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Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:13:20 GMT

Hi there,I have just changed values in this file:/opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-client-config.xmlI changed some listing values from 10 - 100I did /opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh stopthen I did /opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh startand now I keep getting this error:HTTP Status

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:50:30 GMT

I have been checking some more, but I also don't see port 21 or 139 open by alfresco, any help from the alfresco engineers would be greatly appreciated!

winston

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:48:34 GMT

I made a simple change to one little file.
My server won't start now, and I fail to understand why.

My server doesn't open the port 21, it doesnt open the port 139
The database is running, apache is running and none of my configs changed.
Where can I look to solve this?

The last log I see in the alfresco directory is this:

root@www:~# tail -f /opt/alfresco/alfresco.log.2007-08-21
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.acegi.ACLEntryAfterInvocationProvider.decide(ACLEntryAfterInvocationProvider.java:299)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.acegi.ACLEntryAfterInvocationProvider.decide(ACLEntryAfterInvocationProvider.java:316)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.acegi.ACLEntryAfterInvocationProvider.decide(ACLEntryAfterInvocationProvider.java:200)
        at net.sf.acegisecurity.afterinvocation.AfterInvocationProviderManager.decide(AfterInvocationProviderManager.java:107)
        at net.sf.acegisecurity.intercept.AbstractSecurityInterceptor.afterInvocation(AbstractSecurityInterceptor.java:329)
        at net.sf.acegisecurity.intercept.method.aopalliance.MethodSecurityInterceptor.invoke(MethodSecurityInterceptor.java:82)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:170)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.ExceptionTranslatorMethodInterceptor.invoke(ExceptionTranslatorMethodInterceptor.java:49)
        … 38 more
16:54:25,783 ERROR [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] java.io.IOException: Bad format, unexpected type

There are no log for today, why not I ask myself?

I see this in the catalina logs:

root@www:~# tail -f /opt/alfresco/tomcat/logs/catalina.2007-08-22.log
        at org.quartz.core.QuartzSchedulerThread.run(QuartzSchedulerThread.java:313)
2007/08/22 01:44:37 org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass
INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load org.alfresco.repo.avm.OrphanReaper$1TxnWork. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.
java.lang.IllegalStateException
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1241)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1201)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
        at org.alfresco.repo.avm.OrphanReaper.doBatch(OrphanReaper.java:340)
        at org.alfresco.repo.avm.OrphanReaper.run(OrphanReaper.java:213)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Winston

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:24:05 GMT

OK, some more interresting logs:

I see the logs complain about SEVERE: Error listenerStart
So I am investigating this one for now.

2007/08/22 02:45:30 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
2007/08/22 02:45:30 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.20
2007/08/22 02:45:30 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
2007/08/22 02:45:34 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
2007/08/22 02:46:17 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
2007/08/22 02:46:17 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
2007/08/22 02:46:18 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
2007/08/22 02:46:18 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
2007/08/22 02:46:25 org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass
INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load cryptix.jce.provider.md.MD4. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.
java.lang.IllegalStateException
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1241)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1201)
        at java.security.Provider$Service.getImplClass(Provider.java:1172)
        at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Provider.java:1129)
        at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:220)
        at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:147)
        at java.security.Security.getImpl(Security.java:658)
        at java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance(MessageDigest.java:122)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.MD4PasswordEncoderImpl.<clinit>(MD4PasswordEncoderImpl.java:61)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:242)
        at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:108)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.createBeanDefinition(BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.java:65)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitionElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:426)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitionElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:392)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:307)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:191)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:295)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:223)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:126)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:142)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:325)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:298)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:191)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:295)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:223)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:126)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:142)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:126)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:89)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:269)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:134)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3763)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4211)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:809)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:698)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:472)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551)
        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)
2007/08/22 02:46:42 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
2007/08/22 02:46:42 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
2007/08/22 02:46:43 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
2007/08/22 02:46:44 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
2007/08/22 02:46:44 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/117 config=null
2007/08/22 02:46:44 org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
2007/08/22 02:46:44 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 73814 ms


So here is what I do!

1. stop apache, alfresco, kill java and make sure no sockets are in use.

