the server.log is configured by $GF_HOME/domains/domain1/config.xml virtual-server description
<virtual-server hosts="${com.sun.aas.hostName}" http-listeners="http-listener-1,http-listener-2" id="server" log-file="${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}/logs/server.log" state="on">
in the same config.xml there is a log service which is configured in the same file which looks like
<log-service alarms="false" file="${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}/logs/server.log" log-rotation-limit-in-bytes="2000000" log-rotation-timelimit-in-minutes="0" log-to-console="false" retain-error-statistics-for-hours="5" use-system-logging="false">
<module-log-levels admin="INFO" classloader="INFO" cmp="INFO" cmp-container="INFO" configuration="INFO" connector="INFO" corba="INFO" deployment="INFO" ejb-container="INFO" group-management-service="INFO" javamail="INFO" jaxr="INFO" jaxrpc="INFO" jdo="INFO" jms="INFO" jta="INFO" jts="INFO" management-event="INFO" mdb-container="INFO" naming="INFO" node-agent="INFO" resource-adapter="INFO" root="INFO" saaj="INFO" security="INFO" self-management="INFO" server="INFO" synchronization="INFO" util="INFO" verifier="INFO" web-container="INFO"/>
</log-service>
if these dont log for you i would download and install cygwin on your box
then redirect stderr to server.log e.g.
login as user root which has read/write/execute and delete access to all folders
cygwin>asadmin start-appserv 2>server.log
--or for redirecting stdout
cygwin>asadmin start-appserv 1>server.log
HTH
Martin Gainty
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> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:41:57 -0800
> From: glassfish_at_javadesktop.org
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> Subject: Re: Try to run updatetool on Windows 7 without any sucess
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> Sorry to hear you are having problems. I would recommend using the path from the log you generated earlier to start the GUI like this (this is the path the exe is exec'ing):
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> D:\glassfishv3\bin\..\pkg\python2.4-minimal\python.exe "D:\glassfishv3\bin\..\updatetool\vendor-packages\updatetool\main.py" --tty ---debug
>
> Start this in command window. Hopefully this will generate some useful output that will help identify the root cause.
>
> Chris
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