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Installation 4.2f 'Could not find or load main class'

sscbrian — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:56:34 GMT

I've got a server that was running 4.2e just fine. I heard about the 4.2f update, so I installed that, but it fails to start. catalina configtest returns:C:\Alfresco42f\tomcat\bin>catalina configtestUsing CATALINA_BASE: "C:\Alfresco42f\tomcat"Using CATALINA_HOME: "C:\Alfresco42f\tomcat"Usin

Re: Installation 4.2f 'Could not find or load main class'

sscbrian — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:32:50 GMT

Commons-daemon reports:


[2014-04-29 09:19:55] [info]  [ 4028] Commons Daemon procrun (1.0.15.0 64-bit) s
tarted
[2014-04-29 09:19:55] [info]  [ 4028] Running 'alfrescoTomcatnum1' Service…
[2014-04-29 09:19:55] [info]  [ 2552] Starting service…
[2014-04-29 09:19:55] [error] [ 2552] Failed creating java
[2014-04-29 09:19:55] [error] [ 2552] ServiceStart returned 1
[2014-04-29 09:19:55] [info]  [ 4028] Run service finished.
[2014-04-29 09:19:55] [info]  [ 4028] Commons Daemon procrun finished
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Stdout and Stderr just have

2014-04-29 09:19:55 Commons Daemon procrun stderr initialized‍

Re: Installation 4.2f 'Could not find or load main class'

ciccio — Thu, 15 May 2014 15:50:59 GMT

Solution that works for me on Windows 2008 R2 is:
- install JDK and JRE
- set JAVA_HOME to JDK
- restart Alfresco service

With bundled JVM, Alfreso 4.2f fails to start!