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Alfresco install on Ubuntu Server 9.04 - What now?

oblivian — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:45:50 GMT

Hello,I just installed Alfresco on Ubuntu 9.04 through the partner repository and most work very well out-of-the-box. What I am not 100% sure of is what version this is. And whom is maintaing the Ubuntu version? Will upgrades etc. be released through the repository?Also, in the forums I see many ref

Re: Alfresco install on Ubuntu Server 9.04 - What now?

jlabuelo — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:14:50 GMT

Hi there

Just saw your post about installing Alfresco 3 in Ubuntu. I have installed mine, Alfresco 3.0, in Ubuntu 8. It works fine, (just installed Alfresco, not Studio nor Shared). However I have a problem everytime I need to stop and restart Alfresco for backups.
After stoping Alfresco, the only way to get it to work again, is restarting the machine again.

Did you have the same problem?, if so can you explain me how you solved it?

I have created another post with more details about this

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20852

Thanks a lot in advance!!

Re: Alfresco install on Ubuntu Server 9.04 - What now?

chr_ypma — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:42:06 GMT

I also had 2 observations made on the alfresco package here:
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20767

Is there somebody maintaining these packages? What is the future of the Ubuntu package?

What I am not 100% sure of is what version this is

It is version 3.2 (the latest community release)

Re: Alfresco install on Ubuntu Server 9.04 - What now?

brice — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:10:58 GMT

I've installed successfully alfresco-community on Ubuntu 9.04 on my eeepc. Same procedure failed @ our web hoster (lack of place in /, so dpkg -a –configure needed) and I didn't use db-common to configure mysql that already exists.
a simple "set -x" in /etc/init.d/tomcat6 ends with:
+ /usr/bin/jsvc -user tomcat6 -cp
/usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar:/usr/share/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar -outfile SYSLOG
-errfile SYSLOG -pidfile /var/run/tomcat6.pid -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -Xms128m
-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat6/endorsed
-Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat6 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat6
-Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/tomcat6-temp
-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
-Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/logging.properties
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
+ sleep 5
+ start-stop-daemon –test –start –pidfile /var/run/tomcat6.pid –user tomcat6
–startas /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java
+ log_end_msg 1
+ [ -z 1 ]
+ log_use_usplash
+ [ n = y ]
+ type usplash_write
+ [ 1 -eq 0 ]
+ usplash_write FAILURE failed         <==========
+ log_to_console log_end_msg 1
+ [ n != y ]
+ [ no != yes ]
+ readlink /proc/self/fd/0
+ stdin=/dev/pts/1
+ [ /dev/pts/1 != /dev/pts/1 ]
+ return 0
+ [ 148 ]
+ [ -x /usr/bin/tput ]
+ printf \r
+ /usr/bin/tput hpa 148

                                                          + [ 1 -eq 0 ]
+ printf [
[+ /usr/bin/tput setaf 1             <==========
+ printf fail
fail+ /usr/bin/tput op
+ echo ]
]
+ return 1
==================
the corresponding strace said :
read(3, "/dev/pts/1\n"…, 128)         = 11
read(3, ""…, 128)                     = 0
close(3)                                = 0
wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 13888
stat64("/usr/bin/tput", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=9688, …}) = 0
geteuid32()                             = 0
write(1, "\r"…, 1)                    = 1
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7e0d708) = 13889
— SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) —
wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 13889
write(1, "["…, 1)                     = 1
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7e0d708) = 13890
— SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) —
wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 13890
write(1, "fail"…, 4)                  = 4
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7e0d708) = 13891
— SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) —
wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 13891
write(1, "]\n"…, 2)                   = 2
exit_group(1)                           = ?

no more clue
someone ?

Re: Alfresco install on Ubuntu Server 9.04 - What now?

brice — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:56:23 GMT

ok, more clue so,
tail -f /var/log/daemon.log => Sep 22 17:51:24 ***-*** jsvc.exec[20119]: Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for object heap

no tomcat6.pid file in /var/run, but still 2 processes (zombie ?) to kill !!
reducing xms and xmx java options in /etc/default/tomcat6 makes the deal.

or add some memory and swap !!!

Re: Alfresco install on Ubuntu Server 9.04 - What now?

oblivian — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:48:49 GMT

Hi there

Just saw your post about installing Alfresco 3 in Ubuntu. I have installed mine, Alfresco 3.0, in Ubuntu 8. It works fine, (just installed Alfresco, not Studio nor Shared). However I have a problem everytime I need to stop and restart Alfresco for backups.
After stoping Alfresco, the only way to get it to work again, is restarting the machine again.

Did you have the same problem?, if so can you explain me how you solved it?

I have created another post with more details about this
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20852

Thanks a lot in advance!!

Hello,
Sorry for late posting…

Well, I use http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html to backup (which is an excellent backup system using rsync and ssh) the server running Alfresco. I never "stop" alfresco prior to backing it up, but I run a script just prior to backing up, which is a MySQL dump of all databases on the server. I also backup, /etc, /usr/share/tomcat6, var/lib/alfresco, etc….

#!/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin 
# USER VARIABLES
MYSQLUSER=xxxx
MYSQLPWD=xxxxxxx
MYSQLHOST=localhost
MYSQLBACKUPDIR=/root/mysql_backup
# PATH VARIABLES
MK=/bin/mkdir;
RM=/bin/rm;
GREP=/bin/grep;
MYSQL=/usr/bin/mysql;
MYSQLDUMP=/usr/bin/mysqldump;
# CREATE MYSQL BACKUP
# Remove existing backup dir
$RM -Rf $MYSQLBACKUPDIR
# Create new backup dir
$MK $MYSQLBACKUPDIR
#Dump new files
for i in $(echo 'SHOW DATABASES;' | $MYSQL -u$MYSQLUSER -p$MYSQLPWD -h$MYSQLHOST|$GREP -v '^Database$'); do
  $MYSQLDUMP                                                    \
  -u$MYSQLUSER -p$MYSQLPWD -h$MYSQLHOST                         \
  -Q -c -C –add-drop-table –add-locks –quick –lock-tables   \
  $i > $MYSQLBACKUPDIR/$i.sql;
done;
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Oblivian

Re: Alfresco install on Ubuntu Server 9.04 - What now?

razail — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:18:06 GMT

I noticed your post, I am new to Ubuntu and even more new to alfresco. Is there a noob guide on how to get it installed somewhere out there?

Thanks for any help.

Re: Alfresco install on Ubuntu Server 9.04 - What now?

oblivian — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:04:47 GMT

To install Alfresco in Ubuntu you mean?