topic Re: Alfresco Fails to Start in Alfresco Archive

Alfresco Fails to Start

venatorfox — Wed, 25 May 2011 19:53:58 GMT

I modified something in the alfresco directory (The Permissions XML) that broke something (Replacing it with the backup didn't revert the issue), so I stopped the server and replaced the entire alfresco directory with the backup.However, when I attempt to start the server, it wont start.Visiting the

Re: Alfresco Fails to Start

mrogers — Wed, 25 May 2011 20:11:42 GMT

You need to post the errors from your alfresco.log and try to remember what you did, which files you replaced etc.

Port 50501 in use may mean another program has grabbed that port and is using it. You need to find out which other program is using it and close that down. Alternatively you can re-configure that port number that alfresco uses by changing alfresco-global.properties or simply set the number to 0.

Re: Alfresco Fails to Start

venatorfox — Wed, 25 May 2011 20:34:10 GMT

Here is the entire log

15:19:46,644 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertiesFactoryBean] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/repository.properties]
15:19:46,646 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertiesFactoryBean] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/domain/transaction.properties]
15:19:46,646 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertiesFactoryBean] Loading properties file from URL [file:/opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties]
15:19:46,738 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/alfresco-shared.properties]
15:19:57,061 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'avmRemoteService' defined in class path resource [alfresco/remote-services-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.rmi.server.ExportException: Port already in use: 50501; nested exception is: 
   java.net.BindException: Address already in use
Caused by: java.rmi.server.ExportException: Port already in use: 50501; nested exception is: 
   java.net.BindException: Address already in use
   at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.listen(Unknown Source)
   at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.exportObject(Unknown Source)
   at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.exportObject(Unknown Source)
   at sun.rmi.transport.LiveRef.exportObject(Unknown Source)
   at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.exportObject(Unknown Source)
   at java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject.exportObject(Unknown Source)
   at java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject.exportObject(Unknown Source)
   at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter.prepare(RmiServiceExporter.java:280)
   at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter.afterPropertiesSet(RmiServiceExporter.java:227)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1203)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1172)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:427)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:249)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:155)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:246)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:160)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:291)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:352)
   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(Unknown Source)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Caused by: java.net.BindException: Address already in use
   at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native Method)
   at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(Unknown Source)
   at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(Unknown Source)
   at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(Unknown Source)
   at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(Unknown Source)
   at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.createServerSocket(Unknown Source)
   at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.createServerSocket(Unknown Source)
   at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newServerSocket(Unknown Source)
   … 46 more‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

The only file I replaced was permissionDefinitions.xml
After I modified some code, Alfresco did not work correctly.
I reverted the changes by replacing it with the backup.
Restarted Alfresco.
Still did not work.

Then I stopped the server, and replaced the ENTIRE alfresco directory with my backup. This used to work just fine before when I broke something in the past.

I am having issues re-configuring the port numbers in alfresco-global.properties

###############################
## Common Alfresco Properties #
###############################

#
# Sample custom content and index data location
#————-
dir.root=/opt/alfresco/alf_data

#
# Sample database connection properties
#————-
db.name=alfresco
db.username=alfresco
db.password=alfresco
db.host=localhost
db.port=3306

#
# External locations
#————-
ooo.exe=/usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice
#jodconverter.officeHome=./OpenOffice.org
#jodconverter.portNumbers=8101
#ooo.enabled=false
#jodconverter.enabled=true
#img.root=./ImageMagick
#swf.exe=./bin/pdf2swf

#
# MySQL connection
#————-
db.driver=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
db.url=jdbc:mysql://${db.host}:${db.port}/${db.name}

#
# Oracle connection
#
#db.driver=oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver
#db.url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:alfresco

#
# SQLServer connection
# Requires jTDS driver version 1.2.5 and SNAPSHOT isolation mode
# Enable TCP protocol on fixed port 1433
# Prepare the database with:
# ALTER DATABASE alfresco SET ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION ON; 
#
#db.driver=net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver
#db.url=jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost:1433/alfresco
#db.txn.isolation=4096

#
# PostgreSQL connection (requires postgresql-8.2-504.jdbc3.jar or equivalent)
#
#db.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
#db.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/alfresco

#
# Index Recovery Mode
#————-
#index.recovery.mode=AUTO

#
# Outbound Email Configuration
#————-
#mail.host=
#mail.port=25
#mail.username=anonymous
#mail.password=
#mail.encoding=UTF-8
#mail.from.default=alfresco@alfresco.org
#mail.smtp.auth=false

#
# Alfresco Email Service and Email Server
#————-

# Enable/Disable the inbound email service. †The service could be used by processes other than
# the Email Server (e.g. direct RMI access) so this flag is independent of the Email Service.
#————-
#email.inbound.enabled=true

