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Error :: Failed to find 'app:dictionary' node

currix — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 13:13:42 GMT

Hello,I was asked to install alfresco in a debian server, what I did installing alfresco community 3.4.d using the binary installer for linux-x32. I have been working with linux and doing system administration for quite a while but I have to admit that I have no experience whatsoever on alfresco, ap

Re: Error :: Failed to find 'app:dictionary' node

janv — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:22:07 GMT

The "app:dictionary" node corresponds to /Company Home/Data Dictionary location and is required for storing various system config in the repository. Have you or some other "admin" user inadvertently deleted this location ? If you search JIRA you will find other examples where this has happened either at the "Data Dictionary" level or below, eg. https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/MNT-7493

You could try disabling that particular job and possibly others (via custom config changes, as needed) until you can re-start your system. At this point, you could try to navigate using Alfresco Explorer and/or Admin Node Browser to see if that location/node exists. If not, then you could try checking the trashcan (via Alfresco Explorer) for "Data Dictionary" and then as admin attempt to restore it.

Alternatively (or if all else fails) then you may need to restore (a separate instance) from your last regular backup. You could then attempt to export the "Data Dictionary" from that backup and re-import back into your live instance, although this may require dedicated help from Alfresco Support (and an upgrade to Alfresco Enterprise).

Best regards,
Jan

Re: Error :: Failed to find 'app:dictionary' node

currix — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:29:38 GMT

Thank you for your detailed answer. I have checked the link that you suggest and it also seems relevant. In fact, I do not act as the alfresco admin, I have just installed it in one of our nodes. And I have been called once the problem started. But it seems that what happened is what you say. Tomorrow I will carefully try to work out a solution following your suggestions.

Regards, and thanks again,

Curro

Re: Error :: Failed to find 'app:dictionary' node

currix — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 09:42:42 GMT

Hello Jan,

I have talked with the acting Alfresco admins and they have told me that, trying to arrange in a better way the information, they deleted some directories that were empty (sigh…). I am afraid that this is what caused Alfresco to stop working, as described in the link provided in your answer.

I will try to proceed as you suggested and check if the directories are in the Trash folder. However, I do not have any idea of how to disable jobs if alfresco is not starting. I guess there is some config file where the different jobs that will be started are defined, though I have not found how to do this. I will greatly appreciate a tip on this point.

Again thanks for your help. Best regards.

Curro

Re: Error :: Failed to find 'app:dictionary' node

janv — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:08:00 GMT

I've looked at the stacktrace again and in this case it is a spring bean (ScheduledPersistedActionServiceBootstrap.onBootstrap) being invoked on startup/bootstrap rather than a job per-se.

WARNING: these steps have not been tested. Please take a full backup before proceeding (at your own risk) !

Temporarily edit the bootstrap.xml file in the exploded war and comment-out the bean …


<!– TEMP
   <bean id="scheduledPersistedActionServiceBootstrap" class="org.alfresco.repo.action.scheduled.ScheduledPersistedActionServiceImpl$ScheduledPersistedActionServiceBootstrap">
       <property name="scheduledPersistedActionService" ref="scheduledPersistedActionService" />
       <property name="transactionHelper" ref="retryingTransactionHelper" />
    </bean>
–>
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

… once you have a recovered your system, shutdown and then reverse the change (ie. comment the bean back in), re-start and re-test.

However, you may find that there are other bootstrap beans and/or jobs that also depend on the "Data Dictionary" (or below).

If you are in any doubt (or for future peace of mind) I would highly recommend that you consider Enterprise + Support.

Best regards,
Jan

Re: Error :: Failed to find 'app:dictionary' node

midoscofield — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:31:25 GMT

Hello,
This solution is for Sheduled action folder,but how about the rendering action root node? i cannot disable the checking for this folder.
Any idea please?