You know, you just can't win this game! :-)
For something that takes an indeterminate and variable time to occur,
it's frustrating to have it just sit there doing nothing while you
wonder what going on. stop-domain is one such function and it has
printed the dots for quite some time. Someone filed a bug saying
that start-domain should do the same, which seemed like a reasonable
request.
Separately, someone complained that start-domain would give up waiting
too soon if you had a domain with lots and lots of applications, so we
extended the time it would wait before giving up, while also improving
it to better detect when the domain fails to start quickly.
In the end, if your domain configuration is broken in certain ways, you
can be left in a situation where it won't fully start, won't die, and
the start-domain command is left waiting for a very long time.
If you prefer start-domain to sit quietly waiting, use --terse or
AS_ADMIN_TERSE=true.
If you want to know what it's doing while it's trying to start, use
--verbose.
If you have some better ideas about how to handle this case, let me know.
kedar wrote on 10/02/09 09:43:
> Cay,
>
> I acknowledge that this can be annoying. And yes, DAS really does not
> mean anything you'd know as far as v3 is concerned. So, I gather that you'd
> like asadmin tool to do the following:
> - If the server does not start after a certain number of "dots" (say 5),
> then
> see what could be wrong instead of just printing more dots.
> - Change "Waiting for DAS to start" to something more meaningful. Would
> "Waiting for server to start" make more sense?
>
> Let us know and we'll work on a fix.
>
> Also, would you please provide your platform details, whether it happens
> standalone or via Eclipse/NetBeans etc?
>
> Regards,
> Kedar
>
> PS - users who know v2 may know of DAS, but as of now, v3 has no concept of
> a Domain Admin Server.
>
> Cay Horstmann wrote:
>> Thanks, I'll try that. I just had another issue with DAS not starting
>> inside Eclipse. It worked on the second try.
>>
>> Sherry Shen wrote:
>>> Hi Cay,
>>>
>>> Thanks for using glassfish and providing feedback.
>>> % asadmin start-domain --verbose
>>> Oct 2, 2009 7:35:17 AM
>>> com.sun.enterprise.admin.launcher.GFLauncherLogger info
>>> INFO: JVM invocation command line:
>>> /space/test1/tool/jdk1.6.0_14/bin/java
>>> .....
>>>
>>> If you can reproduce your issue again, please try to use --verbose to
>>> diagnose the reason.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Sherry
>>> Cay Horstmann wrote, On 10/2/2009 8:03 AM:
>>>
>>>> I know that. At least the older versions didn't show that irritating
>>>> sequence of dots. My point is that instead of adding that
>>>> embellishment we could perhaps expend some effort diagnosing the
>>>> reason when the DAS fails to start.
>>>>
>>>> Wouter van Reeven wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Cay,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Older builds of GlassFish also display the message "Waiting for DAS to
>>>>> start" but it continues very quickly after displaying that message.
>>>>> Looks like either your domain is misconfigured or you ran into a bug.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH, Wouter
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 04:34:38PM +0200, jerome moliere wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Cay,
>>>>>> it seems that your problem is related to the clustering main
>>>>>> component....
>>>>>> DAS stands for Domain Agents Server in the Glassfish vocabulary
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HTH
>>>>>> Jerome
>>>>>> 2009/10/2 Cay Horstmann <cay_at_horstmann.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just upgraded to b66.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is what I got.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ asadmin start-domain --domaindir /home/domains
>>>>>> Waiting for DAS to start.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
>
>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> .......
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That long line of dots did not brighten my morning.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know what DAS is or why I need to wait for it to
>>>>>> start. And then
>>>>>> when it didn't start, why add insult to injury by printing out
>>>>>> these dots?
>>>>>> How about instead printing out a message that tells me what I
>>>>>> can do when
>>>>>> it doesn't start?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I ended up killing the process and trying again. It worked the
>>>>>> next time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cay
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cay S. Horstmann | http://horstmann.com |
>>>>>> mailto:cay_at_horstmann.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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