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[SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

hobleyd — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:57:45 GMT

Hello,I have just installed the Labs 3 Stable version of Alfresco and Share on CentOS 5.2 and I have been trying out Share. I can create a new Site ok, but when I click on Members within that site, I get the following stack trace:The Web Script /share/service/components/site-members has responded wi

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

hobleyd — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:42:13 GMT

Certainly - apologies for that:

JDK: 1.6.0
RAM: 4 Gig
DB: Postgres 8.1
Disk: 75G available
App Server: tomcat 5.5.15

all running on CentOS 5.2

Cheers,
David

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

mikeh — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:49:00 GMT

One further question - what's the format of the usernames on your system? Do they contain any character other than 0-9, A-Z ?

Thanks,
Mike

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

hobleyd — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:39:06 GMT

Mike,

We have the . character in our usernames. This was a problem when logging in with the 3b version, but the log in was fixed as part of 3 Stable.

Cheers,
David

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

mikeh — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:02:19 GMT

That'll be it then - there must still be some bugs around handling usernames containing dots.

To fix this one, look for
alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/site/membership/membership.get.desc.xml

and update it to:

<webscript>
  <shortname>Membership</shortname>
  <description>Get the membership details for a user</description>
  <url>/api/sites/{shortname}/memberships/{username}</url>
  <format default="json">argument</format>
  <authentication>user</authentication>
  <transaction>required</transaction>
</webscript>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Note the change on the format line.

Edit: http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-1101

Thanks,
Mike

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

hobleyd — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:19:50 GMT

Yep - that has solved the problem, thanks. I have also updated the other files as per the attached issue.

Cheers,
David

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

hobleyd — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:04:00 GMT

Now I am noticing another couple of errors. They seem pretty basic - should I post the issues individually? Or should I assume they are part of the issue with dots in usernames?

If I create a site, the next time I log in the site does not show up in the My Sites section of the Dashboard.

If I then Search for the site, I get:

Wrapped Exception (with status template): Error during processing of the template 'Method public org.alfresco.repo.jscript.ScriptableHashMap org.alfresco.repo.site.script.Site.listMembers(java.lang.String,java.lang.String) threw an exception when invoked on org.alfresco.repo.site.script.Site@13b94d5'. Please contact your system administrator.

Cheers,
David

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

mikeh — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:25:56 GMT

I can't reproduce that last problem.

Could you provide reproducible steps please? i.e. the user name who's creating the site and the details you created the site with (randomise one or both if they contain private information, but keep the same format).

Thanks,
Mike

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

rondeth — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:58:34 GMT

FWIW, I'm having the exact same issues as hobleyd (the sites not listing on the dashboard and the search exception) and came here in search of info.

Fresh install, LDAP synch/auth working. Had logged in to the web client, user is an admin. User name formats contain letters and numbers, no special chars. User name was NTISRE01 and space name was 'pgacis'. I cruised around the new site for a while, adding content in the blogs/etc when all of a sudden it just started reading 'Site' in the top left, and the only button left on the top right was 'Join' (which errors out with an Ajax dialog saying 'cannot add user NTISR01 to this space' message).

Perhaps that helps, perhaps not.

Update: A little more context. It seems as soon as I get any sort of exception thrown is when it might happen…I notice the site is set to 'private' from then on in the top right, but no obvious way exists to change that back to public.

I'm also seeing error logs reading "Skipping activity post 9 since failed to get site members: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 500 for URL: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/sites/pgacis/memberships". I don't know if that's applicable/related though.

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

hobleyd — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:37:09 GMT

Mike,

Hmmm, I can no longer reproduce this now either. Last week it was as simple as creating it, logging out and logging back in again. This week, with exactly the same details it is working.

I will play around some more and get back to you. It may be as per rondeth that I was seeing issues as a result of the crashes I was having previously. Let me investigate.

Cheers,
David

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

hobleyd — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:17:14 GMT

Mike,

ok, so the site I created yesterday which was available after creation is now no longer available with the error mentioned above. No new exceptions in the catalina.out, or alfresco.log or share.log files. I can see the site in Alfresco.

Username format is xxxx.yyyy

Site created:

Name: FOO
URL Name: foo
Description: FOO Collaboration
Type: Collaboration Site
Access: Public

I did however notice some errors around the time I created the test site:

09:20:32,423 INFO [web.framework.ModelObjectManager] Unable to save object: page.title.site~csi~dashboard of type: component to persister: RemoteStore_alfresco/site-data/components_component due to error: Unable to save object: page.title.site~csi~dashboard.xml due to error: Unable to create document path: page.title.site~csi~dashboard.xml in remote store: alfresco due to error:
09:20:32,432 INFO [web.framework.ModelObjectManager] Unable to save object: page.navigation.site~csi~dashboard of type: component to persister: RemoteStore_alfresco/site-data/components_component due to error: Unable to save object: page.navigation.site~csi~dashboard.xml due to error: Unable to create document path: page.navigation.site~csi~dashboard.xml in remote store: alfresco due to error:
09:20:32,441 INFO [web.framework.ModelObjectManager] Unable to save object: page.component-1-1.site~csi~dashboard of type: component to persister: RemoteStore_alfresco/site-data/components_component due to error: Unable to save object: page.component-1-1.site~csi~dashboard.xml due to error: Unable to create document path: page.component-1-1.site~csi~dashboard.xml in remote store: alfresco due to error:
…

I have been using the same site name during testing and deleting the site from within Alfresco after it disappears, so I have just created another completely new test site to see if that is the problem. The errors above did not appear, I'll see if this new site persists…

UPDATE: While the new test site created without error, a hour or so later and both sites have disappeared from the Dashboard and searching fails again.