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:41766         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:3306          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:47286         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:41766         127.0.0.1:47072         ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:47072         127.0.0.1:41766         ESTABLISHED
tcp6       0      0 :::993                  :::*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::995                  :::*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::110                  :::*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::143                  :::*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0 624 ::ffff:196.36.166.182:22 ::ffff:196.36.166.123:45504 ESTABLISHED
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:68              0.0.0.0:*
Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established)

as you can see all sockets are clean.

2. now i start alfresco

/opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh start

Now I watch the logs,

here they are:

2007/08/22 02:45:30 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
2007/08/22 02:45:30 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.20
2007/08/22 02:45:30 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
2007/08/22 02:45:34 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
2007/08/22 02:46:17 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
2007/08/22 02:46:17 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
2007/08/22 02:46:18 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
2007/08/22 02:46:18 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
2007/08/22 02:46:25 org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass
INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load cryptix.jce.provider.md.MD4. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.
java.lang.IllegalStateException
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1241)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1201)
        at java.security.Provider$Service.getImplClass(Provider.java:1172)
        at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Provider.java:1129)
        at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:220)
        at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:147)
        at java.security.Security.getImpl(Security.java:658)
        at java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance(MessageDigest.java:122)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.MD4PasswordEncoderImpl.<clinit>(MD4PasswordEncoderImpl.java:61)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:242)
        at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:108)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.createBeanDefinition(BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.java:65)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitionElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:426)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitionElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:392)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:307)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:191)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:295)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:223)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:126)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:142)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:325)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:298)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:191)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:295)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:223)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:126)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:142)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:126)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:89)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:269)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:134)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3763)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4211)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:809)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:698)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:472)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551)
        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)
2007/08/22 02:46:42 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
2007/08/22 02:46:42 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
2007/08/22 02:46:43 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
2007/08/22 02:46:44 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
2007/08/22 02:46:44 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/117 config=null
2007/08/22 02:46:44 org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
2007/08/22 02:46:44 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 73814 ms


Once again I see SEVERE: Error listenerStart
why?

none of the ports were in use?

Alfresco gurus, i need some input man, please feel free to help me out as i am at a loss,
i might add, that this is a production server so your application is letting me down, BIG TIME

some input would be great at this stage

winston

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:21:55 GMT

everything goes wrong with this
SEVERE: Error listenerStart

this has given me major pains in the past and its still doing it.
why is this such a big issue?
if this listener doesnt start then you are left with a useless server, now i cant reach my data even over port 80 or 8080 just because the listener failed to open port 21 and 139

this is not good to me at all and i believe that improvements can be made.
as for my problem, see above, still not fixed!

people are phoning asking, what's up, and the truth is i dont know.
my server was working, one consultant requested that i increase the listing from 10 to 100, i did this, restarted the server and since then its been a down hill slide

guys, really now, this is not on!

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

mark_smithson — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:42:24 GMT

Hi Winston,

Have you tried changing the setting back and restarting Alfresco, or better still restoring the original config file? That might get your server back up and working again.

If you have already tried this, are you sure that nothing else changed on the server?

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:45:38 GMT

Hey Mark,

I have reversed the changes.
These lines are the lines I touched.
in this file
/opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-client-config.xml

<!– allowable values: list|details|icons –>
               <view>icons</view>
               <page-size>
                  <list>10</list>
                  <details>10</details>
                  <icons>9</icons>
               </page-size>
            </browse>
            <forums>
<!– allowable values: list|details|icons –>
             <view>list</view>
               <page-size>
                  <list>20</list>
                  <details>20</details>
                  <icons>20</icons>
               </page-size>
            </forums>
            <forum>
<!– allowable values: details –>
               <view>details</view>
               <page-size>
                  <details>20</details>
               </page-size>
            </forum>

I just changed the 10's to 100's
Thought it was gonna be a simple "in and out" :lol:

Now my server is down and I'm not sure why.

The catalina log file gives me this first warning and I'm worried about this,
SEVERE: Error listenerStart

From there it's a downhill slide..

My setup is simple. I have Apache listening on 80 (Apache is fine)
handing requests to via mod_jk to tomcat port 8080
I have not touched apache or tomcat, they were working perfect until I stopped and start.

Think it could be java? I am running it on ubuntu but I havn't done any updated lately though.

