login failed -- labs 3b on RHEL 5 - help please

[cyclonez]

I am trying to evaluate alfresco document management.  I downloaded the 3b installer and ran it, then ran the db_setup.sql file to do the mysql grants.  I started up the server using alf_start.sh and gave it a minute to initialize.  I pulled up http://localhost:8080/share
and tried to login as admin/admin but I get the message "The remote server may be unavailable or your authentication details have not been recognised."

I'm not sure if I've gotten everything set up correctly; I'm new to this product and the documentation is a bit sparse.  Here's the alfresco error log; note that no new errors come up in the log when I (unsucessfully) try to log in.

# grep error alfresco.log
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter' defined in class path resource [alfresco/emailserver/email-service-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.rmi.server.ExportException: internal error: ObjID already in use
Caused by: java.rmi.server.ExportException: internal error: ObjID already in use
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter' defined in class path resource [alfresco/emailserver/email-service-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.rmi.server.ExportException: internal error: ObjID already in use
Caused by: java.rmi.server.ExportException: internal error: ObjID already in use
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter' defined in class path resource [alfresco/emailserver/email-service-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.rmi.server.ExportException: internal error: ObjID already in use
Caused by: java.rmi.server.ExportException: internal error: ObjID already in use

Any help would be greatly appreciate.  I need to get this going ASAP for evaluation and possible enterprise version purchase.


Thanks,

Chris

[newmember]

Did you use these steps?
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Labs_3_on_Linux_with_command_line_interface

[cyclonez]

No, I used the graphical installer and associated instructions.  I'll look at the instructions you sent and make any necessary changes and see how that works.  Thanks.

[cyclonez]

OK, all that was already set up, and it still won't let me log in…. any ideas?

[data0213]

I am running into the same exact problem. I followed instructions to the T, I get Alfresco up and running and I just cannot log in as admin:admin. The funny part is that older installs allowed you to go to http://localhost:8080/alfresco. Now, I have to go to http://localhost:8080/share. Why was this changed?

I don't understand why such a simple install is causing so many problems - I have been at it for almost 8 hours now. Can someone please help - I really need to get this up and running today?

[cyclonez]

I tried the labs 3b install on Windows XP and it worked just fine right out of the box.  Apparently the Linux installer doesn't work, and I haven't found out yet how to reset the admin user's password.  It seems like the development is very windows centric, which seems rather stupid since according to the poll a lot of people are running on Linux; I personally would like to deploy on Solaris.

[newmember]

I had this problem with the admin:admin login on the share interface after I changed to the mysql database.
I think there was a disconnect between the the hsql and mysql database data.
If you start alfresco with hsql then change to mysql, there seems to be an error.
So these steps, clean out the hsql database and the repository.
I am not sure why it fixed the problem but it just did.

BE CAREFUL THIS DELETES ALL YOUR STORED FILES IN ALFRESCO  !!!!!!

I had to:

Stop alfresco:

/opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh stop‍

Delete the data repository:

rm -rf  /opt/alfresco/alf_data/*‍

Drop the alfresco database in mysql:

mysql -p 
mysql>  drop database alfresco;
mysql> exit;‍‍‍

reload the database:

mysql -p < /opt/alfresco/extras/databases/mysql/db_setup.sql‍

Start alfresco:

/opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh start‍

Give it a few minutes to load the tables etc.

Go to the share website:

http://[SERVER]:8080/share‍

[steve]

Hi,

Share is a new client, but the existing 8080/alfresco client is still there…

[lekram]

I had the exactly same problem as the first post of this topic.
The trouble was caused by old configuration of /etc/hosts file in my Debian 4.0
The file had this:

127.0.0.1   localhost
10.3.10.46  alfresco.uci.cu alfresco

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

but my ip address wasn't 10.3.10.46, then I change this by the current ip address and finally solved the problem.

Regards Marcel

[urshah]

i get the same error on Windows XP and think its because i switched databases as well.
what are the instructions to delete and reload the DB for XP?