Exception on Startup

[nyronian]

I am trying to copy an existing system (database and alf_data) to another installation with the exact same configuration.  After doing so I get the below exception on startup.  (alfresco.log)

Does anyone know what this would be??  Does this mean the data from the DB copy was corrupted?  Is there a specail way I am to backup/restore the mysql database?

16:59:59,054 WARN  [org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiRegistryFactoryBean] Could not detect RMI registry - creating new one
17:00:08,145 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] Schema managed by database dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect.
17:00:08,160 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] Bypassing schema update checks.
17:00:13,846 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.hibernate.type.SerializationException: could not deserialize
   at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper.deserialize(SerializationHelper.java:217)
   at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper.deserialize(SerializationHelper.java:240)
   at org.hibernate.type.SerializableType.fromBytes(SerializableType.java:82)
   at org.hibernate.type.SerializableType.get(SerializableType.java:39)
   at org.hibernate.type.NullableType.nullSafeGet(NullableType.java:113)
   at org.hibernate.type.NullableType.nullSafeGet(NullableType.java:102)
   at org.hibernate.type.AbstractType.hydrate(AbstractType.java:81)
   at org.hibernate.type.ComponentType.hydrate(ComponentType.java:560)
   at org.hibernate.type.ComponentType.nullSafeGet(ComponentType.java:275)
   at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.readElement(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:703)
   at org.hibernate.collection.PersistentMap.readFrom(PersistentMap.java:257)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.readCollectionElement(Loader.java:994)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.readCollectionElements(Loader.java:634)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.getRowFromResultSet(Loader.java:579)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQuery(Loader.java:689)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQueryAndInitializeNonLazyCollections(Loader.java:224)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.loadCollection(Loader.java:1985)
   at org.hibernate.loader.collection.CollectionLoader.initialize(CollectionLoader.java:36)
   at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.initialize(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:565)
   at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultInitializeCollectionEventListener.onInitializeCollection(DefaultInitializeCollectionEventListener.java:60)
   at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.initializeCollection(SessionImpl.java:1716)
   at org.hibernate.collection.AbstractPersistentCollection.initialize(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:344)
   at org.hibernate.collection.AbstractPersistentCollection.read(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:86)
   at org.hibernate.collection.AbstractPersistentCollection.readSize(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:109)
   at org.hibernate.collection.PersistentMap.size(PersistentMap.java:114)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.db.DbNodeServiceImpl.getPropertiesImpl(DbNodeServiceImpl.java:908)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.db.DbNodeServiceImpl.setProperty(DbNodeServiceImpl.java:1053)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
   at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:281)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:187)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:154)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.TransactionResourceInterceptor.invoke(TransactionResourceInterceptor.java:138)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:176)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:210)
   at $Proxy2.setProperty(Unknown Source)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
   at org.alfresco.repo.service.StoreRedirectorProxyFactory$RedirectorInvocationHandler.invoke(StoreRedirectorProxyFactory.java:221)
   at $Proxy3.setProperty(Unknown Source)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.MLPropertyInterceptor.invoke(MLPropertyInterceptor.java:206)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:176)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:210)
   at $Proxy2.setProperty(Unknown Source)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl.updateCurrentRepositoryDescriptor(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:260)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl.access$300(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:66)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl$1.execute(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:176)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl$1.execute(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:167)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:225)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:155)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl.onBootstrap(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:182)
   at org.alfresco.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:62)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster$1.run(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:77)
   at org.springframework.core.task.SyncTaskExecutor.execute(SyncTaskExecutor.java:49)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:75)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:241)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:349)
   at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:156)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3763)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4211)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:809)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:698)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:472)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:294)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432)
Caused by: java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header
   at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(ObjectInputStream.java:764)
   at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(ObjectInputStream.java:277)
   at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper$CustomObjectInputStream.<init>(SerializationHelper.java:252)
   at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper.deserialize(SerializationHelper.java:209)
   … 88 more
17:00:13,862 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/site]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.hibernate.type.SerializationException: could not deserialize
   at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper.deserialize(SerializationHelper.java:217)
   at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper.deserialize(SerializationHelper.java:240)
   at org.hibernate.type.SerializableType.fromBytes(SerializableType.java:82)
   at org.hibernate.type.SerializableType.get(SerializableType.java:39)
   at org.hibernate.type.NullableType.nullSafeGet(NullableType.java:113)
   at org.hibernate.type.NullableType.nullSafeGet(NullableType.java:102)
   at org.hibernate.type.AbstractType.hydrate(AbstractType.java:81)
   at org.hibernate.type.ComponentType.hydrate(ComponentType.java:560)
   at org.hibernate.type.ComponentType.nullSafeGet(ComponentType.java:275)
   at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.readElement(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:703)
   at org.hibernate.collection.PersistentMap.readFrom(PersistentMap.java:257)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.readCollectionElement(Loader.java:994)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.readCollectionElements(Loader.java:634)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.getRowFromResultSet(Loader.java:579)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQuery(Loader.java:689)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQueryAndInitializeNonLazyCollections(Loader.java:224)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.loadCollection(Loader.java:1985)
   at org.hibernate.loader.collection.CollectionLoader.initialize(CollectionLoader.java:36)
   at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.initialize(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:565)
   at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultInitializeCollectionEventListener.onInitializeCollection(DefaultInitializeCollectionEventListener.java:60)
   at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.initializeCollection(SessionImpl.java:1716)
   at org.hibernate.collection.AbstractPersistentCollection.initialize(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:344)
   at org.hibernate.collection.AbstractPersistentCollection.read(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:86)
   at org.hibernate.collection.AbstractPersistentCollection.readSize(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:109)
