First, I am not trying to implement a multi-server installation as documented in
the wiki.
I am only trying to figure out the difference of GERONIMO_BASE vs. GERONIMO_HOME
I tried this out, and something funny happened, which I think proves my belief
that GERONIMO_HOME and GERONIMO_BASE are assumed, in the code, to point at the
same directory.
Here is what I did to test the GERONIMO_BASE vs. GERONIMO_HOME issue I am
discussing in this thread:
I created the following directory and subdirectories:
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$ mkdir /usr/local/geronimo/
$ cd /usr/local/geronimo/
$ tar zxvf geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.1.1.tgz
$ ln -s geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.1.1/bin
$ ln -s geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.1.1/etc
$ ln -s geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.1.1/lib
$ ln -s geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.1.1/cluster-repository
$ ln -s geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.1.1/master-repository
$ ln -s geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.1.1/repository
$ mkdir default-server
$ cp geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.1.1/var default-server/
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I created the following shell script (following advice from the wiki).
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$ cd /usr/local/geronimo/
$ cd default-server
$ cat start.sh
#!/bin/bash
export GERONIMO_INSTANCE_NAME=default-server
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk1.5.0_07
export JAVA_OPTS='-Xmx64m'
export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:$PATH
export GERONIMO_HOME=/usr/local/geronimo
export GERONIMO_BASE=${GERONIMO_HOME}/${GERONIMO_INSTANCE_NAME}
export GERONIMO_OPTS=-Dorg.apache.geronimo.server.name=${GERONIMO_INSTANCE_NAME}
exec ${GERONIMO_HOME}/bin/startup.sh
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And I get this error in Geronimo:
$ cd /usr/local/geronimo/
$ default-server/start
Using GERONIMO_BASE: /usr/local/geronimo/default-server
Using GERONIMO_HOME: /usr/local/geronimo
Using GERONIMO_TMPDIR: var/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/jdk1.5.0_07/jre
Using GERONIMO_OUT: /usr/local/geronimo/default-server/var/log/geronimo.out
Geronimo started in background. PID: 9723
$ cat /usr/local/geronimo/default-server/var/log/geronimo.out
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10:39:50,674 ERROR [GBeanInstanceState] Error while starting; GBean is now in
the FAILED state:
abstractName="org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car?ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=GBean,name=ServerInfo"
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Server directory is not a directory:
/usr/local/geronimo/geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.1.1/default-server
at
org.apache.geronimo.system.serverinfo.BasicServerInfo.deriveBaseServer(BasicServerInfo.java:187)
at
org.apache.geronimo.system.serverinfo.BasicServerInfo.<init>(BasicServerInfo.java:77)
at
org.apache.geronimo.system.serverinfo.BasicServerInfo.<init>(BasicServerInfo.java:51)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
at
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.createInstance(GBeanInstance.java:948)
at
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.attemptFullStart(GBeanInstanceState.java:268)
at
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.start(GBeanInstanceState.java:102)
at
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.startRecursive(GBeanInstanceState.java:124)
at
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.startRecursive(GBeanInstance.java:555)
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.startRecursiveGBean(BasicKernel.java:379)
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.startConfigurationGBeans(ConfigurationUtil.java:456)
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.loadBootstrapConfiguration(ConfigurationUtil.java:208)
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.loadBootstrapConfiguration(ConfigurationUtil.java:167)
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.util.MainConfigurationBootstrapper.loadBootConfiguration(MainConfigurationBootstrapper.java:84)
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.util.MainConfigurationBootstrapper.getMain(MainConfigurationBootstrapper.java:57)
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.util.MainConfigurationBootstrapper.main(MainConfigurationBootstrapper.java:38)
at org.apache.geronimo.cli.AbstractCLI.executeMain(AbstractCLI.java:67)
at org.apache.geronimo.cli.daemon.DaemonCLI.main(DaemonCLI.java:30)
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.InvalidConfigException: Unknown start
exception
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.startConfigurationGBeans(ConfigurationUtil.java:522)
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.loadBootstrapConfiguration(ConfigurationUtil.java:208)
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.loadBootstrapConfiguration(ConfigurationUtil.java:167)
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.util.MainConfigurationBootstrapper.loadBootConfiguration(MainConfigurationBootstrapper.java:84)
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.util.MainConfigurationBootstrapper.getMain(MainConfigurationBootstrapper.java:57)
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.util.MainConfigurationBootstrapper.main(MainConfigurationBootstrapper.java:38)
at org.apache.geronimo.cli.AbstractCLI.executeMain(AbstractCLI.java:67)
at org.apache.geronimo.cli.daemon.DaemonCLI.main(DaemonCLI.java:30)
Caused by: org.apache.geronimo.gbean.InvalidConfigurationException:
Configuration org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car failed to
start due to the following reasons:
The service
ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=GBean,name=ServerInfo
did not start because Server directory is not a directory:
/usr/local/geronimo/geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.1.1/default-server
The service
ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=Repository,name=Repository
did not start because
org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car?ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=GBean,name=ServerInfo
did not start.