Any advice is most welcome as I kinda have to fix this super quick.
It's a fairly busy server and well, my phone is ringing all the time now.
:x

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

rdanner — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:00:05 GMT

Hi Winston,

The error message saying that the alfresco application has already been stopped is a key point here. You cant access anything because the web app (Alfresco) is not running due to previous errors.

Spring configuration can be picky – any when it blows up (spring), it blows up in spectacular form. Malformed spring and configuration files can cause the issues you are seeing.

I agree, you should consider replacing your install with a fresh install and then make your changes one by one testing at each change that you have not corrupted the configuration. You don't appear to have made many changes – so this is a feasible approach – and this approach is going to make it clear what change broke the app.

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

stc_mis — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:45:28 GMT

i don't think one by one test is a good idea , it takes times!
why Alfresco members don't post the reference document for this issue ?

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:21:55 GMT

Good morning gentlemen,

Thank you for the posts, I really appreciate the fresh minds and the support.
I will follow rdanner's advice and do a clean install. This means I will:

-stop tomcat
-remove everything in the webapps directory, leaving ROOT
-copy over a fresh alfresco.war
-start tomcat

I am leaving my alf_data alone as it's extremely valuable to me, and it's over 20GB :lol:

I am going to try this now and will post my results,
is this the correct way to "re-install"?

Wins

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:27:15 GMT

OK I have now stopped tomcat, none of my ports are open as you can see below:

Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:41766         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:3306          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:47286         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:41766         127.0.0.1:47072         ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:47072         127.0.0.1:41766         ESTABLISHED
tcp6       0      0 :::993                  :::*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::995                  :::*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::443                  :::*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0 48 ::ffff:196.36.166.182:22 ::ffff:41.208.238.211:51864 ESTABLISHED
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:68              0.0.0.0:*

Now, I will start alfresco and check my logs.

Darn!
:twisted:

I see this has failed again.

root@www:~# tail -f /opt/alfresco/tomcat/logs/catalina.2007-08-23.log
2007/08/23 08:24:20 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1412 ms
2007/08/23 08:24:20 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
2007/08/23 08:24:20 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.20
2007/08/23 08:24:20 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
2007/08/23 08:24:23 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
2007/08/23 08:25:11 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
2007/08/23 08:25:11 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
2007/08/23 08:25:12 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
2007/08/23 08:25:12 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
2007/08/23 08:25:17 org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass
INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load cryptix.jce.provider.md.MD4. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.
java.lang.IllegalStateException
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1241)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1201)
        at java.security.Provider$Service.getImplClass(Provider.java:1172)
        at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Provider.java:1129)
        at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:220)
        at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:147)
        at java.security.Security.getImpl(Security.java:658)
        at java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance(MessageDigest.java:122)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.MD4PasswordEncoderImpl.<clinit>(MD4PasswordEncoderImpl.java:61)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:242)
        at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:108)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.createBeanDefinition(BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.java:65)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitionElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:426)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitionElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:392)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:307)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:191)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:295)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:223)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:126)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:142)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:325)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:298)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:191)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:295)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:223)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:126)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:142)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:126)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:89)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:269)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:134)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3763)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4211)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:809)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:698)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:472)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551)
        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)
2007/08/23 08:25:36 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
2007/08/23 08:25:36 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
2007/08/23 08:25:37 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
2007/08/23 08:25:37 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
2007/08/23 08:25:37 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/74 config=null
2007/08/23 08:25:37 org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
2007/08/23 08:25:38 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 77779 ms
2007/08/23 08:26:02 org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass
INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load org.quartz.StatefulJob. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.
java.lang.IllegalStateException
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1241)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1201)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
        at org.quartz.JobDetail.class$(JobDetail.java:279)
        at org.quartz.JobDetail.isStateful(JobDetail.java:425)
        at org.quartz.simpl.RAMJobStore.triggerFired(RAMJobStore.java:1296)
        at org.quartz.core.QuartzSchedulerThread.run(QuartzSchedulerThread.java:313)
2007/08/23 08:26:04 org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass
INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load org.alfresco.repo.avm.OrphanReaper$1TxnWork. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.
java.lang.IllegalStateException
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1241)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1201)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
        at org.alfresco.repo.avm.OrphanReaper.doBatch(OrphanReaper.java:340)
        at org.alfresco.repo.avm.OrphanReaper.run(OrphanReaper.java:213)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)


Alfresco engineers, at this point I must urge you to disclose more information to me. I cannot understand this listener and why it doesn't want to open the ports I need.

