topic Stack Trace when performing category operations in Alfresco Archive

Stack Trace when performing category operations

pitt1 — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:02:02 GMT

I have Alfresco Enterprise (trial) 1.3.1 installed (Linux/Tomcat/Oracle DB), and I'm getting all kinds of errors when it comes to categories. First of all, I go to a document, click the "view details" icon, then go to "run action" in the right panel. I select the "link item to category" option, th

Re: Stack Trace when performing category operations

paulhh — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:41:39 GMT

Hi

From the log messages, it looks like the indexes are not being found - the alf_data directory in the Alfresco installation location. This only usually happens if you've been moving things around or changing the configuration. There's a properties file in tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/ that defines the dir_root location - check what that is set to and whether there is anything at the location defined.

Cheers
Paul.

Re: Stack Trace when performing category operations

pitt1 — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:07:18 GMT

Thanks Paul, After I posted this, a colleague of mine (who apparently has superior googling skills) found several related posts

http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=1382&highlight=index+root+node
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=670&highlight=index+root+node
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=998&highlight=index+root+node

I tried modifying the dir.root in repository.properties, but we had an overide of it in custom-data-location.properties that was pointed correctly all along, so my understanding is that the one in repository.properties shouldn't matter. In any case, modifying repository.properties didn't help matters (any idea why?). I also tried re-indexing, as suggested in one of the above posts. This eventually blew out the Java heap space (we had about 4.6 million docs in the repository), and led to more problems. Is there any way to re-do indexes on large doc sets w/o running out of memory (JVM was allocated the maximum 2GB for a 32-bit machine. We ended up blowing everything away, and re-installing alfresco and categories worked this time.

We're in the process of purchasing a license, including developer support, so maybe you guys could take a look next time, because it's frightening to think we'd have to re-install to fix something like this.

Thanks a bunch
~Julie