Trouble getting started with Alfresco Community Edition 6.2 GA and Docker

[dcorsello]

I've been using Alfresco Community Edition for years on MacOS and Linux.  My last successful deployment was ver. 5.0.a on MacOS Sierra.  I recently updated to High Sierra, and as expected this broke Alfresco.  Unfortunately, I failed to do due dilligence before the upgrade, and moved forward believing that an upgrade to the latest version of Alfresco would be similar to past upgrades.

I have now tried to install Alfresco 6.2 GA using Docker on MacOS High Sierra and Windows 10 without success.  The "docker-compose up" script runs for hours without completing.  It's getting hung up when these warnings are logged:

solr6_1 | 2020-04-01 19:32:14.989 WARN (Thread-12) [ x:alfresco] o.a.s.h.c.AlfrescoSolrClusteringComponent No default engine for document clustering.
solr6_1 | 2020-04-01 19:32:15.951 WARN (Thread-12) [ x:alfresco] o.a.s.c.Config XML parse warning in "solrres:/solrconfig.xml", line 1919, column 88: Include operation failed, reverting to fallback. Resource error reading file as XML (href='solrconfig_insight.xml'). Reason: Can't find resource 'solrconfig_insight.xml' in classpath or '/opt/alfresco-search-services/solrhome/archive'
solr6_1 | 2020-04-01 19:40:26.716 WARN (Thread-12) [ x:alfresco] o.a.s.h.c.AlfrescoSolrClusteringComponent No default engine for document clustering.
solr6_1 | 2020-04-01 19:40:27.881 WARN (searcherExecutor-7-thread-1-processing-x:alfresco) [ x:alfresco] o.a.s.c.SolrContentStore /opt/alfresco-search-services/contentstore will be used as a default path if solr.content.dir property is not defined
solr6_1 | 2020-04-01 19:40:27.881 WARN (searcherExecutor-21-thread-1-processing-x:alfresco) [ x:alfresco] o.a.s.c.SolrContentStore /opt/alfresco-search-services/contentstore will be used as a default path if solr.content.dir property is not defined

It was recommended in this thread that the "Can't find resource 'solrconfig_insight.xml'" warning can be resolved by using a different download of the .yml file from GitHub.  I downloaded that version, compared it to the file I had downloaded previously, and found that it differed only in the versions of several images;  in my original download, alfresco-pdf-renderer, imagemagick, libreoffice, tika and transform-misc were all version 2.1.0, and in the new .yml, they are all verion 2.1.1.  Running "docker-compose up" against the newer file gives the same results.  It looks like the first failed container I tried to remove might not have been removed completely, because the reinstall script reported that a number of files already existed.

Any suggestions on how to correct the errors and get a successful install?

[narkuss]

I'd say this is not the main error. Does all containers start up properly? Can you acces to alfresco, share, solr and t-engines?

Also, check this project to get a working docker-compose file.

[EddieMay]

Hi @dcorsello,

I installed 6.2 ga on my Mac this week using the script @narkuss referred to.  The only issues I encountered were:

1. inadequate write permissions for npm
2. sock:connect connection refused  - see the final comment on how to resolve this issue.

After that, everything seems to be fine.

docker-compose up gets everything up and running

docker ps to see the containers

docker-compose stop - stops everything w/o destroying the containers. docker-compose -start starts it all up again.

HTH