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Tomcat startup and login exception (using Alpha2)

wir33658
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Champ in-the-making
Hi,

I did the "ant demo.setup" and it succeeded (at least the output from ant at the end).

But when I connect to the explorer or probe and tried to login in I get:

HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.extensions.surf.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to retrieve user from repository
   org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:659)
   org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.NormalRewrittenUrl.doRewrite(NormalRewrittenUrl.java:195)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:159)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:141)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:90)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter.doFilter(UrlRewriteFilter.java:417)

root cause

org.springframework.extensions.surf.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to retrieve user from repository
   org.activiti.surf.ActivitiUserFactory.loadUser(ActivitiUserFactory.java:235)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AbstractUserFactory.initialiseUser(AbstractUserFactory.java:165)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AbstractUserFactory.initialiseUser(AbstractUserFactory.java:99)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.initialiseUser(RequestContextUtil.java:201)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.populateRequestContext(RequestContextUtil.java:174)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.populateRequestContext(RequestContextUtil.java:129)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.mvc.AbstractWebFrameworkView.populateRequestContext(AbstractWebFrameworkView.java:243)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.mvc.AbstractWebFrameworkView.renderMergedOutputModel(AbstractWebFrameworkView.java:105)
   org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:250)
   org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1060)
   org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:798)
   org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
   org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647)
   org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.NormalRewrittenUrl.doRewrite(NormalRewrittenUrl.java:195)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:159)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:141)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:90)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter.doFilter(UrlRewriteFilter.java:417)

root cause

org.springframework.extensions.surf.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to create user - failed to retrieve user info:
   org.activiti.surf.ActivitiUserFactory.loadUser(ActivitiUserFactory.java:186)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AbstractUserFactory.initialiseUser(AbstractUserFactory.java:165)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AbstractUserFactory.initialiseUser(AbstractUserFactory.java:99)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.initialiseUser(RequestContextUtil.java:201)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.populateRequestContext(RequestContextUtil.java:174)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.populateRequestContext(RequestContextUtil.java:129)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.mvc.AbstractWebFrameworkView.populateRequestContext(AbstractWebFrameworkView.java:243)
   org.springframework.extensions.surf.mvc.AbstractWebFrameworkView.renderMergedOutputModel(AbstractWebFrameworkView.java:105)
   org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:250)
   org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1060)
   org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:798)
   org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
   org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647)
   org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.NormalRewrittenUrl.doRewrite(NormalRewrittenUrl.java:195)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:159)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:141)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:90)
   org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter.doFilter(UrlRewriteFilter.java:417)


In another topic (in this forum) some mentinoned that a reboot might help, so I did, but still the same problem. Without doing any thing (only restarting tomcat) the localhost…log says:

09.06.2010 09:34:47 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SCHWERWIEGEND: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.signavio.platform.listeners.EntryPoint
com.signavio.platform.exceptions.InitializationException: Platform boot failed!
   at com.signavio.platform.core.Platform.bootInstance(Platform.java:81)
   at com.signavio.platform.listeners.EntryPoint.contextInitialized(EntryPoint.java:61)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3972)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4467)
   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:546)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:905)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:740)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:500)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785)
   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:519)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)
   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:289)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No match found
   at java.util.regex.Matcher.group(Matcher.java:468)
   at java.util.regex.Matcher.group(Matcher.java:428)
   at com.signavio.platform.core.impl.FsPlatformPropertiesImpl.<init>(FsPlatformPropertiesImpl.java:87)
   at com.signavio.platform.core.impl.FsPlatformInstanceImpl.bootInstance(FsPlatformInstanceImpl.java:61)
   at com.signavio.platform.core.Platform.bootInstance(Platform.java:77)
   … 25 more
09.06.2010 09:34:47 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStop
SCHWERWIEGEND: Exception sending context destroyed event to listener instance of class com.signavio.platform.listeners.EntryPoint
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at com.signavio.platform.core.impl.FsPlatformInstanceImpl.shutdownInstance(FsPlatformInstanceImpl.java:95)
   at com.signavio.platform.core.Platform.shutdownInstance(Platform.java:91)
   at com.signavio.platform.listeners.EntryPoint.contextDestroyed(EntryPoint.java:50)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStop(StandardContext.java:4011)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.stop(StandardContext.java:4615)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4512)
   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:546)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:905)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:740)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:500)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785)
   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:519)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)
   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:289)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
09.06.2010 09:34:51 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter INFO: loaded (conf ok)
09.06.2010 09:34:51 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet'
09.06.2010 09:34:57 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter INFO: loaded (conf ok)
09.06.2010 09:34:57 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet'
09.06.2010 09:35:01 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
09.06.2010 09:35:04 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
09.06.2010 09:35:04 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()


