server.startup.bat Broken?
Hi, in an attempt to fix some problems I was having with my curernt Jazz installation I uninstalled everything, server and client, and then installed just installed the server (on my Windows XP machine). Now when I try to start it with server.start.bat, the tomcat window comes up and then disappears right away, and there is no error message displayed anywhere.
I tried a few times, also extracting from the server zip file again, but all failed the same way. Is it possible there is registry or system configuration files left over somewehre from the previous installation of Jazz that are messing up the start up script? How can I be sure of a clean install of the server? ps. I looked in the tomcat logs directory but there are no files there. When I insert 'echo' commands in the variout .bat files it gets up to the end of the catalina script, and executes the no security version of Java. After that all I see is the flash of the tomcat window coming up and disappearing. Is there way to at least have the Java command run in the current window so I can see if there is some kind of dierct Java exception? Thanks for any suggestions, (^_^)/ mike. mgarvin@nortel.com |
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Hi Mike
I would try to delete all the files in your jazz directory and then re-unzip the server again. There should be no registry entries for the server, or at least none I have seen so far. Try and reboot in between as well... Any other instances of tomcat or other app server lurking on your machine? Oh - check your zip file is good too. Do you have local admin access, or limited access or even read-only permissions on any of the \jazz subdirectories? Not sure if any of this will help but worth a try. regards anthony |
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Thanks! I will try rebooting, and I'll double check the perms on the folders. I'm also going to try installing the server on a linux box. I would use linux for everything, but I only have normal user perms on linux so I can't install the client there. (on the machines at work)
(^_^)/ mike. |
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Hey, I found the problem(s). So I added a /B to the catalina invocation so I could see the errors before the window closed (this is on windows). It was complaining about missing class files with a partial path..that bag with " Files\...". So I went through some of the startup wrapper scripts and found places where the quoting was messing things up, I started fixing it, but then decided that its not my job to do that and just reinstalled everything under C:\IBM.
Worked perfectly first time :) I'm guessing there is a installation instruction somewhere that says you shouldn't install anyplace that includes spaces in the path (like say the Program Files folder), I missed it :( It would be helpful to make the install instructions more dummy proof on this point. Its such a minor thing and I'm pretty sure other people would give up before I did. It worked for me previously because I installed in a custom directory on my D drive that had no spaces in it. The probelm there is a that it messes up the workspaces, it seems the workspaces/server/client all have to be on the same drive...in order for the check ins to work well. I'm goign to try and get checkins working solidly for myself tonight now that I have the server running ok. Thanks for the tips! (^_^)/ mike. |
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