   at org.hibernate.collection.PersistentMap.size(PersistentMap.java:114)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.db.DbNodeServiceImpl.getPropertiesImpl(DbNodeServiceImpl.java:908)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.db.DbNodeServiceImpl.setProperty(DbNodeServiceImpl.java:1053)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
   at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:281)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:187)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:154)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.TransactionResourceInterceptor.invoke(TransactionResourceInterceptor.java:138)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:176)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:210)
   at $Proxy2.setProperty(Unknown Source)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
   at org.alfresco.repo.service.StoreRedirectorProxyFactory$RedirectorInvocationHandler.invoke(StoreRedirectorProxyFactory.java:221)
   at $Proxy3.setProperty(Unknown Source)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.MLPropertyInterceptor.invoke(MLPropertyInterceptor.java:206)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:176)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:210)
   at $Proxy2.setProperty(Unknown Source)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl.updateCurrentRepositoryDescriptor(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:260)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl.access$300(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:66)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl$1.execute(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:176)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl$1.execute(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:167)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:225)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:155)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl.onBootstrap(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:182)
   at org.alfresco.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:62)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster$1.run(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:77)
   at org.springframework.core.task.SyncTaskExecutor.execute(SyncTaskExecutor.java:49)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:75)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:241)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:349)
   at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:156)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3763)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4211)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:809)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:698)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:472)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:294)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432)
Caused by: java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header
   at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(ObjectInputStream.java:764)
   at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(ObjectInputStream.java:277)
   at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper$CustomObjectInputStream.<init>(SerializationHelper.java:252)
   at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper.deserialize(SerializationHelper.java:209)
   … 88 more
17:00:13,877 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/site]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.alfresco.web.app.ContextListener
org.hibernate.type.SerializationException: could not deserialize
   at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper.deserialize(SerializationHelper.java:217)
   at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper.deserialize(SerializationHelper.java:240)
   at org.hibernate.type.SerializableType.fromBytes(SerializableType.java:82)
   at org.hibernate.type.SerializableType.get(SerializableType.java:39)
   at org.hibernate.type.NullableType.nullSafeGet(NullableType.java:113)
   at org.hibernate.type.NullableType.nullSafeGet(NullableType.java:102)
   at org.hibernate.type.AbstractType.hydrate(AbstractType.java:81)
   at org.hibernate.type.ComponentType.hydrate(ComponentType.java:560)
   at org.hibernate.type.ComponentType.nullSafeGet(ComponentType.java:275)
   at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.readElement(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:703)
   at org.hibernate.collection.PersistentMap.readFrom(PersistentMap.java:257)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.readCollectionElement(Loader.java:994)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.readCollectionElements(Loader.java:634)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.getRowFromResultSet(Loader.java:579)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQuery(Loader.java:689)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQueryAndInitializeNonLazyCollections(Loader.java:224)
   at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.loadCollection(Loader.java:1985)
   at org.hibernate.loader.collection.CollectionLoader.initialize(CollectionLoader.java:36)
   at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.initialize(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:565)
   at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultInitializeCollectionEventListener.onInitializeCollection(DefaultInitializeCollectionEventListener.java:60)
   at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.initializeCollection(SessionImpl.java:1716)
   at org.hibernate.collection.AbstractPersistentCollection.initialize(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:344)
   at org.hibernate.collection.AbstractPersistentCollection.read(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:86)
   at org.hibernate.collection.AbstractPersistentCollection.readSize(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:109)
   at org.hibernate.collection.PersistentMap.size(PersistentMap.java:114)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.db.DbNodeServiceImpl.getPropertiesImpl(DbNodeServiceImpl.java:908)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.db.DbNodeServiceImpl.setProperty(DbNodeServiceImpl.java:1053)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
   at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:281)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:187)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:154)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.TransactionResourceInterceptor.invoke(TransactionResourceInterceptor.java:138)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:176)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:210)
   at $Proxy2.setProperty(Unknown Source)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
   at org.alfresco.repo.service.StoreRedirectorProxyFactory$RedirectorInvocationHandler.invoke(StoreRedirectorProxyFactory.java:221)
   at $Proxy3.setProperty(Unknown Source)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.MLPropertyInterceptor.invoke(MLPropertyInterceptor.java:206)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:176)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:210)
   at $Proxy2.setProperty(Unknown Source)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl.updateCurrentRepositoryDescriptor(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:260)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl.access$300(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:66)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl$1.execute(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:176)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl$1.execute(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:167)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:225)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:155)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl.onBootstrap(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:182)
   at org.alfresco.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:62)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster$1.run(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:77)
   at org.springframework.core.task.SyncTaskExecutor.execute(SyncTaskExecutor.java:49)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:75)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:241)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:349)
   at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:156)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3763)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4211)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:809)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:698)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:472)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:294)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432)
Caused by: java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header
   at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(ObjectInputStream.java:764)
   at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(ObjectInputStream.java:277)
   at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper$CustomObjectInputStream.<init>(SerializationHelper.java:252)
   at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper.deserialize(SerializationHelper.java:209)
   … 88 more
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[sdavis]

