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Re: b42-web, Linux: updatetool not installable?

From: Wouter van Reeven <wouter_at_van.reeven.nl>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:35:46 +0100

Hi Kristian,


You ran into issue 7232 like I did :-)


Greets, Wouter

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:30:15AM +0100, Kristian Rink wrote:
> Folks;
>
> just downloaded the b42 web distribution (.zip), and, as usually, tried to
> initially install the updatetool using the "bin/updatetool" script:
>
>
> - first attempt failed complaining about "request timeout":
>
> [kr_at_n428 9:20:39] runtime/appservers/glassfishv3/bin> ./updatetool
>
> The software needed for this command (updatetool) is not installed.
>
> If you choose to install Update Tool, your system will be automatically
> configured to periodically check for software updates. If you would like
> to configure the tool to not check for updates, you can override the
> default behavior via the tool's Preferences facility.
>
> When this tool interacts with package repositories, some system information
> such as your system's IP address and operating system type and version
> is sent to the repository server. For more information please see:
>
> http://wiki.updatecenter.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=UsageMetricsUC2
>
> Once installation is complete you may re-run this command.
>
> Would you like to install Update Tool now (y/n): y
>
> Proxy: Using system proxy settings.
> Install image: /home/kr/kontext/runtime/appservers/glassfishv3
> Installing pkg packages.
> IOException: Connection failed: 408: Request Timeout
>
> Could not download application packages. This could be because
> a proxy server is needed to access the internet. Please ensure that
> the system proxy server settings are correct, or set the 'http_proxy'
> environment variable to the full URL of the proxy server.
>
>
>
> ... by the way we need no proxy here and there also is none set:
>
> [kr_at_n428 9:26:41] runtime/appservers/glassfishv3/bin> echo $http_proxy
>
>
> - second attempt failed ending in an NPE:
>
> [kr_at_n428 9:26:45] runtime/appservers/glassfishv3/bin> ./updatetool
>
> The software needed for this command (updatetool) is not installed.
>
> If you choose to install Update Tool, your system will be automatically
> configured to periodically check for software updates. If you would like
> to configure the tool to not check for updates, you can override the
> default behavior via the tool's Preferences facility.
>
> When this tool interacts with package repositories, some system information
> such as your system's IP address and operating system type and version
> is sent to the repository server. For more information please see:
>
> http://wiki.updatecenter.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=UsageMetricsUC2
>
> Once installation is complete you may re-run this command.
>
> Would you like to install Update Tool now (y/n): y
>
> Proxy: Using system proxy settings.
> Install image: /home/kr/kontext/runtime/appservers/glassfishv3
> Installing pkg packages.
> Unrecognized exception: null
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at com.sun.pkg.client.FileList.download(FileList.java:129)
> at com.sun.pkg.client.Image$PackagePlan.preexecute(Image.java:719)
> at com.sun.pkg.client.Image$ImagePlan.execute(Image.java:547)
> at com.sun.pkg.client.Image.installPackages(Image.java:1321)
> at com.sun.pkg.bootstrap.Bootstrap._main(Bootstrap.java:211)
> at com.sun.pkg.bootstrap.Bootstrap._main(Bootstrap.java:154)
> at com.sun.pkg.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:104)
>
>
>
> Hmmm... known problem? Should I be worried? :)
>
> Cheers,
> Kristian
>
>
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