Hello All, recently I got error report from Alvaro regarding DB connection issue while MariaDB us used After some "email ping-pong" I got logs, relevant part of logs can be found here [1]
The first, huge stack trace provides only general information: "Could not create connection to database server. Attempted reconnect 3 times. Giving up." Nothing to work with BUT the second one states: "The server time zone value 'CEST' is unrecognized or represents more than one time zone. You must configure either the server or JDBC driver (via the serverTimezone configuration property) to use a more specifc time zone value if you want to utilize time zone support." This one provides the root cause of the problem and possible solutions: 1) change server TZ to be more specific i.e. Europe/Berlin (not CEST) 2) edit persistense.xml file and add `serverTimezone` configuration property with TZ of MariaDb server Hope it can help [1] java.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: Could not create connection to database server. Attempted reconnect 3 times. Giving up. at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:110) at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:97) at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:89) at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:63) at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:73) at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectWithRetries(ConnectionImpl.java:905) at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:830) at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:455) at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:240) at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:199) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:664) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:247) at org.apache.openmeetings.web.pages.install.InstallWizard$DbStep$1.onValidateModelObjects(InstallWizard.java:266) at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.internalOnValidateModelObjects(Form.java:1870) at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.process(Form.java:956) at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.onFormSubmitted(Form.java:788) at org.apache.wicket.ajax.form.AjaxFormSubmitBehavior.onEvent(AjaxFormSubmitBehavior.java:176) at org.apache.wicket.ajax.AjaxEventBehavior.respond(AjaxEventBehavior.java:127) at org.apache.wicket.ajax.AbstractDefaultAjaxBehavior.onRequest(AbstractDefaultAjaxBehavior.java:598) at org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.ListenerRequestHandler.internalInvoke(ListenerRequestHandler.java:306) at org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.ListenerRequestHandler.invoke(ListenerRequestHandler.java:280) at org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.ListenerRequestHandler.invokeListener(ListenerRequestHandler.java:222) at org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.ListenerRequestHandler.respond(ListenerRequestHandler.java:208) at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle$HandlerExecutor.respond(RequestCycle.java:914) at org.apache.wicket.request.RequestHandlerExecutor.execute(RequestHandlerExecutor.java:65) at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.execute(RequestCycle.java:282) at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.processRequest(RequestCycle.java:253) at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.processRequestAndDetach(RequestCycle.java:221) at org.apache.wicket.protocol.ws.AbstractUpgradeFilter.processRequestCycle(AbstractUpgradeFilter.java:70) at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.processRequest(WicketFilter.java:206) at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.doFilter(WicketFilter.java:299) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:200) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:607) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:139) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:92) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:678) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:74) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:408) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:834) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1415) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: com.mysql.cj.exceptions.InvalidConnectionAttributeException: The server time zone value 'CEST' is unrecognized or represents more than one time zone. You must configure either the server or JDBC driver (via the serverTimezone configuration property) to use a more specifc time zone value if you want to utilize time zone support. at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) at com.mysql.cj.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:61) at com.mysql.cj.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:85) at com.mysql.cj.util.TimeUtil.getCanonicalTimezone(TimeUtil.java:132) at com.mysql.cj.protocol.a.NativeProtocol.configureTimezone(NativeProtocol.java:2241) at com.mysql.cj.protocol.a.NativeProtocol.initServerSession(NativeProtocol.java:2265) at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.initializePropsFromServer(ConnectionImpl.java:1319) at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectWithRetries(ConnectionImpl.java:868) ... 44 common frames omitted -- WBR Maxim aka solomax