Alfresco 2.0 + Gentoo + Tomcat 5.5

[warren_h]

Hi,

I'm trying to install the alfresco.war into the Tomcat 5.5 structure provided by Gentoo Linux.

After deployment I find this error in the catalina log file :

Jul 14, 2007 10:21:10 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
Jul 14, 2007 10:21:33 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
Jul 14, 2007 10:21:33 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
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My next step after seeing this error was to go looking for the alfreso.log, but it is not getting created.

I think my Tomcat installation is missing some dependency required by Alfresco, particularly in respect to logging to alfreso.log.

Can someone please give an idea of what must be in place for Alfresco to successfully log to alfreso.log?

Note : The directory permissions are correct on the assumption that Alfresco (Tomcat) will log to the same location as the catalina log file, since Tomcat is already successfully writing to that location.

Any hints or tips much appreciated.

Thanks,


Warren.

[warren_h]

I've played around with the logging options available and have been able to generate a more verbose "SEVERE" error from Tomcat.  From the thousands of lines (now) generated in the catalina log I've filtered out approximate 200 lines of this type of error :

SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
        at org.alfresco.web.ui.wcm.component.UIFormProcessor.<clinit>(UIFormProcessor.java:45)
        at org.alfresco.web.ui.repo.component.UISimpleSearch.<clinit>(UISimpleSearch.java:305)
        at org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.AbstractContentTransformer.<clinit>(AbstractContentTransformer.java:52)
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.AbstractContentTransformer
        at org.alfresco.repo.content.cleanup.ContentStoreCleaner.<clinit>(ContentStoreCleaner.java:61)
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.PatchServiceImpl.<clinit>(PatchServiceImpl.java:61)
        at org.alfresco.filesys.server.config.FileServerConfig.<clinit>(FileServerConfig.java:47)
        at org.alfresco.repo.content.metadata.AbstractMappingMetadataExtracter.<clinit>(AbstractMappingMetadataExtracter.ja
va:92)
        at org.alfresco.repo.node.integrity.IntegrityChecker.<clinit>(IntegrityChecker.java:95)
        at org.alfresco.repo.node.integrity.IncompleteNodeTagger.<clinit>(IncompleteNodeTagger.java:74)
        at org.alfresco.repo.audit.AuditableAspect.<clinit>(AuditableAspect.java:59)
        at org.alfresco.repo.workflow.BPMEngineRegistry.<clinit>(BPMEngineRegistry.java:53)
        at org.alfresco.repo.action.ActionServiceImpl.<clinit>(ActionServiceImpl.java:88)
        at org.alfresco.repo.domain.hibernate.DbAuthorityImpl.<clinit>(DbAuthorityImpl.java:48)
        at org.alfresco.repo.node.index.MissingContentReindexComponent.<clinit>(MissingContentReindexComponent.java:48)
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.AbstractPatch.<clinit>(AbstractPatch.java:63)
        at org.alfresco.web.ui.repo.component.UINavigator.<clinit>(UINavigator.java:74)
        at org.alfresco.repo.importer.view.ViewParser.<clinit>(ViewParser.java:61)
        at org.alfresco.repo.model.ml.EditionServiceImpl.<clinit>(EditionServiceImpl.java:62)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.person.PersonServiceImpl.<clinit>(PersonServiceImpl.java:65)
        at org.alfresco.web.ui.repo.component.UIDialogButtons.<clinit>(UIDialogButtons.java:63)
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.registry.RegistryServiceImpl.<clinit>(RegistryServiceImpl.java:64)
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.AbstractPatch
        at org.alfresco.repo.audit.PublicServiceIdentifierImpl.<clinit>(PublicServiceIdentifierImpl.java:48)
        at org.alfresco.repo.template.FreeMarkerProcessor.<clinit>(FreeMarkerProcessor.java:72)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.acegi.ACLEntryVoter.<clinit>(ACLEntryVoter.java:60)
        at org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.PermissionServiceImpl.<clinit>(PermissionServiceImpl.java:76)
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.AbstractPatch
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.AbstractPatch
        at org.alfresco.repo.workflow.jbpm.JBPMTransactionTemplate.<clinit>(JBPMTransactionTemplate.java:47)
        at org.alfresco.repo.action.executer.CopyToWebProjectActionExecuter.<clinit>(CopyToWebProjectActionExecuter.java:59
)
        at org.alfresco.web.ui.common.component.data.UISortLink.<clinit>(UISortLink.java:339)
        at org.alfresco.repo.webservice.CMLUtil.<clinit>(CMLUtil.java:73)
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.AbstractPatch
        at org.alfresco.repo.webservice.authentication.AuthenticationWebService.<clinit>(AuthenticationWebService.java:44)
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Some quick Googling suggests that "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError" error messages are related to an incorrect "CLASSPATH", so that's where I'll be searching next, any hints or tips or suggestions welcome!

Thanks,


Warren.