Ben, this solves the problem. The geoserver starts after adding the user "user" to the group "users".
Thanks for your very quick help, Christoph Am Do., 20. Sep. 2018 um 00:50 Uhr schrieb Ben Caradoc-Davies < [email protected]>: > Christoph, > > I can reproduce this failure. For some reason, the user "user" is not a > member of the "users" group on the vmdk. This prevents GeoServer from > writing to its data directory and causes GeoServer to fail to start. > > You can fix your vmdk with the following one-time procedure: > > (1) Start a terminal. > > (2) Run "sudo adduser user users". > > (3) To apply this change to your desktop session, you need to either > restart the virtual machine or log out and log back in (username "user", > password "user"). > > GeoServer should now start normally. > > The iso image is not affected by this problem. > > Kind regards, > Ben. > > On 20/09/2018 09:55, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > Christoph, > > > > how did you start GeoServer? > > > > What happens if you open a terminal and run "geoserver_start.sh"? > > > > Which vmdk file did you download and what is its md5sum? > > > > Kind regards, > > Ben. > > > > On 20/09/2018 09:03, Christoph Steinforth wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> please apologize if this has been asked before, but I was not able to > >> find > >> a concise answer. > >> > >> The geoserver within the OSGeo 12 VirtualBox vmdk-file won't start. Is > >> there anything wrong with the vmdk? > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> > >> Christoph > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> osgeolive mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive > >> > > > > -- > Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> > Director > Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> > New Zealand >
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