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Error starting camunda fox in community version

zeon — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:33:25 GMT

Hi activiti community,I am urgently needing camunda fox running for studies purposes. I have a rather basic problem with the tool, I hope you let me get away posting in this forum, since I didn't find an user support specifically for camunda fox in the community edition.So, first question, does some

Re: Error starting camunda fox in community version

bernd_ruecker — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:20:35 GMT

Hi Jens.

Actually you are right, there is no separate forum for fox (yet). But I am glad to answer here 🙂

You for sure need Java installed. Afterwards starting the standalone.bat should be exactly right and work without problem. Sometimes if you install it in a sub directory with a too long name you might get an exception when extracting the zip file (for too long file names), but if the extraction works without erros there should be no show stopper at all.

Could you just double click on "standalone.bat"? Could you paste the exact output here?

You can as well search the JBoss AS 7 forum if you want (or post there), as we ship the community edition with a default JBoss AS 7.1.0.

Cheers
Bernd

Re: Error starting camunda fox in community version

zeon — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:13:29 GMT

First of all, thanks for your answer.

I still have the problem, after double- and triple-checking the installation paths of Java and camunda. There still might be an error, after all.

So I made a screenshot demonstrating the Windows Power Shell with the error and all the important OS system variables fitting in one screenshot. If needed, I'll give more details on the systems configuration.

[img]http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/7427/camundafoxinstallatione.th.png[/img]

I guess all non-german speakers could see into the problem as well, despite my german Win Server installation..

I will now look into the possibility of a problem with JBoss, thanks for pointing to that.

Regards

Re: Error starting camunda fox in community version

bernd_ruecker — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:48:18 GMT

Can you remove the "JBOSS_HOME" variable? Actually it should not be necessary (and personally I do not have that on my machine).

Could you try to start up a vanilla JBoss from here and try to startup this one: http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/. Does that work or do you have the same problem?

Ah, and I tried with the Powershell, there I get a comparable error if I just do:
C:\fox\demopoint\fox-platform-jboss7\bin> standalone.bat
I have to do:
C:\fox\demopoint\fox-platform-jboss7\bin> .\standalone.bat

So the leading ".\" seems to be important there but not in the normal Windows shell. Learned something new today 😉

Re: Error starting camunda fox in community version

ronald_van_kuij — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:29:32 GMT

Can you remove the "JBOSS_HOME" variable? Actually it should not be necessary (and personally I do not have that on my machine).

It could even screw things up if by accident it points to a wrong server

Re: Error starting camunda fox in community version

zeon — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:32:18 GMT

I removed the JBOSS_Home OS variable and downloaded JBoss as a standalone download. But I have the same problem with JBoss as with fox. You can see it in this screenshot:

http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/5687/jbossstandaloneerror.png

(Thumnail wouldn't work this time…)

Thanks for helping already, I will now dig deeper into JBoss to find out the error.

Regards

Jens

Re: Error starting camunda fox in community version

bernd_ruecker — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:35:46 GMT

Hi Jens.

THis is strange. This must be a pretty low level configuration problem, I guess related more to windows / Java as to JBoss or fox. Sorry that I cannot be a bigger help.

Good luck and cheers
Bernd