I ran the test-database script and it returned a successful connection, so
that can be ruled out.

Any other suggestions on what might be wrong?

-Bryce

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Stuart Lewis <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Bryce,
>
> You can check that both your database and email settings are OK by running
> these scripts:
>
>  - [dspace]/bin/dspace test-database
>  - [dspace]/bin/dspace test-email
>
> Depending on the error, if you view the HTML source of the internal error
> page in your browser, half way down you may see a stack trace that will
> indicate the problem. SOme errors however will only show: <!-- No stack
> trace available -->
>
> Check that the user your tomcat server runs as, can write to [dspace]/*
> (for example [dspace]/logs).
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Stuart Lewis
> IT Innovations Analyst and Developer
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>
> On 15/04/2010, at 7:23 AM, bryce ray wrote:
>
> > More information:
> > I can add a top level and side bar new items as well as edit the default
> license.  So it does not seem to be a database problem.  To be safe though
> I've gone through the database information to check to make sure everything
> is right.   The user appears to have the right ownership and privileges.
>  However, I'm not the best with postgresql.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:44 PM, bryce ray <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > The problem occurs when:
> > I have no communities or collections.  I'm trying to create my first top
> level community.  I click to create it type in the name of the community and
> description and click the create button.  I then get an error message saying
> there was an internal server error.
> >
> > I've turned on debugging in the log4j.properties file but  it doesn't
> even look like the log files are working.  They don't seem to be updating
> for anything.  The permissions and ownership seems to be set correctly.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Peter Dietz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I know you said you've checked your logs, but make sure you're checking
> the DSpace log.
> > [dspace]/log/dspace.log.{DATE}
> >
> > You can also get more verbose output by setting the logs to DEBUG mode.
> > Edit [dspace]/config/log4j.properties, and typically that is by changing
> INFO to DEBUG for the A1 section. A bug exists in setting cocoon into DEBUG
> mode, so you can't set that.
> >
> >
> > What step exactly is causing the issue? Is it you've created a community,
> and are creating a collection, or you've created a community, and created a
> collection successfully, and submitting an item gives the problem?
> > If its while submitting an item, is it on item upload? For that, check
> that your assetstore directory exists and is writable by your {tomcat} user.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:46 PM, bryce ray <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I've just installed dspace and am having some difficulties.  Everything
> appears to be working except the create communities function.  When I try to
> submit a new community I get the error:
> >
> > "The system has experienced an internal error. Please try to do what you
> were doing again, and if the problem persists, please contact us so we can
> fix the problem."
> >
> > I've looked through logs and can't seem to find the right log with a more
> detailed description of what is going wrong.  Through searching online I've
> found that some people who experience this were because of permission
> problems.  I have taken the time to triple-check my permissions.
> >
> > Any ideas on what is wrong or suggestions on how I can find out more
> information about the actual "internal server error" which is occurring?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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