# Email Server properties 
#————-
#email.server.enabled=true
#email.server.port=25
#email.server.domain=alfresco.com
#email.inbound.unknownUser=anonymous

# A comma separated list of email REGEX patterns of allowed senders.
# If there are any values in the list then all sender email addresses
# must match. †For example:
# † .*\@alfresco\.com, .*\@alfresco\.org
# Allow anyone:
#————-
#email.server.allowed.senders=.*

#
# The default authentication chain
# To configure external authentication subsystems see:
# http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Authentication_Subsystems
#————-
#authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm

#
# IMAP
#————-
#imap.server.enabled=true
#imap.server.port=143
#imap.server.host=localhost

#
# RMI Services
# To make your RMI services available from other machines you will need to change 
# alfresco.rmi.services.host from "localhost".
# alfresco.rmi.services.port=50500

#
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I tried uncommenting alfresco.rmi.servies.port=50500 and changing it to 50600. It still tried using 50501. So I reverted the changes.
I tried inserting the following lines of code

alfresco.rmi.services.port=50500
avm.rmi.service.port=50501
avmsync.rmi.service.port=50502
attribute.rmi.service.port=50503
authentication.rmi.service.port=50504
repo.rmi.service.port=50505
action.rmi.service.port=50506
deployment.rmi.service.port=50507‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

and changing avm.rmi.service.port=50501 to 50508. It still tried 50501, So I reverted the changes.

Alfresco Enterprise 3.2r

Re: Alfresco Fails to Start

venatorfox — Wed, 25 May 2011 20:48:46 GMT

After a server restart I get this now:

16:42:51,939 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertiesFactoryBean] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/repository.properties]
16:42:51,941 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertiesFactoryBean] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/domain/transaction.properties]
16:42:51,941 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertiesFactoryBean] Loading properties file from URL [file:/opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties]
16:42:52,034 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/alfresco-shared.properties]
16:42:52,588 ERROR [net.sf.ehcache.Cache] Unable to set localhost. This prevents creation of a GUID. Cause was: [domain].ne.us: [domain].ne.us
java.net.UnknownHostException: user.[domain].ne.us: user.[domain].ne.us
        at java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(Unknown Source)
        at net.sf.ehcache.Cache.<clinit>(Cache.java:155)
        at net.sf.ehcache.config.ConfigurationHelper.createCache(ConfigurationHelper.java:298)
        at net.sf.ehcache.config.ConfigurationHelper.createDefaultCache(ConfigurationHelper.java:214)
        at net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager.configure(CacheManager.java:552)
        at net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager.init(CacheManager.java:323)
        at net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager.<init>(CacheManager.java:252)
        at org.alfresco.repo.cache.InternalEhCacheManagerFactoryBean.initCacheManager(InternalEhCacheManagerFactoryBean.java:125)
        at org.alfresco.repo.cache.InternalEhCacheManagerFactoryBean.getInstance(InternalEhCacheManagerFactoryBean.java:151)
        at org.alfresco.repo.cache.InternalEhCacheManagerFactoryBean.getObject(InternalEhCacheManagerFactoryBean.java:220)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getObjectFromFactoryBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1246)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getObjectForBeanInstance(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1217)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:260)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:160)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:267)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:110)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1100)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:862)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:423)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveInnerBean(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:216)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:123)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1100)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:862)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:423)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:249)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:155)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:246)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:160)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:267)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:110)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1100)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:862)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:423)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:249)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:155)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:246)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:160)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:267)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:110)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1100)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:862)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:423)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:249)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:155)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:246)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:160)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:267)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:110)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1100)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:862)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:423)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:249)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:155)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:246)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:160)
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I really have no idea whats going on now.

Re: Alfresco Fails to Start

rmacian — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:14:19 GMT

Post your /etc/hosts

It should look similar to:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 kenpachi localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
192.168.1.140 hostname

with your hostname pointing to the IP of the server.

Re: Alfresco Fails to Start

venatorfox — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:38:50 GMT

Here is the hosts in which the Alfresco Server is running on.

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
::1      localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
‍‍‍‍‍

I just don't understand why it worked fine before and just quit working now.

hosts.allow is empty
hosts.deny is empty

CentOS

Thanks.

Re: Alfresco Fails to Start

venatorfox — Fri, 27 May 2011 20:13:45 GMT

Post your /etc/hosts

It should look similar to:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 kenpachi localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
192.168.1.140 hostname

with your hostname pointing to the IP of the server.

Turns out the machine was failing to resolve to itself.
Adding the IP and user to hosts fixed the issue. Thanks.