failure during rollback ('dictionaryRepositoryBootstrap)

[tim-erwin]

Hi!

I'm running Alfresco 2.1 on a Debian machine. More precisely: I did install it a few weeks ago, it ran, does not anymore.

My setup: debian, MySQL 5.0, JDBC connector 5.1, tomcat 5.5

During startup I get this error thrice:

ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dictionaryRepositoryBootstrap' defined in class path resource [alfresco/core-services-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Failure during rollback: org.alfresco.repo.dictionary.DictionaryRepositoryBootstrap$1@1363271
Caused by: 
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Failure during rollback: org.alfresco.repo.dictionary.DictionaryRepositoryBootstrap$1@1363271
        at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:281)
        at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:155)
        at org.alfresco.repo.dictionary.DictionaryRepositoryBootstrap.bootstrap(DictionaryRepositoryBootstrap.java:134)
        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.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeCustomInitMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1160)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1122)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1085)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:429)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:250)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:141)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:247)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:161)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:273)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:346)
        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:3764)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4216)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:920)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:883)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:492)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552)
        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:295)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No user transaction is active
        at org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction.rollback(SpringAwareUserTransaction.java:479)
        at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:276)
        … 44 more
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I tried reinstalling everything. Recreated the database, set the permissions for alfresco on alfresco etc. Root.dir exists, write permissions granted. Configuration files are setup for MySQL.

I'm really confused. For me it looks like a database problem. But really not sure what kind of (btw: no tables in alfreso-db so far (after reinstall)).

All hints welcome.

Regards,
Tim-Erwin

[bix]

Thanks Shlomi, this is a nice input, we'll try that and see what it gives.

Meanwhile, we have found that Tomcat environment was only running with 512 MB memory, we doubled that and are still testing. If some more crashing occurs, we'll check into the tomcat assasination

[shlomi]

Great Bix,
Please let me know if you manage to get this export/import thing to work, I am also trying different means of attacking it at the moment, currently not very successfully.

I wish someone on the alfresco team will help us with this issue, as it is quite an important one..  :?

Have a great day,
Shlomi

[bix]

More input :

The memory doubling didn't help, Alfresco crashes as much as before.

We have noticed several weird things :
- Analyzing the realtime CPU usage graphs, we see that CPU is at 100% during a few seconds (and that's long, computer-wise) when accessing to ANY web document through Alfresco (even a very simple php page).
- We also note that accessing a page with Firefox produces two "small peaks" of 100% CPU usage, while accessing the same page with IE makes "larger peaks" of 100% CPU usage, which ALWAYS result in an alfresco crashing, with all the errors copied/pasted here above… The only config difference between the two browsers here is a proxy configuration (IE bypasses the proxy to access the alfresco server, while Firefox doesn't). If that config was the problem, problems should occur more with FF than IE !
- I killed all Tomcat processes like Shlomi advised and it doesn't help. The only way to fix this is to restart the server … Note that the BeanException error message can still be found in the logs at the moment the server is crashing, while no Tomcat process is running at all !

I am getting crazy !  :shock: