Re: OK !!! ALMOST - Re: Anyone have any other ideas on my deployment woes?

From: Chuck Hill (chil..lobal-village.net)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2007 - 20:24:24 EST

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    On Dec 20, 2007, at 4:28 PM, James Cicenia wrote:

    > I did back it up already.
    >
    > I have a new dev machine but did not put on WO54. I had copied over
    > WO from my old machine. I might have been crazy to make the jump to
    > Leopard and Eclipse 3.3.2/WOLips but I wasn't that crazy.

    :-)

    > I have production apps after all and will not update WO or my
    > Servers until the threads start calming down.
    >
    > and.. people like myself stop freaking out!

    LOL.

    Well, this came from WOLips then. But it might just have been the
    inclusion of that script from WO 5.4. I am not sure, I am waaaay
    behind the curve on WOLips.

    Chuck

    > On Dec 20, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> On Dec 20, 2007, at 4:06 PM, James Cicenia wrote:
    >>
    >>> Yes I do. And I did and got sooo much back and well last night I
    >>> was a bit burnt out on this problem. With a refresh of sleep, and
    >>> post heavy use of my apps, I felt sane enough and calm enough to
    >>> try everything again.... anyway:
    >>>
    >>> My launch script does have that in it and my old app doesn't.
    >>
    >> I'd back up the new script, and copy over the old one.
    >>
    >>
    >>> So is this something that Mike would know about?
    >>
    >> Is there something that Mike does not know about????
    >>
    >>
    >>> It has to be a WOLips thing as I am not running WO 5.4
    >>
    >> Don't you have 5.4 on your dev machine? I forget now, something
    >> about a new machine...
    >>
    >>
    >> Chuck
    >>
    >>
    >>>
    >>> On Dec 20, 2007, at 5:57 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> Now, do you remember me asking you like, um, several times, if
    >>>> you had done a diff on the two apps? If you had slowed down and
    >>>> done that, this would all be solved now.
    >>>>
    >>>> It looks like your launch script has this in it:
    >>>>
    >>>> if [ "${HOME}" = "" ]
    >>>> then
    >>>> echo ${SCRIPT_NAME}: HOME environment variable is not set!
    >>>> Terminating.
    >>>> exit 1
    >>>> fi
    >>>>
    >>>> Which, I will bet, is NOT in the app that does launch from
    >>>> JavaMonitor. I don't know if this is a WO 5.4 or a WOLips thing.
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>> Chuck
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>> On Dec 20, 2007, at 2:51 PM, James Cicenia wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>> I finally got an error
    >>>>>
    >>>>> "HOME environment variable is not set"
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Where do I set that ?
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Thanks for everyones patience I think I am almost home again.
    >>>>>
    >>>>> James Cicenia
    >>>>>
    >>>>>
    >>>>>
    >>>>> On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
    >>>>>
    >>>>>> James,
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> First, are you logging the wotaskd errors? ........ this will
    >>>>>> let you see what the launch problem is:
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> See here for info on how to set that up. Then launch with
    >>>>>> WOMonitor and then go a cat the log to see what happened. See
    >>>>>> the section Where's my stderr on this page:
    >>>>>> http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/Web
    >>>>>> +Applications-Deployment-Common+Pitfalls+and+Troubleshooting
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> *IMPORTANT* Pay attention to last sentence in that
    >>>>>> section ...... otherwise no apps will launch at all!
    >>>>>> "The one problem now is that typically WebObjects apps run as
    >>>>>> appserver user, which means they won't be able to write to
    >>>>>> this file. To fix this, you can 'touch /var/log/
    >>>>>> webobjects.err' as root, and then chown the blank file to
    >>>>>> whatever user your WebObjects apps run as."
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> My WILD GUESS:
    >>>>>> 1) Permissions still wrong somewhere
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> OR
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> 2) Something in /Library/WebObjects/Extensions is conflicting
    >>>>>> with your app (maybe there is a log4j in there which is
    >>>>>> conflicting with one that is already in your frameworks ....
    >>>>>> ERJars ... for example. If you must have log4j in there, then
    >>>>>> make it the exact same version as the one in your
    >>>>>> framework ... but longterm (and this is MY OPINION) take
    >>>>>> everything OUT of that WO Extensions dir ....... those jars
    >>>>>> are dynamically added to classpath when wotaskd launches.
    >>>>>> Those are not included in classpath when you launch on command
    >>>>>> line NOR when developing in Eclipse... again this is a wild
    >>>>>> guess.
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> anyway, try getting the wotaskd log going .... and be sure to
    >>>>>> report back if success or failure :-)
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> Regards, Kieran
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> On Dec 20, 2007, at 1:27 PM, James Cicenia wrote:
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>>> Hello -
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>> I am really very stumped.
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>> The only thing I can think of why my app won't run from the
    >>>>>>> JavaMonitor has to do with something with my new Eclipse/
    >>>>>>> WOLips setup, compile and build.
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>> BUT, why would it run just great from the command line?
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>> Does anyone have something else for me to look at?
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>> my app.woa has me as owner (admin) and appserveradm as the
    >>>>>>> group. The privileges are: drwxrwx-x and they have been
    >>>>>>> applied recursively.
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>> Anyone?
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>> Thanks
    >>>>>>> James Cicenia
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>>
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