topic Re: Startup issues in Alfresco Archive

Startup issues

steel — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:30:17 GMT

Everything was going fine and then I restarted the server a few times while debugging and now I can't get Alfresco to start at all. I've tried completely deleting tomcat installation and all the Alfresco data directories but no go.Here's the error:10:24:52,112 ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] Conte

Re: Startup issues

steel — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:52:56 GMT

I just scrapped the recent changes and reverted back to my last revision and all seems fine now.

Re: Startup issues

andy — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:01:18 GMT

Hi

You probably have a permission error masked by an old bug.
Which version of the repository are you using?

In
public-services-security-context.xml

there should be a bean

<bean id="afterAcl" class="org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.acegi.ACLEntryAfterInvocationProvider" abstract="false" singleton="true"
        lazy-init="default" autowire="default" dependency-check="default" >
        <property name="permissionService">
            <ref bean="permissionServiceImpl"></ref>
        </property>
        <property name="namespacePrefixResolver">
            <ref bean="namespaceService"></ref>
        </property>
        <property name="nodeService">
            <ref bean="nodeService"></ref>
        </property>
        <property name="authenticationService">
             <ref bean="authenticationServiceImpl" />
        </property>
    </bean>

The key bit is the use of authenticationServiceImpl.
The isCurrentUserTheSystemUser call should not be in a tx wrapper bean as an error may have already marked the tx for roll back. This is what you are seeing. You probably did not have permission to call the method.

Cheers

Andy

Re: Startup issues

derek — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:02:54 GMT

Hi,

Stick some breakpoints into the following class. The error you are seeing is actually caused by an earlier rollback. This is a bug, so it would be good if you could help to get a trace of where the transaction rollback is happening during the bootstrap.


org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport
‍‍‍

You'll have to get the Spring 1.2.6 source.

I've no idea what would have been corrupted.

Regards

Re: Startup issues

steel — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:05:31 GMT

I'm using 1.2 RC1.

What other side effects does this have? I am having some issues with permissions after trying to elevate the Coordinator user to have permission to create users and groups.

Can you shed some light on this?

thanks.

Re: Startup issues

derek — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:08:12 GMT

Hi,

You can't catch a RuntimeException and continue with the transaction. It has been marked for rollback and the transaction demarcation won't allow re-entry into a transactional method.

If you are going to perform an operation that can fail, you have to ensure that you are able to discard the transaction it takes place in (the entire stack of entered transactions) before continuing.

That is why I wanted to know where the transaction was being rolled back in case it was something in our code that was absorbing an exception and attempting to continue with the transaction.

Regards