So it looks like there is allready something wroing during startup.


To the modeller I could not even connect, I get "HTTP Status 404"
16 REPLIES 16

wir33658
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Came back to this and checked the exceptions more closely and figured out that it must have something to do with the modeller.

So I took activiti-modeler from the webapps out and so I got no exceptions at tomcat-startup and I can login now.

Now, I get the same as in Garys entry in http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=56

I had the same problem starting Activity with my own code using the in-mem db. Someone wrote to start the app with -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 and it worked. But I have no idea how to do this within Tomcat (well, I will try to start tomcat with this and see if this works, and let you know).

Anyhow, there is still the problem with the activiti-modeler.

Please, check it out, I really need the modeler. Thanks.

Cheers, Rob.

wir33658
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Came back to this and checked the exceptions more closely and figured out that it must have something to do with the modeller.

So I took activiti-modeler from the webapps out and so I got no exceptions at tomcat-startup and I can login now.

Now, I get the same as in Garys entry in http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=56

I had the same problem starting Activity with my own code using the in-mem db. Someone wrote to start the app with -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 and it worked. But I have no idea how to do this within Tomcat (well, I will try to start tomcat with this and see if this works, and let you know).

Anyhow, there is still the problem with the activiti-modeler.

Please, check it out, I really need the modeler. Thanks.

Cheers, Rob.

If you get Garys problem check out this http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=71&p=225&hilit=org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLException#p225

If you run tomcat you can add this to the catalina.bat at the 4 %_EXECJAVA%-lines (pretty much the last ones) like this

%_EXECJAVA% %JAVA_OPTS% … -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

I hope this helps.

tombaeyens
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Thanks for sharing your findings!

activiti-admin
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Hi,

I also did the demo setup and had the same login problem. The buildfile tries to copy a ${user.home}/.activiti/tomcat-users.xml file.
but because this is a first setup it does not exist on my system! After the setup my tomcat-users.xml file is the default tomcat-users.xml (tomcat distribution). 

Trying to fix this, I replaced the tomcat file with this, after that I was able to login.

<tomcat-users>
  <role rolename="admin"/>
  <role rolename="manager"/>
  <role rolename="user"/>
  <user username="kermit" password="kermit" roles="admin"/>
  <user username="gonzo" password="gonzo" roles="manager"/>
  <user username="fozzie" password="fozzie" roles="user"/>
</tomcat-users>

After login I also had the UTF-8 sql problems connecting to the database,
adding the suggested UTF-8 file encoding to the tomcat startup fixed that.

Regards,
Herman de Vette

tombaeyens
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thanks herman, i'll review in the next release http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-50

deliche
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Hi,
trying to install alpha3 on Ubuntu server 9.10, I'm now able to reach the login pages for activiti-probe and activit-explorer.
I modified the apache-tomcat…/conf/tomcat-users.xml with these lines:

<tomcat-users>
  <role rolename="admin"/>
  <role rolename="manager"/>
  <role rolename="user"/>
  <user username="kermit" password="kermit" roles="admin"/>
  <user username="gonzo" password="gonzo" roles="manager"/>
  <user username="fozzie" password="fozzie" roles="user"/>
</tomcat-users>

Then I added the UTF-8 option on catalina.bat (useful in linux SO?):
%_EXECJAVA% %JAVA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 %CATALINA_OPTS% %JPDA_OPTS% %DEBUG_OPTS% -Djava.endorsed.dirs="%JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" -Djava.security.manager -Djava.security.policy=="%SECURITY_POLICY_FILE%" -Dcatalina.base="%CATALINA_BASE%" -Dcatalina.home="%CATALINA_HOME%" -Djava.io.tmpdir="%CATALINA_TMPDIR%" %MAINCLASS% %CMD_LINE_ARGS% %ACTION%

