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Activiti 6 beta1 failed to start

ccp999
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Hi,

I followed instruction of Getting start guide with the version of Activiti 6 beta 1 but it failed to run with the following error messages.

log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.
java.io.FileNotFoundException:  (No such file or directory)
   at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method)
   at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(FileOutputStream.java:270)
   at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:213)
   at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:133)
   at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:294)
   at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.activateOptions(FileAppender.java:165)
   at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:307)
   at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:172)
   at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:104)
   at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:842)
   at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:768)
   at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:648)
   at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:514)
   at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:580)
   at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:526)
   at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:127)
   at org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory.getLogger(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:66)
   at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:270)
   at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:281)
   at com.activiti.servlet.WebConfigurer.<init>(WebConfigurer.java:44)
   at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
   at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:422)
   at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:116)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4919)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5517)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:652)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:1095)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1930)
   at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
   at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Sep 28, 2015 5:22:38 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: One or more listeners failed to start. Full details will be found in the appropriate container log file
Sep 28, 2015 5:22:38 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Context [/activiti-app] startup failed due to previous errors

I'm running it in newly downloaded Tomcat 7.x and 8.x and Java 8 on MacOSX.

Regards,

Brendan

2 REPLIES 2

les-bb
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
I had the same problem -
I had to change the ${filename} in activity-app/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties to a valid filename.  I'm not sure where this property is supposed to be being set really though Smiley Sad

jbarrez
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