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WAR install schemaBootstrap err on startup with Tomcat/MySQL

jason_botwick — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:45:41 GMT

Hi,I'm trying to get Alfresco running on SuSE 10.1Tomcat 5MySQL 5.0.18mysql-connector-java-5.0.3-bin.jar (installed at /srv/www/tomcat5/base/common/lib; note the "base" directory is the tomcat root directory under the SuSE install)# java -versionjava version "1.5.0_06"Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment,

Re: WAR install schemaBootstrap err on startup with Tomcat/MySQL

jason_botwick — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:47:36 GMT

Resolved:

Well, as it turns out, the key information was at the end of that huge error message, not at the beginning . . . I didn't realize that the data directory specified by dir.root had to be created on the filesystem manually.

Is that documented somewhere? I haven't been able to find it, but I might've missed it–searching capabilities on these forums and the wiki seem really poor.

Re: WAR install schemaBootstrap err on startup with Tomcat/MySQL

rivetlogic — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:16:10 GMT

Hi,

Alfresco is supposed to create the dir.root path on the filesystem for you as long as it has the permissions to do so. Looks like it failed when trying to create it:

[org.alfresco.repo.content.filestore.FileContentStore]; constructor threw exception; nested exception is org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException: Failed to create store root: /srv/alfresco/data/audit.contentstore‍

Were you running as a user other than root? If so, did the user have the appropriate permissions to create dir.root?

Regards,

–Aladdin

Re: WAR install schemaBootstrap err on startup with Tomcat/MySQL

jason_botwick — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:12:39 GMT

I didn't think of that. The Tomcat server runs as the 'tomcat' user, and didn't have permissions to write to the directory where the dir.root was set to be created.

This might be a good thing to have in the install docs. In my case, the location where dir.root is going to be ploppped isn't allowed to be writable by 'tomcat' because of biziness rules; I'm sure there are other folks with similar constraints.

Re: WAR install schemaBootstrap err on startup with Tomcat/MySQL

joseph_curtis_t — Sat, 26 May 2007 09:15:46 GMT

Resolved:

Well, as it turns out, the key information was at the end of that huge error message, not at the beginning . . . I didn't realize that the data directory specified by dir.root had to be created on the filesystem manually.

Is that documented somewhere? I haven't been able to find it, but I might've missed it–searching capabilities on these forums and the wiki seem really poor.

where did you create the directory.