Please hook a brother up!

Wins

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:14:15 GMT

OK,

Consulted the alfresco wiki to set up my ftp settings.

added the following to my /opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/file-servers.xml

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="FTP Server">
          <serverEnable enabled="true"/>
          <port>21</port>
          <bindto>0.0.0.0</bindto>
          <rootDirectory>/Alfresco/</rootDirectory>
          <debug flags="log4j.logger.org.alfresco.ftp.protocol=debug"/>
<!–      <debug flags="File,Search,Error,Directory,Info,DataPort"/> –>
</config>

I also made sure that these two files are the same:

/opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/file-servers.xml
/opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/file-servers-custom.xml

Still I get that damn listener error,
How in pete's name do you debug that thing?

Oh and alfresco, I don't know what your paid support is like, but your community support is slow man, way slow,
don't see this as a negative, you can see my posts, you can see I am trying here, still it's been over a day and not one peep out of you guys.

I am sorry but that's just lame

Wins

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:36:08 GMT

OK,

changed all my values to false in this file
/opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/file-servers.xml

my goal was to see if i set cifs server and ftp server to false maybe this head ache will go away, and yet it hasn't made any difference.

i still see the same error log.

root@www:~# tail -f /opt/alfresco/tomcat/logs/catalina.2007-08-23.log
2007/08/23 09:32:08 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1415 ms
2007/08/23 09:32:08 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
2007/08/23 09:32:08 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.20
2007/08/23 09:32:08 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
2007/08/23 09:32:11 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
2007/08/23 09:32:54 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
2007/08/23 09:32:54 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
2007/08/23 09:32:56 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
2007/08/23 09:32:56 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
2007/08/23 09:33:03 org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass
INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load cryptix.jce.provider.md.MD4. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.
java.lang.IllegalStateException
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1241)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1201)
        at java.security.Provider$Service.getImplClass(Provider.java:1172)
        at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Provider.java:1129)
        at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:220)
        at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:147)
        at java.security.Security.getImpl(Security.java:658)
        at java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance(MessageDigest.java:122)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.MD4PasswordEncoderImpl.<clinit>(MD4PasswordEncoderImpl.java:61)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:242)
        at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:108)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.createBeanDefinition(BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.java:65)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitionElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:426)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitionElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:392)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:307)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:191)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:295)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:223)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:126)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:142)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:325)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:298)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:191)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:295)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:223)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:126)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:142)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:126)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:89)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:269)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:134)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3763)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4211)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:809)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:698)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:472)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551)
        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)
2007/08/23 09:33:21 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
2007/08/23 09:33:21 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
2007/08/23 09:33:22 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
2007/08/23 09:33:22 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
2007/08/23 09:33:23 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/65 config=null
2007/08/23 09:33:23 org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
2007/08/23 09:33:23 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 74987 ms
2007/08/23 09:33:48 org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass
INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load org.quartz.StatefulJob. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.
java.lang.IllegalStateException
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1241)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1201)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
        at org.quartz.JobDetail.class$(JobDetail.java:279)
        at org.quartz.JobDetail.isStateful(JobDetail.java:425)
        at org.quartz.simpl.RAMJobStore.triggerFired(RAMJobStore.java:1296)
        at org.quartz.core.QuartzSchedulerThread.run(QuartzSchedulerThread.java:313)
2007/08/23 09:33:49 org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass
INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load org.alfresco.repo.avm.OrphanReaper$1TxnWork. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.
java.lang.IllegalStateException
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1241)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1201)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
        at org.alfresco.repo.avm.OrphanReaper.doBatch(OrphanReaper.java:340)
        at org.alfresco.repo.avm.OrphanReaper.run(OrphanReaper.java:213)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)


I ask again, how do i debug the listener, and why is this thing so full of well, you know what i mean
:lol:

I am open to suggestions here as nothing will make this server come back up.
:roll:

on another note:

this server houses the data for the FIFA 2010 world cup football stadium in cape town, south africa. i can see major advertising opportunity here as initially we were going to let aconex http://www.aconex.com handle this for us. eventually the decision was made to stick to alfresco.

