problem with installation: Bootstrap failed

[mbayerl]

Hi!

I am trying to install the trial version on my pc but it doesn't work.

I've got:

Windows XP Pro SP2
mySQL 5.0.22

I downloaded "alfresco-enterprise-tomcat-1.3.0.zip"

db_setup.bat works fine and creates the 'Alfreso' account.

When I try 'alf_start.bat' I get the following message:

15:20:20,767 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/alfresco]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.alfresco.web.app.ContextListener
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Bootstrap failed
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterBootstrap.bootstrap(ImporterBootstrap.java:427)
   …
   
Any help will be appreciated.

Michael

[mbayerl]

Affirmative!

[heiko_robert]

please check tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/domain/hibernate-cfg.properties

to ensure that you use the corect dialect:
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect or
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect

dependig on your MySQL-version

[maximshiryaev]

Hi, Michael.

Have you recreated a database before re-run?
Last week I had some problems installing 1.3 under Firebird database - somewhere Alfresco uses localized string that connot be stored if a database codepage is not UTF8. Alter each attempt you should recreate a database because on bootstrap failure it leaves it in inconsistent state. As well as you should remove everything from dir.root folder.

While I've been fighting codepage issues I've missed the moment when the error changed from NullPointerException at $GetValue to Bootstrap failure and spent half an hour trying to find the reason. Clean UTF8 database and empty dir.root solved it.

Maxim.

[christianschuhe]

I just wanted to mention that I had the same problem on Debian 3.1 with jdk 1.5. But for me the modification in the file tutorial.xml in the bootstrap directory solved the problem.

[dasaint_gray]

Hi Maxim Shiryaev,

Did u run the alfresco on Firebird? Most of my application is running on Firebird and i don't want to add additional RDBMS on my server. I've done the setup of Alfresco running on MySQL 5.1 but i need to move on Firebird? Somebody help me very badly? Thank to all the support.