topic Re: Startup error after installation in Alfresco Archive

Startup error after installation

manfred99 — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:37:01 GMT

Hi@all!I am new to Alfresco and need some installation help - thank you!After doing a manual install of the version 1.3 "war" to an existing tomcat 5.5 under win2k I get the following error messages:———————————snip————————————-08.09.2006 15:13:23 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol initINFO:

Re: Startup error after installation

kevinr — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:11:47 GMT

See the README file for info on downloading and adding the MySQL driver JAR to tomcat.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Startup error after installation

manfred99 — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:11:57 GMT

Shame on me - sorry for that!

Now, Tomcat comes up with the following messages:

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08.09.2006 17:48:30 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
08.09.2006 17:48:30 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 687 ms
08.09.2006 17:48:31 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
08.09.2006 17:48:31 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.17
08.09.2006 17:48:31 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
08.09.2006 17:48:31 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
08.09.2006 17:48:40 net.sf.joott.uno.UnoConnection connect
INFO: connecting using "socket,host=localhost,port=8100,tcpNoDelay=1"…
08.09.2006 17:48:41 net.sf.joott.uno.UnoConnection connect
SCHWERWIEGEND: connection failed: com.sun.star.connection.NoConnectException: ja
va.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
08.09.2006 17:48:42 net.sf.joott.uno.UnoConnection connect
INFO: connecting using "socket,host=localhost,port=8100,tcpNoDelay=1"…
08.09.2006 17:48:42 net.sf.joott.uno.UnoConnection connect
SCHWERWIEGEND: connection failed: com.sun.star.connection.NoConnectException: ja
va.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
17:48:44,653 INFO [admin.patch.PatchExecuter] Checking for patches to apply …

17:48:44,716 INFO [admin.patch.PatchExecuter] No patches were required.
17:48:44,997 ERROR [alfresco.ftp.protocol] FTP Socket error
java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native Method)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(PlainSocketImpl.java:359)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(ServerSocket.java:319)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(ServerSocket.java:185)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(ServerSocket.java:141)
        at org.alfresco.filesys.ftp.FTPNetworkServer.run(FTPNetworkServer.java:3
81)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
17:48:45,013 INFO [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - v1.5.0_
06-b05; maximum heap size 63,563MB
17:48:45,013 WARN [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - WARNING
- maximum heap size 63,563MB is less than recommended 512MB
17:48:45,013 INFO [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco started (Comm
unity Network): Current version 1.3.0 schema 14 - Installed version 1.3.0 schema
14
08.09.2006 17:48:47 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
08.09.2006 17:49:23 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
08.09.2006 17:49:23 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/31 config=null
08.09.2006 17:49:23 org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
08.09.2006 17:49:23 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 52625 ms
17:50:21,747 WARN [app.servlet.AuthenticationHelper] Unable to login as Guest:
Access Denied. You do not have the appropriate permissions to perform this opera
tion.
17:51:55,294 WARN [app.servlet.AuthenticationHelper] Unable to login as Guest:
Access Denied. You do not have the appropriate permissions to perform this opera
tion.
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http://localhost:8080/alfresco presents a login form. But when I try to login as admin/admin (as described in the readme) it responds with "Unable to login - unknown username/password."

alfrescoUserStore.xm (where I found the admin user) contains:
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<view:view xmlns:view="http://www.alfresco.org/view/repository/1.0"
           xmlns:cm="http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0"
           xmlns:sys="http://www.alfresco.org/model/system/1.0"
           xmlns:usr="http://www.alfresco.org/model/user/1.0"
           xmlns:app="http://www.alfresco.org/model/application/1.0">

    <sys:container view:childName="${alfresco_user_store.system_container.childname}">
        <sys:children>
            <sys:container view:childName="${alfresco_user_store.user_container.childname}">
                <sys:children>
                    <usr:user view:childName="usr:user">
                        <usr:username>admin</usr:username>
                        <usrassword>209c6174da490caeb422f3fa5a7ae634</usrassword>
                        <usr:enabled>true</usr:enabled>
                        <usr:accountExpires>false</usr:accountExpires>
                        <usr:credentialsExpire>false</usr:credentialsExpire>
                        <usr:accountLocked>false</usr:accountLocked>
                    </usr:user>
                </sys:children>
            </sys:container>
        </sys:children>
    </sys:container>

</view:view>
———————————–snip——————————–

Thank you for helping again!

Re: Startup error after installation

kevinr — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:48:12 GMT

Have you started the application from a different start directory? This error occurs when the alf_data directory cannot be found in the same location. If you search your system you'll probably find two "alf_data" directories. Start the app from the original start location and it will work fine.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Startup error after installation

manfred99 — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:38:38 GMT

Have you started the application from a different start directory?

What do you mean? Alfresco is started by Tomcat. No changes in directory structure…

This error occurs when the alf_data directory cannot be found in the same location. If you search your system you'll probably find two "alf_data" directories. Start the app from the original start location and it will work fine.

alf_data is in tomcat\bin - there is no other alf_data in \tomcat

Again: The login form is presented, but I cannot login with admin/admin.

Re: Startup error after installation

heiko_robert — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:27:27 GMT

hi manfred,

in repository.properties the file repository is defined as .alf_data which is located relative to the directory the tomcat process is started up.
So if somewhen tomcat is launched from another directory the files containing the admin user node is not found relative from that directory.

The easiest way to work around that is to activate the customation files by removing the .sample suffix from:
tomcat\shared\classes\custom-db-and-data-context.xml
tomcat\shared\classes\custom-data-location.properties
tomcat\shared\classes\custom-db-connection.properties

then you set an absolute path in custom-data-location.properties to your alf_data directory created during inital startup.

If you don't have important data in alfresco the easiest way is to remove any alf_data and to drop and recreate the database.
Regards
Heiko

Re: Startup error after installation

manfred99 — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:49:17 GMT

After dropping and recreating the database - I can use Alfesco.

I believe my mistake was to startup Alfresco for the first time without any modifications - just to see if it runs. And afterwards changing the tomcat\share\classes\alfresco\extension\….. files to point to the final data location. I guess, Alfresco stores this location also in the database when run for the first time…

If this assumption is correct, I would recommend to include a "special warning" in the readme to prevent this scenario.

I would also like to know the procedure for changing the data location when a lot of data is stored there. Can you tell how?

Thank you very much for your support!

Re: Startup error after installation

heiko_robert — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:58:52 GMT

Hi Manfred,

what do you mean by

procedure for changing the data location when a lot of data is stored there

?

You can can point the file repository to any directory you want. Since users are also stored in that directory you can't login pointing to an empty directory once you started up the first time, but you can easyly move that directory where you want to.

Regards
Heiko

Re: Startup error after installation

manfred99 — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:40:03 GMT

Heiko,

Since users are also stored in that directory you can't login pointing to an empty directory once you started up the first time, but you can easyly move that directory where you want to.

This answers my question - I assumed that users would reside inside a MySQL table.

This issue can be closed - thank's a lot!