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org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException: 11280000 Failed to create directory for file

cratlepeter — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:43:17 GMT

I'm just trying to get "community distribution content service 6.2-ga" installed on Debian 10.7 with "Apache Tomcat/9.0.31 (Debian)" On the first run, I'm getting an error in creating the content directory. I've dropped and recreated the database and user. Any ideas why I'm getting the permission error and how I debug it in Tomcat ?

I'm getting "org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException: 11280000 Failed to create directory for file storage: /var/documents/contentstore/2020/12/28/11/28" in alfresco.log

tomcat seems to have permission to the directory:

root@gpserver1:/var/log/tomcat9# ls -lR /var/documents
/var/documents:
total 12
drwx------ 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 Dec 28 08:31 contentstore
drwx------ 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 Dec 27 13:49 contentstore.deleted
drwx------ 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 Dec 28 08:21 keystore

/var/documents/contentstore:
total 0

/var/documents/contentstore.deleted:
total 0

/var/documents/keystore:
total 0

security manager is off:

root@xx:/var/log/tomcat9# grep -v ^# /etc/default/tomcat9

JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true"

SECURITY_MANAGER=false

LOGFILE_COMPRESS=1

and alfresco-global.properties is set up:

system.serverMode=PRODUCTION

#
# Sample custom content and index data location
#
dir.root=/var/documents
dir.contentstore=/var/documents/contentstore
dir.contentstore.deleted=/var/documents/contentstore.deleted
# dir.keystore=${dir.root]/keystore/keystore

Re: org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException: 11280000 Failed to create directory for

kaynezhang — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:27:33 GMT

Is tomcat the user that you are using to run alfresco ? since only the owner(tomcat) has permission to create folder and file in contentstore folder.

Re: org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException: 11280000 Failed to create directory for

cratlepeter — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 15:09:04 GMT

I believe that it's running as 'tomcat'. The tomcat process runs as the tomcat user.

However, just to check I changed all permissions to be rwx and I still saw the same error.

Re: org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException: 11280000 Failed to create directory for

cratlepeter — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:44:56 GMT

Turns out that Debian tomcat is sandboxed by systemd. Read /usr/share/doc/tomcat9/README.Debian for more information.

Re: org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException: 11280000 Failed to create directory for

kaynezhang — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 01:50:09 GMT

good luck

Re: org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException: 11280000 Failed to create directory for

blibanos — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:11:15 GMT

The folder that alfresco was trying to create was owned by the root user. changing it to alfresco(user starting the tomcat server) resolved the issue. Thank you for your help