Community 3.3 install problems

[swithun]

Like quite a few people, I'm having trouble making the Records Management module appear in Alfresco Explorer and Share. I'm using Alfresco 3.3, built from SVN on Arch Linux. I downloaded alfresco-dod5015.amp and alfresco-dod5015-share.amp from http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Community_Edition_file_list_3.3, and installed them without error, using alfresco-mmt.jar:

[archive@itspc-cs2 alfresco]$ java -jar bin/alfresco-mmt.jar install /tmp/alfresco-dod5015.amp tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war
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[archive@itspc-cs2 alfresco]$ java -jar bin/alfresco-mmt.jar install /tmp/alfresco-dod5015-share.amp tomcat/webapps/share.war
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[archive@itspc-cs2 alfresco]$ java -jar bin/alfresco-mmt.jar list tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war
Module 'org_alfresco_module_dod5015' installed in 'tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war'
   -    Title:        DOD 5015 Records Management
   -    Version:      1.0
   -    Install Date: Tue May 11 15:46:08 BST 2010
   -    Desription:   Alfresco DOD 5015 Record Management Extension
[archive@itspc-cs2 alfresco]$ java -jar bin/alfresco-mmt.jar list tomcat/webapps/share.war
Module 'org_alfresco_module_dod5015_share' installed in 'tomcat/webapps/share.war'
   -    Title:        DOD 5015 Records Management Client
   -    Version:      1.0
   -    Install Date: Tue May 11 15:52:45 BST 2010
   -    Desription:   Alfresco DOD 5015 Record Management Share Extension‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

But, as people have observed, the RM module is nowhere to be seen.

Is there anything I should be looking for in the logs, or something I can change in log4j.properties to get some more information on this? With default logging settings, there doesn't seem to be anything in catalina.out relating to RM.

Is a fresh vanilla install the only solution? Hopefully not. Has anyone had this problem and solved it without reinstalling everything?

[jfilius]

Well, thanks for all the support 😉
Solved my problem in the end (helped by my colleque) by deleting the sharexxxx.bak file and the redeploying the share dod amp file.

Now the RM DASHLET appeared in the admin console.

For some reason the share.war file would not update when a backup file existed. No error in any log was mentioned by the way…undocumented feature I quess

Hopefully this will help someone else with this or similar issues.

[swithun]

I haven't come across that exact problem, but the alfresco-mmt.jar command will not reinstall amps, unless you force it to. When doing a lot of developing and testing of my amps, I found that adding -force -nobackup to the lines in apply_amps.sh saved on disk space and got my amps reinstalled.

E.g.

java -jar $ALF_HOME/bin/alfresco-mmt.jar install $ALF_HOME/amps $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/alfresco.war -directory -force -nobackup‍