I have encouraged many architectural firms here in south africa to use alfresco, and one of them is already investigating how alfresco can work for them.

see this email:

Subject: Alfresco document management system

Elza

I hope you can recall we did speak some time ago about the Alfresco
document management system.

As I mentioned to you, I will be in cape Town next week. I will make
contact with you on Monday next week to gauge your availability to meet
for an hour or so.

My contact details are below, including my cell number. Please call
should you have any queries.

–
Regards
Pradesh Chanderpaul

nTier Software Services
http://www.ntier.co.za
+27 (0)11 781 5744 (office)
+27 (0)82 654 5765 (mobile)

So it's not like i am not doing my part to promote your brand!
I can see a huge 10 meter by 5 meter bill board right infront of the new stadium being build say "Alfresco, making this possible" or something marketing related.

but this isn't the way to encourage me guys.
support is no where to be found, and it seems you guys don't care.

15 posts later and no one from the alfresco team has even said "hi man, sorry for your trouble, let's se where we can make it better"

So it's not cool man

will keep posting about my experience and hopefully this post will end in a resolution soon

thanks for the support from the other community members

wins

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:07:17 GMT

OK I have spoken with Pradesh from nTier Software Services
they do have support in johannesburg and I am waiting for one of these guys to get back to me, maybe I can grab a support contract and have this issue resolved.

:lol:

what a laugh though!
this kind of defeat the purpose of this forum

wins

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

mikeh — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:15:48 GMT

Hi,

It sounds like something else has changed on your server other than the configuration files - could something have been updated like the JDK perhaps?

It's a little old, but this forum post looks like the same problem you're having:
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=966

The listenerStart error is a bit of a red herring - it means the application couldn't deploy, not specifcally that some TCP ports could be bound to.

Finally, you don't mention what platform you're running on; obviously some flavour of Linux and Apache Tomcat/5.5.20 but what version of Java, etc.?

Thanks,
Mike

P.S. Alfresco engineers try to contribute to the forums whenever possible - often outside normal working hours. Please remember however that we have a duty to prioritise paying Enterprise customers and sometimes that leaves little time to dig into complicated Community support issues such as yours. Coupled with this being holiday season in the UK, hopefully you can appreciate we can't cover every forum post individually and have to sometimes rely on the community helping eachother.

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:36:47 GMT

Hey Mike,

Thank you very much for getting back to me.

P.S. Alfresco engineers try to contribute to the forums whenever possible - often outside normal working hours. Please remember however that we have …

I understand 100%.
Thanks for putting it across in such a pleasant manner.

In order to optimize the time I get from you I am going to give you as much information as possible. In return I need you to just think of a few ways to get this server up again. I just want to serve data at the very least via http:// and, if possible via ftp://.

As I said, just changed a few lines in /opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-client-config.xml
My goal was to show a listing of 100 items in details view where it only shows 10.

I was quite happy to have a working alfresco installation, this was a bit of a mission to get running, so when the server was up, I didn't change anything in my config files. I also haven't upgraded java. The install was working great until I stopped and started Alfresco.

Here is my system details:

Operating system: Ubuntu Dapper 6.06
Kernel: Linux www 2.6.15-23-386 #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
CPU:model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5110 @ 1.60GHz
Memory:MemTotal: 2071020 kB

#/etc/hosts


127.0.0.1 localhost www lka1 alfresco stadiumarchitects stadiumarchitects.com www.stadiumarchitects.com projects.louiskarol.com server.stadiumarchitects.com
127.0.1.1 lka1
196.36.166.182  www lka1 alfresco stadiumarchitects stadiumarchitects.com www.stadiumarchitects.com projects.louiskarol.com server.stadiumarchitects.com