Two questions:

1) On the new install, did it startup fine before performing the restore?

2) On the old install, did you follow the steps at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore?

[nyronian]

arrgh…I did not see the response….need to set my notification right….

Thank you so much for the response….

1.  I have an instance of Alfresco that starts fine.  I restore the dir.root and the alfresco database and get the exception.  I can't seem to get around it.

2.  I followed the "Cold Backup" procedures.

I am assuming from the exception that it cannot "deserialize" some Alfresco object from the MySQL database that is getting corrupted on import of the database.  Is there "encoding" issue I am missing.  It does not specify any special setting or options for mysqldump in the Backup/Restore document. 

One note is that I am moving the data from a linux machine to a windows vista machine….could this affect anything?

Any thoughts? 

On a side note….I am getting in hotter and hotter water.  We have been using Alfresco for about 6 months now and I have yet to get a Backup/Restore to work.  I've no idea why this is happening.  Now I have a new machine I am trying to bring up and cannot.  I have brushed it off thinking there must be thousands doing this every day, I am just missing something simple.

[nyronian]

Looking at the exception further it's as if a spring configuration file is corrupt.  (corruption deserializing a file) and it appears to be around the loading of the spring context.

What is odd, is I can delete the repository, empty the alfresco DB and have it reload from scratch.  Everything is fine.

I then replace the repository with the backup of dir.root and alfresco and BAM.  So I don't see how it could be a spring file that is getting corrupted.  Unless there is something in the DB or stored in dir.root I am not aware of.

