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Re: start-domain fails to finish for 600 seconds

From: Paul M Davies (Oracle) <"Paul>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:33:42 -0800

Hi,

I see that the RFE does not mention adding an option like --timeout to
start-domain. Any particular reason not to include the addition of such
an option as part of this RFE?

-Paul

On 02/18/11 08:29, Tom Mueller wrote:
> We have the following issue filed for making start-domain smarter
> about how long to wait:
> http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-10076
>
> Currently, the command is hard-coded to wait 10 minutes for the DAS to
> either finish starting (by creating the "pid" file) or exit. In this
> case, the DAS is doing neither - it just starts and sits there without
> actually making progress towards creating the pid file. See the file
> StartServerHelper.java for details.
>
> Tom
>
> On 2/18/2011 10:01 AM, vince kraemer wrote:
>> Hi Tom, Richard and all,
>>
>> Thanks for the additional info.
>>
>> While I was googling about this yesterday, I noticed that Arun had a
>> TOTD posting for this, that explained the 'solution'...
>> http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/totd_140_moving_glassfish_installation
>>
>>
>> That was excellent.
>>
>> Snjezana wrote to me yesterday and pointed out that this is a filed
>> issue... http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-9988.
>>
>> Does anybody know why it takes start-domain 600 seconds to detect
>> that the server did not start when the exceptions are triggered in
>> less than one second?
>>
>> Could we put a better message into the log file or in the
>> start-domain command's response for this?
>>
>> Or, just fail faster, so the user can start to take action sooner,
>> rather than later...
>>
>> vbk
>>
>> ps... I kept the strace on this message to help users find the info
>> that will help them...
>>
>>
>> Richard S. Hall wrote:
>>> On 2/18/11 9:52, Tom Mueller wrote:
>>>> Vince,
>>>> I appears that the Felix is not properly detecting that the
>>>> directory moved.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like it is seeing the "new" modules at the new directory
>>>> name, but every new module looks like a duplicate of the old module
>>>> at the old directory name. Felix is not realizing that the old
>>>> modules are now gone.
>>>
>>> Felix is not involved in such issues, it is the framework launcher
>>> that tries to re-deploy bundles, so it would be the one that would
>>> need to detect it.
>>>
>>> -> richard
>>>
>>>>
>>>> If the domain's osgi_cache directory is removed after changing the
>>>> name of the directory, then the domain will startup just fine.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2/17/2011 5:39 PM, Vince Kraemer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> WARNING: Failed to install
>>>>> file:/export/home/vkraemer/GlassFish_Server5/glassfish/modules/gms-bootstrap.jar
>>>>>
>>>>> org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Bundle symbolic name and
>>>>> version are not unique: org.glassfish.cluster.gms-bootstrap:3.1.0
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.felix.framework.BundleImpl.createModule(BundleImpl.java:1180)
>>>>>
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.felix.framework.BundleImpl.<init>(BundleImpl.java:79)
>>>>> at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.installBundle(Felix.java:2528)
>>>>> at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.installBundle(Felix.java:2436)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.felix.framework.BundleContextImpl.installBundle(BundleContextImpl.java:129)
>>>>>
>>>>> at org.jvnet.hk2.osgimain.Main.install(Main.java:363)
>>>>> at org.jvnet.hk2.osgimain.Main.traverse(Main.java:293)
>>>>> at org.jvnet.hk2.osgimain.Main.start(Main.java:144)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.felix.framework.util.SecureAction.startActivator(SecureAction.java:629)
>>>>>
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.activateBundle(Felix.java:1835)
>>>>> at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.startBundle(Felix.java:1752)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.setActiveStartLevel(Felix.java:1156)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.felix.framework.StartLevelImpl.run(StartLevelImpl.java:264)
>>>>>
>>>>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
>>>>>
>>>>> the last strace I see (if I start-domain --verbose) is this one
>>>>>
>>>>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>>>> at org.jvnet.hk2.osgimain.Main.start(Main.java:147)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.felix.framework.util.SecureAction.startActivator(SecureAction.java:629)
>>>>>
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.activateBundle(Felix.java:1835)
>>>>> at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.startBundle(Felix.java:1752)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.setActiveStartLevel(Felix.java:1156)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.felix.framework.StartLevelImpl.run(StartLevelImpl.java:264)
>>>>>
>>>>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
>>>>>
>>>>> vbk
>>>>>
>>


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