Your best bet is to restore your data directory from yesterday's backup. Ian
On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 08:55, Parhjin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I realise this is a very old version of geoserver and there are a lot > of > changes by now, but I would appreciate if anybody could point me in the > right direction.. I have done quite a lot of googling, but in the first > place, this seems like a rare problem and the specifics are always > different > for most cases. > > 1) I have geoserver 2.6.1 with java 1.8.0_25 (installed in folders > Java\jre1.8.0_25 and Java\jre8) on a server running Windows Server 2012 R2 > Standard. Some OSM data are in an MS SQL server referenced from inside > Geoserver. > 2) This setup was running perfectly fine for years, so there is no problem > with the configuration. > 3) A recent reboot of the system made the geoserver maps unavailable, an > even the administration pages, both remotely and on the server itself. > 4) The error was the famous "HTTP ERROR: 503 SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE". This > indicates the jetty server (and java) is running, but the geoserver could > not start. A check with the windows services indicates the geoserver > service > is running. Restarting the geoserver service or rebooting the server did > not > solve the problem. > 5) Checking through the wrapper.log I think I found the relevant lines > (with > some additional lines before and after for context): > > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/23 20:29:16 | 23 May 20:29:16 INFO > [ows.OWSHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/wms] onto handler 'dispatcher' > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/23 20:29:16 | 23 May 20:29:16 INFO > [ows.OWSHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/wms/*] onto handler > 'dispatcher' > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/23 20:29:16 | 23 May 20:29:16 INFO > [ows.OWSHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/animate] onto handler > 'dispatcher' > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/23 20:29:16 | 23 May 20:29:16 INFO > [ows.OWSHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/animate/*] onto handler > 'dispatcher' > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/23 20:29:16 | 2019-05-23 20:29:16.995::WARN: > Failed startup of context > org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext@1087a7b > {/geoserver,file:/C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/GeoServer%202.6.1/webapps/geoserver/} > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/23 20:29:16 | java.lang.RuntimeException: > com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.StreamException: : only whitespace content > allowed before start tag and not \u0 (position: START_DOCUMENT seen \u0... > @1:1) > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/23 20:29:16 | at > > org.geoserver.security.GeoServerSecurityManager.onApplicationEvent(GeoServerSecurityManager.java:335) > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/23 20:29:16 | at > > org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:97) > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/23 20:29:16 | at > > org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:327) > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/23 20:29:16 | at > > org.geoserver.platform.GeoServerContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(GeoServerContextLoaderListener.java:26) > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/23 20:29:16 | at > > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java:540) > > > 6) some more googling tells me that this is because an XML file being read > is not formatted properly. Because everything was working fine before, I > guess that this file was corrupted somehow. But I could not find the > affected file. > > 7) comparing with the log from a normal start up on the same machine tells > me that the affected part is probably the security section (but I still > could not find the affected file, if it is really that problem): > > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/02 15:17:35 | 02 May 15:17:35 INFO > [ows.OWSHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/wms] onto handler 'dispatcher' > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/02 15:17:35 | 02 May 15:17:35 INFO > [ows.OWSHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/wms/*] onto handler > 'dispatcher' > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/02 15:17:35 | 02 May 15:17:35 INFO > [ows.OWSHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/animate] onto handler > 'dispatcher' > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/02 15:17:35 | 02 May 15:17:35 INFO > [ows.OWSHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/animate/*] onto handler > 'dispatcher' > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/02 15:17:36 | 02 May 15:17:36 INFO > [geoserver.security] - AuthenticationCache Initialized with 1000 Max > Entries, 300 seconds idle time, 600 seconds time to live and 3 concurrency > level > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/02 15:17:36 | 02 May 15:17:36 INFO > [geoserver.security] - AuthenticationCache Eviction Task created to run > every 600 seconds > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/02 15:17:36 | 02 May 15:17:36 INFO > [geoserver.security] - Start reloading user/grous for service named default > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/02 15:17:36 | 02 May 15:17:36 INFO > [geoserver.security] - Reloading user/groups successful for service named > default > INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/05/02 15:17:36 | 2019-05-02 15:17:36.354::INFO: > Opened C:\Program Files (x86)\GeoServer 2.6.1\logs\2019_05_02.request.log > > > 8) how do I proceed from here? short of reinstalling the whole thing with > the latest version (that opens a can with some worms, like migrating the > data over and configuring everything again) > > Thanks in advance for any advice. > rgds > PJ > > > > -- > Sent from: > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/GeoServer-User-f3786390.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > > Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to > this list: > - Earning your support instead of buying it, but Ian Turton: > http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/ > - The GeoServer user list posting guidelines: > http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html > > If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: > https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer > > > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users > -- Ian Turton
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