topic Re: Alfresco Community 5.1 does not start: Unable to find transfer home: /app:company_home/app:dictionary/app:transfers/app:transfer_groups in Alfresco Archive

Alfresco Community 5.1 does not start: Unable to find transfer home: /app:company_home/app:dictionary/app:transfers/app:transfer_groups

vladorange — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:02:40 GMT

HiWe are considering using Alfresco Community, and after installation we have imported about 40 Gb documents to the Alfresco repository and tried to work.There were some configurations performed in the meantime. One of the configuration done was configuring file transfer module (hoping to export rep

Re: Alfresco Community 5.1 does not start: Unable to find transfer home: /app:company_home/app:dictionary/app:transfers/app:transfer_groups

mitpatoliya — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:13:13 GMT

Try to run alfresco after uninstalling wcmquickstart

Uninstalling the AMP file | Alfresco Documentation

Also based on errors it seems like because of file transfer job which you might have configured.

Re: Alfresco Community 5.1 does not start: Unable to find transfer home: /app:company_home/app:dictionary/app:transfers/app:transfer_groups

afaust — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:14:48 GMT

Did anyone by any chance delete or rename a folder within the "Data Dictionary" folder, or rename the "Data Dictionary" itself? The error clearly states a path lookup failed and this can only be the result (if it worked before) if something change with regards to that path. Unfortunately, admin access allows you to rename or delete stuff in there, since most of the folders are just referenced by configured path expressions and the software wouldn't know which to lock from such changes.

Did you try other backups as a basis to start again?

Re: Alfresco Community 5.1 does not start: Unable to find transfer home: /app:company_home/app:dictionary/app:transfers/app:transfer_groups

vladorange — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:41:06 GMT

@Axel Faust, The only changes within Data Dictionary folder were related to File Transfer configuration.

I did a sequence of magic actions - creation of folder, changing its type, configuring transfer job and trying to run it several times.

In fact, the job ran several times with error and only one time with success, but no files were created.

It may happen that something was configured incorrectly with the transfer job.

Earlier we made couple of backups (including both DB and contentstore, excluding sol4 folders), and after the restore was done, the situation still persists.

Based on this I assume that either there was some change to configuration, that along with changes to the repository made System unavailable.

@Mittal Patoliya, In fact it can be the transfer job. I am 70% sure it was.

I wish I could remove/switch it off, but I cannot connect to Alfresco to do it.

This is what I am looking for - kind of Disaster Recovery. Is it possible to open a DB table and remove/change records related to this job? What could be the tables and criterias for the change?

I understand that a person who made a corrupted backup does not deserve much.

But from logical point of view, improper configuration of Data dictionary subfolders or some incorrect job should not block the startup of the entire system and block the rest of available repository (which seems to be on the place).

Assuming this, I wonder if there is some parameter to disable such behaviour, to get access to Shared folder/Sites?

I found parameters as:

system.bootstrap.config_check.strict=false
system.integrity.enabled=false
# Do integrity violations fail transactions
# WARNING: Changing this is unsupported; bugs may corrupt data
system.integrity.failOnViolation=false
transferservice.receiver.enabled=false

But they do not seem to give any effect (if I use them correctly).

P.S. Finally it is done:

- I have reinstalled alfresco

- installed AMPs

- removed wcmquickstart module

- imported db and restored contentstorage

and it took off. No idea why :-((

In the folder Data Dictionary the folder Transfer Groups disappeared (was deleted, definitely).

But anyway it launched. And the Data are available

Thank you for the help, really! Appreciate your prompt recommendations very much!

There are some minor issues I am going to solve (such as message "Alfresco is running without Share Services. See your System Administrator for more details." on home page of the logged in user). It disappears then.

What do you thing could be the reason for that?