Cheers,
David

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

hobleyd — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:33:16 GMT

All,

Poking around the forums, I just noticed this comment:

The other thing to be aware of when using AD is that typically you'll have set up a user/group importer job. If you have, you'll need to make sure that the "clearAllChildren" flag for the ldapGroupImport bean is set to "false", otherwise all the groups that Share creates for managing sites will be deleted, and your sites will become borked.

I have LDAP synchronisation set up (not AD though) and I do indeed have clearAllChildren set to true, so I have set it to false and I'll see if that improves matters.

Cheers,
David

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

hobleyd — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:10:45 GMT

Confirmed. This solved my problems.

Note: to allow invites to work, I also had to add the line:

        <property name="allowGetEnabled" value="true" />

into the authenticationDao in ldap-authentication-context.xml. Mine now looks like this:

    <bean name="authenticationDao" class="org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.DefaultMutableAuthenticationDao" >
        <property name="allowGetEnabled" value="true" />
        <property name="allowDeleteUser">
            <value>true</value>
        </property>
    </bean>

Share still doesn't work for me though as the Activity history is not displaying.

Cheers,
David

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

mikeh — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:48:08 GMT

Confirmed. This solved my problems.

Note: to allow invites to work, I also had to add the line:

        <property name="allowGetEnabled" value="true" />

into the authenticationDao in ldap-authentication-context.xml. Mine now looks like this:

    <bean name="authenticationDao" class="org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.DefaultMutableAuthenticationDao" >
        <property name="allowGetEnabled" value="true" />
        <property name="allowDeleteUser">
            <value>true</value>
        </property>
    </bean>

Could you raise all that in a JIRA issue please? Mark it critical and link to this topic. Thanks.

Share still doesn't work for me though as the Activity history is not displaying.

Labs 3.0 doesn't support PostgreSQL for Activities yet, which is probably the issue here.

Mike

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

hobleyd — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:31:34 GMT

Raised JIRA tickets:

Invitations not working: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-2571
Postgres not supported in Share: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-2572

Cheers,
David

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

sylvain_d — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:07:45 GMT

hello !

It seems that the problem is the same with username containing an "_". I'm not using a LDAP.

I created two sites with my user under Share. It make the site finder bugging

Wrapped Exception (with status template): Error during processing of the template 'Method public org.alfresco.repo.jscript.ScriptableHashMap org.alfresco.repo.site.script.Site.listMembers(java.lang.String,java.lang.String) threw an exception when invoked on org.alfresco.repo.site.script.Site@428c8f79'. Please contact your system administrator.
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I change the <format default="json"/> in the different files specify in the http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-1101 but it still not working.

Any ideas ?

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

womer — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:39:13 GMT

I'm getting this same error trying to migrate sites from one server to another. Clean install from Alfresco-Labs-3Stable-Linux-x86-Install on RHEL 5.3, 4GB RAM, java version 1.6.0_07, MySQL 5.0.45 and 1TB of EMC fiber connected disk. I have NTLM SSO/passthru configured for everything.

Just exporting the sites from a previous install of 3.1 then importing to this fresh install. The sites show up in the DM, but any kind of site search in Share generates:

Wrapped Exception (with status template): Error during processing of the template 'Method public org.alfresco.repo.jscript.ScriptableHashMap org.alfresco.repo.site.script.Site.listMembers(java.lang.String,java.lang.String) threw an exception when invoked on org.alfresco.repo.site.script.Site@80bf81'. Please contact your system administrator.

The very first time I tried doing this, I got a MySQL timeout so I extend that, deleted all the sites that were imported up to that point and re-imported them successfully on the second attempt. This is when I started seeing this error, however I didn't try the search after the initial timeout error. So next I tried deleting all the sites (what a pain), the importing the sites again, still getting the same error. Next I rebuilt the lucene indexes, but still getting the same error.

Next I'll try importing the User Homes to see if there's some links there it's trying to establish, but I'm just shooting in the dark at this point.

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

mikeh — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:23:53 GMT

You can't just copy the DM Sites space and expect Share to work - it also stores vital data in the AVM store. Use FTP to copy it across, or copy your entire DB and alf_data across to the new server.

Mike

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

womer — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:44:00 GMT

Obviously I'm new to this… but what I'm trying to accomplish and I've not yet found any discussions or documentation that references this, other than just doing backups and restores… but I'm trying to set up multiple environments for the alfresco code itself, not just the content or the code it's managing. I need dev/test/qa and prod environments to push through and test upgrades and enhancements to the base product. I realize this is outside of the scope of this particular thread, but a pointer somewhere to some docs or examples sure would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott Womer

Re: [SOLVED] Selecting Site Members crashes

dhirajkrsingh — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:56:00 GMT

I am new to alfresco I am not able to access the repository through share it is throwing message

Site memberships/admin does not exist

No log is present

Kindly Help
With Regards
Dhiraj Kr Singh