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

#hostname
www

I seem to be getting this in my logs all the time.
Is there an easy way to see why the listener fail like a debug log? Would love to know what is the real issue here :lol:

root@www:~# tail -f /opt/alfresco/tomcat/logs/catalina.2007-08-23.log
2007/08/23 01:29:48 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1410 ms
2007/08/23 01:29:48 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
2007/08/23 01:29:48 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.20
2007/08/23 01:29:48 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
2007/08/23 01:29:51 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
2007/08/23 01:30:35 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
2007/08/23 01:30:35 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
2007/08/23 01:30:36 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
2007/08/23 01:30:36 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
2007/08/23 01:30:43 org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass
INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load cryptix.jce.provider.md.MD4. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.
java.lang.IllegalStateException
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1241)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1201)
        at java.security.Provider$Service.getImplClass(Provider.java:1172)
        at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Provider.java:1129)
        at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:220)
        at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:147)
        at java.security.Security.getImpl(Security.java:658)
        at java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance(MessageDigest.java:122)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.MD4PasswordEncoderImpl.<clinit>(MD4PasswordEncoderImpl.java:61)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:242)
        at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:108)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.createBeanDefinition(BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.java:65)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitionElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:426)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitionElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:392)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:307)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:191)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:295)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:223)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:126)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:142)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:325)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:298)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:191)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:295)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:223)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:126)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:142)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:126)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:89)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:269)
        at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:134)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3763)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4211)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:809)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:698)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:472)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551)
        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)
2007/08/23 01:31:01 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
2007/08/23 01:31:01 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
2007/08/23 01:31:02 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
2007/08/23 01:31:02 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
2007/08/23 01:31:02 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/18 config=null
2007/08/23 01:31:03 org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
2007/08/23 01:31:03 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 74547 ms

I have looked at this thread:
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=966

I have followed Gary's advice here:

Could you try moving the cryptix-jce-provider.jar to the Tomcat shared/lib folder.

Yet, the alfresco won't start.

Any idea on just how to get the server running, even just http would be great. I have db backups and I have plenty disc space so I could archive my data? The thing is I am not sure I want to do a complete re-install, data and database. That looks quite intense. :lol:

Mike I am willing to get paid support though, make no mistake. I can't get a whole year though. I can get like 10 hours of support, but the last time I enquired about this I got the impression this can't be done.

Maybe you have a number of a support channel or partner in Cape Town, South Africa, or even Johannesburg. I will try them as well.
My goal is to have the server running so everyone can have a good time at work. I am therefore open to any suggestions you make.

Thanks again for your time Mike, I really do appreciate it.

Wins

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

mikeh — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:36:38 GMT

Hi,

Is there an easy way to see why the listener fail like a debug log? Would love to know what is the real issue here

You can up the debugging level by editing log4j.properties (webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes)

You should also have an alfresco.log file which may or may not contain further information.

At the moment I'm at a loss what to suggest, however I'll ask around.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:02:46 GMT

Wow what a day!

OK, so I could do a fresh install. I was never so happy to see a default alfresco install!

Then I started testing weather the fault was db or data related.
After I had a default install working, worked from there

#test stadium database (stadium db, new alf_data)
-drop default alfresco db and restore stadium db
-leave alf_data in tact
-start alfresco.sh

SEVERE: Error listenerStart

#test stadium data (stadium data, new db)
-drop old db and restore new one
-copy stadium alf_data
-start alfresco.sh

got it working.

For some reason when the db is involved I get the listener start error
:lol:
Who would have thought!

Checked my DB with phpmyadmin. Came out clean.
Alfresco engineers, do you have any advice for me? Do you have a tool I can check my db with and if possible fix any errors?

Thanks in advance,

Wins

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

winston — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:28:15 GMT

Spoke to Gerit from I-kno solutions.

He has explained to me in detail how the community version vs the enterprise version works.
He has been transparent in his explanation, and clear about how the enterprise application can benefit us.

I believe he is a great asset to alfresco and an amazing resource to have in South Africa.

Will stick with ntier for now as they might be able to get me out of this bind.

Question: If I have a broken db and it doesn't match up with my alf_data, how can I get my raw data back?

Wins

Re: Alfresco engineers, please will you look at this.

steve — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:06:06 GMT

Hi Winston,

You have been checking that the ports that Alfresco use are not used, but have you checked to ensure that the Tomcat instance that Alfresco runs in has properly shut down?

The error "INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already" could indicate that this is the case.

Try doing something along the lines of 'ps -ef | grep tomcat | grep alfresco', and if you get a result kill the process before you attempt to start Alfresco again.

Hope this helps,

Steve
(p.s., I am one of the ones who has been on holiday )