Alfresco won't start, due to TransferException

[ericlemanissier]

Hello all,

We currently have an alfresco installation running on tomcat 6. It was working properly until we had to restart tomcat. We get the following error in the log file:

<blockquote>
10:57:45,044 INFO  [org.alfresco.service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco started (Community). Current version: 4.0.0 (7) schema 5,025. Originally installed version: 4.0.0 (7) schema 5,025.
10:57:45,047 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Starting 'ActivitiesFeed' subsystem, ID: [ActivitiesFeed, default]
10:57:45,349 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Startup of 'ActivitiesFeed' subsystem, ID: [ActivitiesFeed, default] complete
10:57:45,349 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Starting 'Replication' subsystem, ID: [Replication, default]
10:57:45,386 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Startup of 'Replication' subsystem, ID: [Replication, default] complete
10:57:58,850 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.alfresco.service.cmr.transfer.TransferException: 05260001 Unable to find transfer group with name, cm:default
   at org.alfresco.repo.transfer.TransferServiceImpl2.getDefaultGroup(TransferServiceImpl2.java:265)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transfer.TransferServiceImpl2.lookupTransferTarget(TransferServiceImpl2.java:1241)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transfer.TransferServiceImpl2.createTransferTarget(TransferServiceImpl2.java:218)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transfer.TransferServiceImpl2.createAndSaveTransferTarget(TransferServiceImpl2.java:206)
   at org.alfresco.module.org_alfresco_module_wcmquickstart.publish.PublishBootstrap$Lifecycle$1.doWork(PublishBootstrap.java:89)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationUtil.runAs(AuthenticationUtil.java:519)
   at org.alfresco.module.org_alfresco_module_wcmquickstart.publish.PublishBootstrap$Lifecycle.onBootstrap(PublishBootstrap.java:73)
   at org.springframework.extensions.surf.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:56)
   at org.alfresco.module.org_alfresco_module_wcmquickstart.publish.PublishBootstrap.onApplicationEvent(PublishBootstrap.java:62)
   at org.alfresco.module.org_alfresco_module_wcmquickstart.publish.PublishBootstrap.onApplicationEvent(PublishBootstrap.java:35)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEventInternal(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:209)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:180)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:303)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:911)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:428)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:276)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:197)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:63)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4210)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4709)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:583)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:675)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:601)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:502)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1317)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:324)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1065)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:822)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1057)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
</blockquote>

We don't use wcmquickstart nor TransferService, so is there any way to disable these to get rid of the error ? Or maybe some way to continue alfresco startup after this error ?

Thanks!

[nickburch]

If you're not using the WCM Quick Start module, you could always try uninstalling it?

From the Exception, I'd guess that someone had a play with WCMQS and tried setting something up, but entered some duff values…

[ericlemanissier]

Hi,

It has been few months since the last message, thank you nonetheless !
We solved the problem without uninstalling WCM quickstart. However we are now interested in removing WCMQS. I read somewhere that the "uninstall" command of mmt was not available before alfresco 4.2
How could we uninstall it in alfresco 4.0 ?

[vladorange]

Hi

Actually I recently got to the same problem, and I spent on this issue two days already - in vain.

From my experience, I can say that if a problem cannot be solved for that long, it is either the simplest ever, or the hardest that one should forget about it.

Could you please share how you solved this issue with transfer?

Thanks in advance

Vlad