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Best regards, Benoit TELLIER General manager of Linagora VIETNAM. Product owner for Team-Mail product. Chairman of the Apache James project. Mail: btell...@linagora.com Tel: (0033) 6 77 26 04 58 (WhatsApp, Signal) On Aug 20, 2025 10:30 AM, from A. Rothman <amich...@amichais.net>If you're running it from a shell script, you can use a glob pattern or find command to first get the jar name into a variable and then use that in the command arguments, that way it will work with whatever version is provided, so a bit less brittle. On 8/19/25 17:17, Benoit TELLIER wrote: > Hello Marc > > Sorry, I am jus back from vacation where I enjoyed the luxury of a bit of > deconnection > > Regarding your issue, it is due to a mis-allignement of the JPA agent. > > It needs to be 3.2.0 for 3.8.x > > CF > github.com/apache/james-project/blob/8d0e75ff1de1e378c853f9d5075d6ffe1ce9446a/server/apps/demo/startup.sh#L11 > CF > github.com/apache/james-project/tree/james-project-3.8.2/server/apps/jpa-app > -- > > Best regards, > > Benoit TELLIER > > General manager of Linagora VIETNAM. > Product owner for Team-Mail product. > Chairman of the Apache James project. > > Mail: btell...@linagora.com > Tel: (0033) 6 77 26 04 58 (WhatsApp, Signal) > > > On Aug 16, 2025 10:37 PM, from Cryptearth > <cryptea...@cryptearth.de.INVALID>Hello Marc, > > sorry for being late. Usually I try to give the least a look at least > once a day. But I had other priorities over the past couple of months. > > Well, given the error the first few issues comming to my head: > - executing from the wrong directory > - permission issue > - mistype error > - wrong java version > > The doc says required Java13. I run Java17. Maybe the Java version you > use is just too old or too new. Try a version between Java13 and Java17 > - this should work fine. > > I noticed the directory "/mail" - this sounds like a system directory. > Does the user you run have the require permisisons? Note: As James uses > ports below 1024 you either have to start as root or you have to change > the config to ports over 1024 and use your firewall to redirect the > ports (in any case the permissions have to be properly set). > > > Also: Next time please be patient: This is community project with > everyone giving thier own free time. If you don't receive a reply in a > timely manner this usually means that all of those who have read your > message yet just can't help you (there's no point in spamming the list > with "yea, read it, but can't help") or that those you can help you just > hadn't the time to reply. > > Hope this helps. > Otherwise please reply with: > - version of java > - outut of "ls -alFhR /mail/apache-james-3.8/" > > Greetings > > Matt > > Am 15.08.25 um 00:17 schrieb Marc Chamberlin: >> Ping!? Does anyone have an answer or a solution to this issue? I am >> kinda stuck and can't move on until I get James installed for a client >> of mine... >> >> Thanks, Marc... >> >> >> >> On 8/9/25 17:33, Marc Chamberlin wrote: >>> Didn't get very far in trying to install and run the jpa-guice >>> version of the Apache James server! I downloaded the software from >>> >>> apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/james/server/3.8.2/james-server-jpa-guice.zip >>> >>> >>> I am following the instructions at >>> james.apache.org/server/install/guice-jpa.html except for the >>> Maven compilation steps. >>> >>> When I tried to execute and run james, following the instructions >>> exactly, it fails - >>> >>>> quasar:/mail/apache-james-3.8/james-server-jpa-guice #java >>>> -javaagent:james-server-jpa-guice.lib/openjpa-4.1.1.jar \ >>>>> -Dlogback.configurationFile=conf/logback.xml \ >>>>> -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048 \ >>>>> -Dworking.directory=. \ >>>>> -jar james-server-jpa-app.jar >>>> Error opening zip file or JAR manifest missing : >>>> james-server-jpa-guice.lib/openjpa-4.1.1.jar >>>> Error occurred during initialization of VM >>>> agent library failed to init: instrument >>>> >>> I then noted that the version of openjpa, supplied in the dowloaded >>> zip file, was openjpa-3.2.jar >>> >>>> quasar:/mail/apache-james-3.8/james-server-jpa-guice #ll >>>> james-server-jpa-app.lib/openjpa* >>>> -rw------- 1 james mail 4790420 May 10 2021 >>>> james-server-jpa-app.lib/openjpa-3.2.0.jar >>>> >>> so on a hunch I tried running james with that version - >>> >>>> quasar:/mail/apache-james-3.8/james-server-jpa-guice #java >>>> -javaagent:james-server-jpa-guice.lib/openjpa-3.2.0.jar \ >>>>> -Dlogback.configurationFile=conf/logback.xml \ >>>>> -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048 \ >>>>> -Dworking.directory=. \ >>>>> -jar james-server-jpa-app.jar >>>> Error opening zip file or JAR manifest missing : >>>> james-server-jpa-guice.lib/openjpa-3.2.0.jar >>>> Error occurred during initialization of VM >>>> agent library failed to init: instrument >>>> >>> I dunno what to try next, can some kind guru show me the way to >>> nirvana? Marc... >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org
