1095)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1930)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Sep 28, 2015 5:22:38 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>SEVERE: One or more listeners failed to start. Full details will be found in the appropriate container log file</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Sep 28, 2015 5:22:38 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>SEVERE: Context [/activiti-app] startup failed due to previous errors</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm running it in newly downloaded Tomcat 7.x and 8.x and Java 8 on MacOSX.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Brendan</SPAN><BR /><BR /></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:18:26 GMT ccp999 2015-09-28T11:18:26Z Activiti 6 beta1 failed to start https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-6-beta1-failed-to-start/m-p/180431#M133561 Hi,I followed instruction of Getting start guide with the version of Activiti 6 beta 1 but it failed to run with the following error messages.log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.java.io.FileNotFoundException:&nbsp; (No such file or directory)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:18:26 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-6-beta1-failed-to-start/m-p/180431#M133561 ccp999 2015-09-28T11:18:26Z Re: Activiti 6 beta1 failed to start https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-6-beta1-failed-to-start/m-p/180432#M133562 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I had the same problem - </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I had to change the ${filename} in activity-app/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties to a valid filename.&nbsp; I'm not sure where this property is supposed to be being set really though <img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /></SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:04:06 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-6-beta1-failed-to-start/m-p/180432#M133562 les-bb 2015-09-28T12:04:06Z Re: Activiti 6 beta1 failed to start https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-6-beta1-failed-to-start/m-p/180433#M133563 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Yes, apologies. This has been fixed recently: </SPAN><A href="https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/commit/cc5af2dc8407b42215ee5fe87e0adfe3c1dfe848" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/commit/cc5af2dc8407b42215ee5fe87e0adfe3c1dfe848</A></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Oct 2015 09:31:31 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-6-beta1-failed-to-start/m-p/180433#M133563 jbarrez 2015-10-05T09:31:31Z