Fails to start: hangs on Startup of 'thirdparty' subsystem

[unknown-user]

Hi all, I am having an issue with not being able to start Alf 3.2 Community. Like the Subject says, Alfresco simply hangs after I receive the following message in the alfresco.log "INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Startup of 'thirdparty' subsystem, ID: [default] complete".

I am not doing any development on this installation, and so I find that this error just "popping up" out of nowhere to be very odd. I have referred to this link, but I cannot find the openoffice-startup-context.xml file that it speaks of.
https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-2790

This is what I CAN find: locate openoffice-
/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/remote-openoffice-context.xml.sample
/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/mimetype/openoffice-document-formats.xml
/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/thirdparty/default/openoffice-transform-context.xml
/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/thirdparty/default/openoffice-transform.properties
/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/openoffice-juh-2.0.3.jar
/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/openoffice-jurt-2.0.3.jar
/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/openoffice-ridl-2.0.3.jar
/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/openoffice-sandbox-2.0.3.jar
/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/openoffice-unoil-2.0.3.jar
/usr/share/desktop-menu-patches/openoffice-printeradmin.desktop
/usr/share/desktop-menu-patches/openoffice-setup.desktop

10:51:50,295 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer] Loadi
ng properties file from class path resource [alfresco/alfresco-shared.properties
]
10:52:16,899 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] Schema mana
ged by database dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect.
10:52:20,638 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] No changes
were made to the schema.
10:52:26,138 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.node.index.FullIndexRecoveryComponent] Ind
ex recovery started: 4,692 transactions.
10:52:26,366 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.node.index.FullIndexRecoveryComponent]
10 % complete.
10:52:26,393 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.node.index.FullIndexRecoveryComponent]
20 % complete.
10:52:27,613 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationCont
extFactory] Starting 'thirdparty' subsystem, ID: [default]
10:52:27,706 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer] Loadi
ng properties file from class path resource [alfresco/alfresco-shared.properties
]10:52:29,474 WARN  [org.alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester] An initial Ope
nOffice connection could not be established.
10:52:29,475 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationCont
extFactory] Startup of 'thirdparty' subsystem, ID: [default] complete‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Does anyone know of a fix for this? Thank you.

[unknown-user]

Hi guys, when I run the TOP command, java appears to be using 100% of the CPU. This occurs just after I start Alf, and while the  Startup of 'thirdparty' subsystem is hanging.  Even after I stop Alf, java sticks around to use 98-100% of the CPU.

[unknown-user]

Ok so I solved this after 6 hours of beating my head against the desk 😜

After shutting down Alfresco I deleted the folders "lucene-indexes" & "backup-lucene-indexes" from /Alfresco/alf_data (made a tarball of the folders before deleting).

I then set "index.recovery.mode=FULL" in repository.properties & started up Alfresco.

It took 20 minutes to reindex, but Alf was back up and running, with the indexes rebuilt.

[unknown-user]

In short, you just have to wait it out when Alf gets to that line, it is loading the indexes, which takes time.