store 'avm://sitestore' has a duplicate root node entry.

[targa2000]

using Alfresco 3.2 EE on Vista. installation went well.  Was using it for a while, then on one startup, came up with error:

15:07:49,936  ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: 00210000 The store 'avm://sitestore
' has a duplicate root node entry.

on another forum entry with similar problem someone suggested stopping tomcat, deleting alf_data, dropping alfresco database and
then recreating it.  But I have no alfresco database in mysql.  Instead I have information_schema and test databases.  Any suggestions?

full error message:

15:07:49,680  INFO  [repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco root data dir
ectory ('dir.root') is: C:\ALFRES~2.2\alf_data
15:07:49,936  ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: 00210000 The store 'avm://sitestore
' has a duplicate root node entry.
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.check(ConfigurationCheck
er.java:294)
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.access$000(Configuration
Checker.java:74)
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker$1.execute(ConfigurationC
hecker.java:186)
        at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransacti
on(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:327)
        at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransacti
on(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:253)
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.onBootstrap(Configuratio
nChecker.java:190)
        at org.alfresco.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLi
fecycleBean.java:62)
        at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster$1
.run(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:77)
        at org.springframework.core.task.SyncTaskExecutor.execute(SyncTaskExecut
or.java:49)
        at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.m
ulticastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:75)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publis
hEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:246)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finish
Refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:617)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refres
h(AbstractApplicationContext.java:355)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationCon
text(ContextLoader.java:246)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationConte
xt(ContextLoader.java:189)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitiali
zed(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
        at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(Context
LoaderListener.java:69)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContex
t.java:3843)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4
342)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase
.java:791)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:77
1)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)

        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.ja
va:627)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.j
ava:553)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:488
)
        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(Lifecycl
eSupport.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:5
16)
        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(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.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)
21.01.2010 15:07:50 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SCHWERWIEGEND: Error listenerStart

[lyamamot]

Try editing tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/repository.properties and setting index.recovery.mode to AUTO.

[sselvan]

I hope you have seen this bug in JIRA, which exactly talks about your problem - Looks like it is just a mismatch in configuration.

http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-2068?focusedCommentId=27492

Hope this will helpful for you!

[georgosn]

I have the same problem with 3.1.2 Enterprise edition and I have corrected the custom repository to point to the proper path. any other things I could try?