The service
ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=ConfigurationStore,name=Local
did not start because
org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car?ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=Repository,name=Repository
did not start.
The service
ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=AttributeStore,name=AttributeManager
did not start because
org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car?ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=GBean,name=ServerInfo
did not start.
The service
ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=ArtifactResolver,name=ArtifactResolver
did not start because
org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car?ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=GBean,name=ServerInfo
did not start.
The service
ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=ConfigurationManager,name=ConfigurationManager
did not start because the following dependent services did not start:
[org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car?ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=AttributeStore,name=AttributeManager,
org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car?ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=ArtifactResolver,name=ArtifactResolver]
The service
ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=SystemLog,name=Logger
did not start because
org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car?ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.1.1/car,j2eeType=GBean,name=ServerInfo
did not start.
at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.startConfigurationGBeans(ConfigurationUtil.java:485)
... 7 more
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Note that in the geronimo.sh script, it is configured:
-Dorg.apache.geronimo.base.dir="$GERONIMO_BASE"
Thus resulting in this case:
-Dorg.apache.geronimo.base.dir=/usr/local/geronimo/default-server
Also note, I used symbolic links in this case to show something.
Even though I set GERONIMO_HOME=/usr/local/geronimo , During run time Geronimo
resolves it real path (/usr/local/geronimo/geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.1.1)
ignoring the path I set in GERONIMO_HOME.
This is not a problem, however, really.
The problem is that I set GERONIMO_BASE=/usr/local/geronimo/default-server , and
Geronimo is complaining that GERONIMO_HOME/default-server does not exist.
Discussion??
-RG
Russell E Glaue wrote:
So you say that setting the following:
GERONIMO_HOME=/usr/local/geronimo
GERONIMO_BASE=/usr/local/geronimo-servers
and copying/moving var/ from GERONIMO_HOME to GERONIMO_BASE
such that { exists /usr/local/geronimo-servers/var }
that geronimo should would run.
As I mentioned in the previous e-mail, the shell scripts are not
configured correctly to allow this without issue.
So if this is true what you say, and what I thought was also true, then
a minor patch is needed to a few shell scripts.
I have attached that patch.
And if there are no disagreements, I will submit the patch.
I will also add documentation in the geronimo wiki to clarify
GERONIMO_BASE vs. GERONIMO_HOME , hopefully avoiding further conflicting
usages in the future.
-RG
David Jencks wrote:
I'm pretty sure the multiple server feature is working as designed,
there's an extra-repo plugin for instance. I don't really understand
what you are trying to do or why you think there's a problem. All I
can see is that you could copy the existing var dir to
etc/geronimo-servers/default-server/var and run with BASE as
etc/geronimo-servers/default-server however IMO this is really weird
to put user modifiable content inside what is intended as a read-only
system level directory.
Perhaps you could explain more what you are trying to do?
thanks
david jencks
-RG
