topic Explorer stops working in Alfresco Archive

Explorer stops working

mattparker — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:17:06 GMT

I was going to make a change to one of the config files in Alfresco. I stopped the server and backed up my installation. Next I made the change to the config file and immediately received a 404 error after restarting the server and attempting to reconnect. So, I stopped the server again, un-did my c

Re: Explorer stops working

kbonnet — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:31:32 GMT

never seen this one, but it seems the vti module is complaining about the Sites space not existing. Maybe if you uninstall the vti-module (i.e. put a fresh alfresco.war in the webapps folder) you get Alfresco started and can solve the problem?

Koen

Re: Explorer stops working

nowrap — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:29:53 GMT

Removing the VTI-Module from alfresco.war is the correct solution for this problem to get Alfresco up and running again.
But you lose the SharePoint-Extension.

How can the VTI-Module uninstalled in order to reinstall it and the rebuild /app:company_home/st:sites?

Re: Explorer stops working

maximus007 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:48:27 GMT

I am experiencing the same problem:

16:45:49,948  ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
java.lang.RuntimeException: No root found for :
   root path: /app:company_home/st:sites
        at org.alfresco.module.vti.handler.alfresco.VtiPathHelper$2.doWork(VtiPathHelper.java:502)
        at org.alfresco.module.vti.handler.alfresco.VtiPathHelper$2.doWork(VtiPathHelper.java:484)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationUtil.runAs(AuthenticationUtil.java:514)
        at org.alfresco.module.vti.handler.alfresco.VtiPathHelper.onBootstrap(VtiPathHelper.java:482)
        at org.alfresco.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:62)
        at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster$1.run(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:77)
        at org.springframework.core.task.SyncTaskExecutor.execute(SyncTaskExecutor.java:49)
        at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:75)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:246)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:617)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:355)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:189)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
        at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:69)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4342)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:627)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:553)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:488)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
01/02/2010 4:45:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
01/02/2010 4:45:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
log4j:ERROR LogMananger.repositorySelector was null likely due to error in class reloading, using NOPLoggerRepository.‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

how do you restore the VTI module?

Re: Explorer stops working

whban — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:55:59 GMT

java.lang.RuntimeException: No root found for :
root path: /app:company_home/st:sites

Sorry to bring up the post! i experience the same things in version 3.3
And suspect it was issue due to missing of "site" space under "company home"! :shock:

It happened when i removed the space "site"… how am i going to resolve this problem??

Re: Explorer stops working

savic_prvoslav — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:54:19 GMT

This heppend to me to, I dropped repository.
This is big problem too for some, but I was in dev so no problem. After this we developed a way to hide on demand some spaces, dictionary, site …

Re: Explorer stops working

pondermuse — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:05:04 GMT

Hello,

I've just done the same thing: Removed Sites space thinking it wasn't needed. Then after Alfresco server re-start, I can't login using web client anymore and I see a tomcat error log complaining that Sites space can't be found…

How did you guys recover the situation? Is there a simple way of recreating the Sites space? Or is a re-install required???

Thanks in advance,
PM.

Re: Explorer stops working

savic_prvoslav — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:14:26 GMT

use the alfresco api to login from java code and create this folder.

Re: Explorer stops working

pondermuse — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:22:47 GMT

Hi Savic,

Thanks for the quick answer. However, I've decided instead to re-install Alfresco from scratch as there was no meaningful data within. Somehow, setting up a development environment just to re-create a space within 'company home' seemed a bit excessive (Mind you, re-installing Alfresco itself seemed also excessive!).

I am new to these types of enterprise systems and I am trying to get my head around them… Why is it that an admin user can delete a space folder which is needed by the system itself to operate properly?

Regards,
PM.

Re: Explorer stops working

savic_prvoslav — Sun, 16 May 2010 13:04:55 GMT

Solution that I have is to hide this folders, sites dictionary ect if not used or create minor change to not allow to delete them if you are ok with java I can provide to you with some pointers, so users can not delete them- really easy solution.

PS: alfresco has this problems , one of them is when you delete users home space that user can not login , I do not have many answers to why bat I have answers to hot to fix and go on.

Re: Explorer stops working

pondermuse — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:30:27 GMT

I think I will explore the 'hide this folders' option which sounds sensible as I am currently just tasked with evaluating the Alfresco system and therefore I want to avoid as much as possible the need to modify any java code.

Thanks again Savic!

Regards,
PM.