Hello:
For a time this evening, the errors here were very much like those Amy Roh encountered on her way to successfully an earlier version of Roller a home on GlassFish. The fact that one of the error messages I saw was superficially the same one does not offer me the same solution, however, and matters got worse.
The last stack trace recorded here amid the install's deterioration was:

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Stack trace below
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INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:06,671 IndexManagerImpl:<init> - index dir: / Users/georgefrink/roller_data2/search-index WARN 2007-05-25 02:15:06,712 JDBCExceptionReporter:logExceptions - SQL Error: 1054, SQLState: 42S22 ERROR 2007-05-25 02:15:06,713 JDBCExceptionReporter:logExceptions - Unknown column 'this_.autoenabled' in 'field list' FATAL 2007-05-25 02:15:06,718 RollerContext:contextInitialized - RollerContext initialization failed
org.apache.roller.RollerException
at org.apache.roller.business.hibernate.HibernatePingTargetManagerImpl.getC ommonPingTargets(HibernatePingTargetManagerImpl.java:209) at org.apache.roller.config.PingConfig.initializeCommonTargets (PingConfig.java:194) at org.apache.roller.ui.core.RollerContext.initializePingFeatures (RollerContext.java:283) at org.apache.roller.ui.core.RollerContext.contextInitialized (RollerContext.java:185) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart (StandardContext.java:3764) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start (StandardContext.java:4216) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal (ContainerBase.java:760) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild (ContainerBase.java:740) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild (StandardHost.java:544) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor (HostConfig.java:626) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors (HostConfig.java:553) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps (HostConfig.java:488) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start (HostConfig.java:1138) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent (HostConfig.java:311) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent (LifecycleSupport.java:120) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start (ContainerBase.java:1022) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start (StandardHost.java:736) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start (ContainerBase.java:1014) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start (StandardEngine.java:443) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start (StandardService.java:448) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start (StandardServer.java:700) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java: 552)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start (Bootstrap.java:295) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java: 433)
--- ROOT CAUSE ---
org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not execute query
at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.convert (SQLStateConverter.java:65) at org.hibernate.exception.JDBCExceptionHelper.convert (JDBCExceptionHelper.java:43)
        at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doList(Loader.java:2148)
at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.listIgnoreQueryCache (Loader.java:2029)
        at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.list(Loader.java:2024)
at org.hibernate.loader.criteria.CriteriaLoader.list (CriteriaLoader.java:94)
        at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.list(SessionImpl.java:1552)
        at org.hibernate.impl.CriteriaImpl.list(CriteriaImpl.java:283)
at org.apache.roller.business.hibernate.HibernatePingTargetManagerImpl.getC ommonPingTargets(HibernatePingTargetManagerImpl.java:207) at org.apache.roller.config.PingConfig.initializeCommonTargets (PingConfig.java:194) at org.apache.roller.ui.core.RollerContext.initializePingFeatures (RollerContext.java:283) at org.apache.roller.ui.core.RollerContext.contextInitialized (RollerContext.java:185) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart (StandardContext.java:3764) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start (StandardContext.java:4216) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal (ContainerBase.java:760) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild (ContainerBase.java:740) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild (StandardHost.java:544) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor (HostConfig.java:626) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors (HostConfig.java:553) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps (HostConfig.java:488) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start (HostConfig.java:1138) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent (HostConfig.java:311) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent (LifecycleSupport.java:120) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start (ContainerBase.java:1022) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start (StandardHost.java:736) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start (ContainerBase.java:1014) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start (StandardEngine.java:443) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start (StandardService.java:448) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start (StandardServer.java:700) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java: 552)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start (Bootstrap.java:295) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java: 433) Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Unknown column 'this_.autoenabled' in 'field list'
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:2975)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:1600)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:1695)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.execSQL(Connection.java:3026)
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeInternal (PreparedStatement.java:1137) at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeQuery (PreparedStatement.java:1231) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.executeQuery (DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:92) at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.getResultSet (AbstractBatcher.java:139)
        at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.getResultSet(Loader.java:1669)
        at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQuery(Loader.java:662)
at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQueryAndInitializeNonLazyCollections (Loader.java:224)
        at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doList(Loader.java:2145)
        ... 33 more
INFO  2007-05-25 02:15:06,732 IPBanFilter:init - INIT IPBanFilter
INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:06,735 CompressionFilter:init - Compressed Output ENABLED INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:06,743 RequestMappingFilter:init - Request mapping filter initialized, 1 mappers configured. INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,423 PageServlet:init - Initializing PageServlet INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,426 WeblogPageCache:<init> - {timeout=3600, enabled=true, size=400, id=cache.weblogpage} INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,431 CacheManager:<clinit> - Cache Manager Initialized. INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,432 CacheManager:<clinit> - Cache Factory = org.apache.roller.util.cache.ExpiringLRUCacheFactoryImpl INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,436 FuturePostingsInvalidationJob:input - Peeking 3 minutes into the future each pass INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,437 ContinuousWorkerThread:run - future invalidations thread Started. INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,447 SiteWideCache:<init> - {timeout=1800, enabled=true, size=50, id=cache.sitewide} INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,448 PageServlet:init - Referrer processing enabled = true INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,453 FeedServlet:init - Initializing FeedServlet INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,455 WeblogFeedCache:<init> - {timeout=3600, enabled=true, size=200, id=cache.weblogfeed} INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,460 ResourceServlet:init - Initializing ResourceServlet INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,468 SearchServlet:init - Initializing SearchServlet INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,483 CommentServlet:init - Initializing CommentServlet INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,485 CommentServlet:init - Comment Throttling DISABLED
INFO  2007-05-25 02:15:07,488 RSDServlet:init - Initializing RSDServlet
INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,493 PlanetFeedServlet:init - Initializing PlanetRssServlet INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,502 PlanetCache:<init> - Planet cache = {timeout=1800, enabled=true, size=10, id=cache.planet} INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,506 PreviewResourceServlet:init - Initializing PreviewResourceServlet INFO 2007-05-25 02:15:07,519 PreviewServlet:init - Initializing PreviewServlet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------

Interpretations and recommendations would be appreciated.

Respectfully,

George Frink



On May 24, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Dave wrote:

On 5/24/07, George Frink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello:
        Thank you again for the help, Dave.
        All is now well.
Just in case someone might benefit from them, a summary of the
solutions follows.

I'm glad you were able to figure that out. Thanks for writing up your solution.


(2) Restoring the contents of the "folderassoc" table to its state
at the time of still-unexplained deletion.

That deletion is pretty frightening. Nobody else has reported that
problem, so I hope it is a one-time fluke or user-error on your part.
Any ideas how it could have happened?


        In retrospect, I should have devoted more time to reading and
enjoying the source code which emitted the two errors which
confounded me.
Had I done so as my first recourse, I would have understood each
error and its associated stack trace as a meaningful error message.
        No excuse.
It does occur to me, and perhaps I am being unreasonable here, that
those who have not been programming in Java for a few years might
perhaps benefit from error messages which are somewhat more
expressive in a literary sense.

Better error messages would definitely be helpful everywhere in
Roller. Users should never have to resort to reading the source code.
But database corruption is non a common event with Roller (or at least
with post 1.x Roller), they're hard to recover from and hard to
explain via error messages.


One reasonable rejoinder would be that if I feel strongly enough to
voice that sentiment in public, I should offer code (which would be
accepted or discarded as appropriate). Not talk. Point taken (falls
silent ... turns to keyboard).

Specific suggestions for improving error messages would also be helpful.

- Dave


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