[nyronian]

I turned on detailed debugging and received the following debug lines near the error:

14:37:06,583 DEBUG [sf.ehcache.Cache] org.alfresco.repo.domain.hibernate.NodeImpl cache - Miss
14:37:06,584 DEBUG [ehcache.store.MemoryStore] org.alfresco.repo.domain.hibernate.NodeStatusImplCache: org.alfresco.repo
.domain.hibernate.NodeStatusImplMemoryStore miss for org.alfresco.repo.domain.hibernate.NodeStatusImpl#NodeKey[ id=3bd4f
938-61ff-11dc-99f6-7db49849fce3, protocol=system, identifier=system]
14:37:06,587 DEBUG [sf.ehcache.Cache] org.alfresco.repo.domain.hibernate.NodeStatusImpl cache - Miss
14:37:06,588 DEBUG [ehcache.store.MemoryStore] org.alfresco.repo.domain.hibernate.NodeImpl.aspectsCache: org.alfresco.re
po.domain.hibernate.NodeImpl.aspectsMemoryStore miss for org.alfresco.repo.domain.hibernate.NodeImpl.aspects#8
14:37:06,590 DEBUG [sf.ehcache.Cache] org.alfresco.repo.domain.hibernate.NodeImpl.aspects cache - Miss
14:37:06,597 DEBUG [ehcache.store.MemoryStore] org.alfresco.repo.domain.hibernate.NodeImpl.propertiesCache: org.alfresco
.repo.domain.hibernate.NodeImpl.propertiesMemoryStore miss for org.alfresco.repo.domain.hibernate.NodeImpl.properties#8
14:37:06,599 DEBUG [sf.ehcache.Cache] org.alfresco.repo.domain.hibernate.NodeImpl.properties cache - Miss
14:37:06,609 ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.hibernate.type.SerializationException: could not deserialize
        at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper.deserialize(SerializationHelper.java:217)
        at org.hibernate.util.SerializationHelper.deserialize(SerializationHelper.java:240)
        at org.hibernate.type.SerializableType.fromBytes(SerializableType.java:82)
        at org.hibernate.type.SerializableType.get(SerializableType.java:39)
        at org.hibernate.type.NullableType.nullSafeGet(NullableType.java:113)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I found node '3bd4f938-61ff-11dc-99f6-7db49849fce3' in alf_node and then alf_node_properties, if that is indeed the faulty node.  The node does have a serializable BLOB as a property of qname 'versionEdition' in the alfresco system namespace.  I am assuming that is the faulty value.

I will do some work around this.  Maybe the way I am importing it, it is a problem.

[nyronian]

Ok, I am going to have a hundred posts on here but, I figure the more info that is available the better.

I have tracked down the import of the actual node properties sql.  It is below:

INSERT INTO `alf_node_properties` VALUES (8,'SERIALIZABLE',' ','SERIALIZABLE','\0',0,0,0,NULL,NULL,'��\0 sr\0 java.util.ArrayListx�� ��a� \0 I\0 sizexp\0\0\0 w \0\0\0 t\0 Community Networkx','{http://www.alfresco.org/model/system/1.0}versionEdition'),
(8,'STRING','\0','STRING','\0',0,0,0,'',NULL,NULL,'{http://www.alfresco.org/model/system/1.0}versionLabel'),
(8,'STRING','\0','STRING','\0',0,0,0,'2',NULL,NULL,'{http://www.alfresco.org/model/system/1.0}versionMajor'),
(8,'STRING','\0','STRING','\0',0,0,0,'1',NULL,NULL,'{http://www.alfresco.org/model/system/1.0}versionMinor'),
(8,'CONTENT','\0','STRING','\0',0,0,0,'contentUrl=store://2007/9/13/7/42/3bdff5bd-61ff-11dc-99f6-7db49849fce3.bin|mimetype=text/plain|size=273|encoding=UTF8|locale=en_US_',NULL,NULL,'{http://www.alfresco.org/model/system/1.0}versionProperties'),(8,'STRING','\0','STRING','\0',0,0,0,'0',NULL,NULL,'{http://www.alfresco.org/model/system/1.0}versionRevision'),
(8,'LONG','\0','LONG','\0',64,0,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,'{http://www.alfresco.org/model/system/1.0}versionSchema'),
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Note the serializable column.  Any ideas on why it would be corrupt.  This is the direction I am working.

[nyronian]

Do I need to use the following option to turn blobs into hex chars:

mysqldump –hex-blob

maybe that is what is missing?

[nyronian]

Ok…I think I answered my own question.  It does require the hex option.

I am doing some more testing but I am certain that is it.