topic Re: Virtualisation Server not started in Alfresco Archive

Virtualisation Server not started

grumpy_burton — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:02:04 GMT

Hi all,I've just downloaded and installed the AlfrescoCommunity-2.0Preview-Setup.exe using its JDK and HSQL on a winXP box and get the following after following the WCM_BETA_Eval_Guide.pdf tutorial and trying to preview the web siteINFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource 22/02/

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

damonrand — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:12:34 GMT

Hi,
I'm getting this error as well.. I had virtualisation working in the first beta release. I'm using the WAR distrib.

Damon.

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

rbramley — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:22:34 GMT

Have you run virtual_start to start the Virtual Tomcat instance?

If not, you'll see that output a few minutes after running alf_start.

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

grumpy_burton — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:55:11 GMT

Not seperately… no… but I just downloaded the GA version and started tutorial again. All worked perfectly.

Very nice work

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

sirclueless — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:52:13 GMT

I have the same problem that the virtualisation server not started.
After the first time I had installed Alfresco 2.0 everything worked fine. Now if a stopped the server and shut down the pc , it doesn`t work no more. I always get the message : virtualisation server not started.
But I started the server and if I start the server I get the following message:
This release of Apache Tomcat was packaged to run on J2SE 5.0 or later. It can be run earlier JVMs by downloading and installing a compatibility package from the Apache Tomcat binarydownload page.

and then the window closed.

Can somebody help me ?? Cause I can't test my website without a virtualisation.

Thanks for help

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

grumpy_burton — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:31:00 GMT

Did you try starting it seperately? i.e. virtual_start and have you checked you are using a 1.5 JVM?

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

sirclueless — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:07:13 GMT

Yes I started seperatly and yes I have the actually Version of JVM. That`s crazy !! I don`t understand why it works the first time and if I shut down my pc and wanna start again alfresco virtualisation server it doesn`t work.

Have somebody else this problem too, or can somebody help me???

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

mattruby — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:31:15 GMT

OK, I'm not sure if this will help at all, but I had the same problem and this helped. You need the Alfresco server to be fully running before the virtualisation server starts. I modified the alfresco.bat file with the following:

rem ———————————
rem Start Virtualization if available
rem ———————————
ECHO Please wait for the Alfresco server to start, then press any key to continue.
PAUSE
if exist "%~dp0virtual_start.bat" call "%~dp0virtual_start.bat"

This is far from a good solution, but it has worked for me. Just wait for the Alfresco server to fire up completely, then hit any key to fire up the rest.

Good luck.

-Matt

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

jcox — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:44:14 GMT

The virtualization server will just emit warnings until the alfersco webapp
is up. Once, the Alfresco webapp is fully initialized, the virtualization
server will connect to it, and will stop issuing warnings.

Therefore, you don't need to take any special measures to "baby sit"
the startup. For that reason, I recommend that you remove the
modifications you've made to this bat file – they aren't necessary.

In the future, I'll try to make this warning more explicit.

Cheers,
-Jon

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

mattruby — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:15:17 GMT

OK, I just installed a fresh copy of Alfresco 2.0 + WCM. When I fired it up the first time, the virtualization server came up. When I tried re-starting the server, the virtualization server fails quickly and quietly when alfresco startup hit's the following:

13:10:03,960 WARN [remoting.rmi.RmiRegistryFactoryBean] Could not detect RMI registry - creating new one

Any ideas on where I could look to solve this issue? The pause in the .bat file is certainly not a solution. But it has worked for me.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

rkylberg — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:29:49 GMT

I have also found that the virtualization server startup with the community version is unreliable (linux.fc5 and mac).

Although it is supposed to throw errors until a connection with the Alfresco webapp is made (see jcox above) this doesn't always work.

I have had to start the virtualization server manually after starting the alfresco webapp to get a stable environment:


./alfresco.sh start 
<wait until startup is complete>
./virtual_start.sh
‍‍‍‍‍

This is the manual version of mattruby's solution and is a hassle, but it works every time.

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

tezbir — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:08:18 GMT

Hi
I have just installed alfresco-community-wcm-2.0 _WCM
and was following the WCM_BETA_Eval_Guide.pdf document .
Got the following error when I clicked on preview website:

Server Error
The following error occurred:

 Cannot connect due to potential loopback problems 


——————————————————————————–
Please contact the administrator.‍‍‍‍‍

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

tezbir — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:10:15 GMT

14:31:07,034 WARN [app.servlet.AuthenticationHelper] Unable to login as Guest:
Access Denied. You do not have the appropriate permissions to perform this oper
ation.
14:31:53,489 WARN [web.config.ClientConfigElement] Virtualisation Server not st
arted - reverting to default IP: 127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
14:31:53,489 WARN [web.config.ClientConfigElement] Virtualisation Server not st
arted - reverting to default port: 8180

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

kvc — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:24:30 GMT

The virtualization server will just emit warnings until the alfersco webapp
is up. Once, the Alfresco webapp is fully initialized, the virtualization
server will connect to it, and will stop issuing warnings.