When try to login, I read this error:

HTTP Status 500 -

——————————————————————————–

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.extensions.surf.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to retrieve user from repository
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:659)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.NormalRewrittenUrl.doRewrite(NormalRewrittenUrl.java:195)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:159)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:141)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:90)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter.doFilter(UrlRewriteFilter.java:417)


root cause

org.springframework.extensions.surf.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to retrieve user from repository
org.activiti.surf.ActivitiUserFactory.loadUser(ActivitiUserFactory.java:235)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AbstractUserFactory.initialiseUser(AbstractUserFactory.java:165)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AbstractUserFactory.initialiseUser(AbstractUserFactory.java:99)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.initialiseUser(RequestContextUtil.java:201)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.populateRequestContext(RequestContextUtil.java:174)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.populateRequestContext(RequestContextUtil.java:129)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.mvc.AbstractWebFrameworkView.populateRequestContext(AbstractWebFrameworkView.java:243)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.mvc.AbstractWebFrameworkView.renderMergedOutputModel(AbstractWebFrameworkView.java:105)
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:250)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1060)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:798)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.NormalRewrittenUrl.doRewrite(NormalRewrittenUrl.java:195)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:159)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:141)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:90)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter.doFilter(UrlRewriteFilter.java:417)


root cause

org.springframework.extensions.surf.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to create user - failed to retrieve user info:
org.activiti.surf.ActivitiUserFactory.loadUser(ActivitiUserFactory.java:186)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AbstractUserFactory.initialiseUser(AbstractUserFactory.java:165)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AbstractUserFactory.initialiseUser(AbstractUserFactory.java:99)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.initialiseUser(RequestContextUtil.java:201)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.populateRequestContext(RequestContextUtil.java:174)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.populateRequestContext(RequestContextUtil.java:129)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.mvc.AbstractWebFrameworkView.populateRequestContext(AbstractWebFrameworkView.java:243)
org.springframework.extensions.surf.mvc.AbstractWebFrameworkView.renderMergedOutputModel(AbstractWebFrameworkView.java:105)
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:250)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1060)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:798)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.NormalRewrittenUrl.doRewrite(NormalRewrittenUrl.java:195)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:159)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:141)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:90)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter.doFilter(UrlRewriteFilter.java:417)


note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.26 logs.



Thank you in advance for your comments.
Great activiti

Davide Licheri

deliche
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Hi,
just to add the log:

29-lug-2010 18.49.01 org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeProcessor selectAuthScheme
INFO: basic authentication scheme selected
29-lug-2010 18.49.01 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector processWWWAuthChallenge
INFO: No credentials available for BASIC 'Activiti'@localhost:8080

jbarrez
Star Contributor
Star Contributor
David, I just tried to run the demo setup of alpha3 on an Ubuntu 10.4 machine. All works perfect. What browser are you using? What steps did you take to try Activiti?

deliche
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Champ in-the-making
Hi Joram,
my browser is firefox 3.6.8.
I've a fresh installed Ubuntu server 9.10. I installed ant 1.7.1 and java6-sun.
I set java6-sun as alternatives of openjdk, then dezipped the activiti zip file in /opt/activiti5.0-alpha3.
Permissions of the folder are for the root account. Then run: ant demo.setup.
The installation process seems to be completed successfully.
Rebbot the system, then run the ./startup.sh . Server startup in 76757 ms.
Everything seems good.
I can reach the login pages for probe, explorer, etc.. but when I tried to login with fozzie (fozzie) or the other users, the answer is always the same as reported yesterday.
Catalina.out say:
"30-lug-2010 12.05.10 org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeProcessor selectAuthScheme
INFO: basic authentication scheme selected
30-lug-2010 12.05.10 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector processWWWAuthChallenge
INFO: No credentials available for BASIC 'Activiti'@localhost:8080"

I'm waiting for your thoughts, before to reinstall a fresch 10.05 ubuntu server
Thank you
davide