Install 3e / CentOS 5.3 / ActivityPost.xml

[tweisshaar]

Hi,

I have a problem to start Alfresco Labs 3e (http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist/Alfresco-Labs-3e%20dev-Linux-x86-Install) on a fresh install of CentOS 5.3.
At this time I have made no changes on any configuration files. The start script was automatically modified by the alfresco install-gui.

The alfresco.log shows this:

15:47:28,314 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sqlMapClient' defined in file [/opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-activities-feed-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.RuntimeException: Error occurred.  Cause: com.ibatis.common.xml.NodeletException: Error parsing XML.  Cause: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error parsing XPath '/sqlMapConfig/sqlMap'.  Cause: java.io.IOException: Could not find resource alfresco/activities/org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect/ActivityPost.xml
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error occurred.  Cause: com.ibatis.common.xml.NodeletException: Error parsing XML.  Cause: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error parsing XPath '/sqlMapConfig/sqlMap'.  Cause: java.io.IOException: Could not find resource alfresco/activities/org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect/ActivityPost.xml
        at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.builder.xml.SqlMapConfigParser.parse(SqlMapConfigParser.java:65)
        at com.ibatis.sqlmap.client.SqlMapClientBuilder.buildSqlMapClient(SqlMapClientBuilder.java:90)
        at org.springframework.orm.ibatis.SqlMapClientFactoryBean.buildSqlMapClient(SqlMapClientFactoryBean.java:326)
        at org.springframework.orm.ibatis.SqlMapClientFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(SqlMapClientFactoryBean.java:280)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1203)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1172)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:427)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:249)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:155)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:246)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:160)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:285)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:352)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:189)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
        at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:69)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4342)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:830)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:719)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578)
        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:597)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Caused by: com.ibatis.common.xml.NodeletException: Error parsing XML.  Cause: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error parsing XPath '/sqlMapConfig/sqlMap'.  Cause: java.io.IOException: Could not find resource alfresco/activities/org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect/ActivityPost.xml
        at com.ibatis.common.xml.NodeletParser.parse(NodeletParser.java:62)
        at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.builder.xml.SqlMapConfigParser.parse(SqlMapConfigParser.java:62)
        … 40 more
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error parsing XPath '/sqlMapConfig/sqlMap'.  Cause: java.io.IOException: Could not find resource alfresco/activities/org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect/ActivityPost.xml
        at com.ibatis.common.xml.NodeletParser.processNodelet(NodeletParser.java:123)
        at com.ibatis.common.xml.NodeletParser.process(NodeletParser.java:84)
        at com.ibatis.common.xml.NodeletParser.process(NodeletParser.java:102)
        at com.ibatis.common.xml.NodeletParser.parse(NodeletParser.java:72)
        at com.ibatis.common.xml.NodeletParser.parse(NodeletParser.java:60)
        … 41 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Could not find resource alfresco/activities/org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect/ActivityPost.xml
        at com.ibatis.common.resources.Resources.getResourceAsStream(Resources.java:110)
        at com.ibatis.common.resources.Resources.getResourceAsStream(Resources.java:95)
        at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.builder.xml.SqlMapConfigParser$10.process(SqlMapConfigParser.java:249)
        at com.ibatis.common.xml.NodeletParser.processNodelet(NodeletParser.java:121)
        … 45 more            
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[root@alfresco alfresco]# java -version
java version "1.6.0_13"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_13-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 11.3-b02, mixed mode)
[root@alfresco alfresco]#
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I was wondering about the error message "Could not find resource alfresco/activities/org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect/ActivityPost.xml"
And yes, the file "ActivityPost.xml" is missing. So I copied all the alfresco/activities/org.* stuff from a Labs 3.0 Stable installation into the new e3 installation - and it seems working.

And now I could start 3e without errors. (I also copied the mysql-connector to tomcat/shared/lib and activate MySQL in the configuration files)

17:30:49,381 INFO  [org.alfresco.web.site.FrameworkHelper] Successfully Initialized Web Framework
17:35:50,413 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/alfresco-shared.properties]
17:35:51,089 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.SystemPropertiesFactoryBean] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/domain/hibernate-cfg.properties]
17:35:51,089 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.SystemPropertiesFactoryBean] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/extension/custom-hibernate-dialect.properties]
17:35:58,959 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.xml.XMLConfigService$PropertyConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/file-servers.properties]
17:36:07,343 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] Schema managed by database dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect.
17:36:07,723 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] No changes were made to the schema.
17:36:09,746 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco root data directory ('dir.root') is: /opt/alfresco/alf_data
17:36:09,781 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.PatchExecuter] Checking for patches to apply …
17:36:09,998 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.PatchExecuter] No patches were required.
17:36:10,002 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] Found 0 module(s).
17:36:10,143 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/alfresco-shared.properties]
17:36:10,706 INFO  [org.alfresco.service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - v1.6.0_13-b03; maximum heap size 493,063MB
17:36:10,707 WARN  [org.alfresco.service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - WARNING - maximum heap size 493,063MB is less than recommended 512MB
17:36:10,708 INFO  [org.alfresco.service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco started (Labs): Current version 3.0.0 (e dev 1688) schema 2008 - Installed version 3.0.0 (e dev 1688) schema 2008
17:36:21,069 INFO  [org.alfresco.web.site.FrameworkHelper] Successfully Initialized Web Framework  
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But is it the correct way to solve the problem? Or did I something wrong while installing?

Regards,
Thomas

[janv]

Your workaround seems reasonable, especially if you're seeing some activities via Share … it looks as if that particularly dev build includes some changes mid-stream.

On HEAD, we've moved away from using the following files:

alfresco/extension/custom-activities-feed-context.xml
alfresco/extension/custom-activities-SqlMapConfig.xml
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These will no longer be required (or installed) in the next labs / preview release.

Regards,
Jan

[tonytony]

I've been chasing this down all day friday and 1/2 day today, until I found this post. I upgraded from version C to E (by dropping in the nightly war file) and had the same exact issue until I copied the missing files from a backup. Now all is looking well. (except my paths to external programs, but that's another topic)

Thanks tweisshaar and janv!