Therefore, you don't need to take any special measures to "baby sit"
the startup. For that reason, I recommend that you remove the
modifications you've made to this bat file – they aren't necessary.

In the future, I'll try to make this warning more explicit.

Cheers,
-Jon

Yikes! Actually, definately include the PAUSE in the start-up script. The problem: the virt server only waits for a certain period of time before shutting down. The pause allows you to ensure the Alfresco server is started before the virt server tries and comes up.

This will be fixed in the start-up script for our upcoming 2.0.1 maintenance release and all upcoming community builds.

Kevin

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

jcox — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:56:36 GMT

Kevin,

If for some reason your virtualization server is shutting down early,
you must have some other problem in your configuration.
It is a very bad idea to start introducing things like PAUSE.
Don't do it – you're only masking a deeper problem on your
machine that is sure to emerge elsewhere.

Actually, definately include the PAUSE in the start-up script.
The problem: the virt server only waits for a certain period of time
before shutting down.

This is not true.

I'm assuming that if you're running on Windows, you've installed
the virtualization server as a Windows service. If not, depending
on where your output is going, you may end up blocking your
process on output. Be sure everything is installed as a service
and you start/stop via the Windows service manager console.

On both Windows and UNIX you can start the servers in any order.
To observe this first-hand, deliberately start the virtualization server first,
then tail its log files. As the virtualization server starts up, it will
complain about how it cannot connect to the Alfresco server
(as you'd expect). Let it run for hours if you'd like. The virtualization
server *never* gives up.

Now start the tomcat instance that hosts the Alfresco webapp.
It's useful to monitor its logfiles also.

What happens is revealing.
Assuming you're running on Windows, and you've got Tomcat set up
as a service, the service manager will claim that the Alfresco tomcat
is up long before the webapp itself is fully up. Thus, if all you're looking
at is the logfile for the virtualzation server and the Windows service
console it seems like the Alfresco Tomcat has started yet the
virtualization server is still looking for it. However, the Windows
service manager declares "mission accomplished" very early in
the game … and there's a considerable delay until the Alfresco webapp
is responsive to the lonesome cries of the virtualization server!
If you are monitoring the logfiles from both tomcats you can see
what's happening.

As soon as the Alfresco webapp is *actually* up, the virtualizaton server
connects to it just as easily as if the Alfresco webapp had started first.

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

jcox — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:37:23 GMT

The two windows machines I'm testing on installed
the virt server as a service. Unfortunately, the
default installer has the virt server running as a
console app. This which is not good,
due to the IO blocking issue I referenced earlier.

To understand why adding a PAUSE to the starup scripts
is such a bad solution, consider this: if the virt server
hangs on blocked IO after a few minutes of not being
able to contact the Alfresco webapp, inserting a PAUSE
just prevents the logging of *these* initial errors from
filling up the blocking IO buffers & triggering the hang.
However, the underlying problem of blocking on log IO
remains… therefore, when running as a console app,
logged messages after startup will have the same effect.
You won't notice it right away though, because post-starup
errors/warnings are typically less frequent and less verbose;
eventually, you'll still hang.

This bug has been filed in JIRA as:
http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/WCM-422

Hopefully, we can get a fairly quick fix out there,
but in the meanwhile, I suggest that Windows users
install the virt server as a service on their own,
instead of running as a console app & inserting a PAUSE.

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

invantix — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:36:28 GMT

The pause worked for me but I thought you might want the stack trace from before I added the pause.

In my case the v server tries repeatedly displaying
WARNING: Retrying JNDI connection….
and loads and unloads beans and properties…

finally before closing it reports:

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        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:585)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:294)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
   Error creating bean with name 'authenticationService'
      defined in URL [file:C:/Alfresco/virtual-tomcat/conf/alfresco-virtserver-context.xml]:
      Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.rmi.NotBoundException: authentication
           at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:370)
           at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:226)

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

heiho1 — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:04:12 GMT

I'm trying to run the virtualization server for alfresco from a HEAD build of subversion checked out yesterday. I have the main virtualization server running fine and the build outputs all of the configuration files to the virtual tomcat location as well as the standard webapp output. However, when I start the main tomcat instance using the standard startup.bat file, the main instance runs fine but launching the second tomcat does not.

Is it possible to run the virtualization server from a Subversion build?

Thanks,

James

Re: Virtualisation Server not started

jcox — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:55:48 GMT

Depending on your configuration, a PAUSE worked around WCM-750.
This issue has just been resolved in Alfresco 2.1 E.
PAUSE will become unnecessary in all configurations.