Tommy, I had previously checked the Paths, and they had the same stuff as the working environments, just in a different order. On your suggestion, I rearranged them to be in the same order as the working systems, but that didn't fix it. When I use Procmon to watch the startups, there is a difference - the working system makes some java calls that the non-working system doesn't. That's why I was wondering if the malformed encoding error was a red herring and I'm dealing with a java path/config issue somewhere.
I'm hoping it's something basic and the answer is an easy... "go to file xyz.xml, and in the section for pentaho, check the tag for the java path". I just need to figure out which xyz.xml file to go to. :-) Thanks for the suggestions (and any others), Thad On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Tommy Morris <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > > Check the Path in Environment Variables on your AR server. There was an > issue where the java path had to be one of the first paths in the string. I > can’t recall the exact error I used to get but it seems similar.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *LJ LongWing > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 08, 2013 4:58 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Error on startup: Malformed \uxxxx encoding**** > > ** ** > > ** **** > > Unfortunately not**** > > On Oct 8, 2013 3:52 PM, "Thad Esser" <[email protected]> wrote:**** > > ** **** > > I've compared every file I can find (using WinMerge) with no luck. Mostly > just server name differences. If you have a specific parameter file in > mind, I'm all ears.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks,**** > > Thad**** > > ** ** > > On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 2:28 PM, LJ LongWing <[email protected]> wrote: > **** > > ** **** > > Thad,**** > > I agree with the google analysis...the method that's throwing the > exception is trying to load a properties file, and it obviously can't > because of some sort of error. Have you run the parameter files through > something like 'ExamDiff' to see if there is some sort of difference that > your eyes aren't seeing?**** > > ** ** > > On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Thad Esser <[email protected]> wrote:** > ** > > ** **** > > Hello,**** > > ** ** > > Has anyone seen this error in their arcarte-stderr-YYYY-MM-DD.log file > when starting AR Server?**** > > ** ** > > -----**** > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Malformed > \uxxxx encoding.**** > > at java.util.Properties.loadConvert(Properties.java:568)**** > > at java.util.Properties.load0(Properties.java:391)**** > > at java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:341)**** > > at org.pentaho.di.www.ARCarte.loadRAppPasswords(Unknown Source)**** > > at org.pentaho.di.www.Carte.runCarte(Unknown Source)**** > > at org.pentaho.di.www.Carte.main(Unknown Source)**** > > -----**** > > ** ** > > After four tries, armonitor gives up trying to start it. Google says its > most likely that I need double slashes as part of a path in a java > properties file somewhere. Where would I look? Or is that a red herring? > **** > > ** ** > > This is only happening in one environment; two others are fine. I've > compared settings between the three, but am obviously missing something.** > ** > > ** ** > > ARS 8.1**** > > OS: Windows 2008 R2**** > > DB: SQL Server**** > > ** ** > > Thanks,**** > > Thad**** > > ** ** > > P.S. BMC has already had me update the application password in > UDM:RAppPassword.**** > > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ **** > > ** ** > > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ **** > > ** ** > > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ **** > > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ **** > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
