On 01/04/2015 03:32, Alan Evans wrote:
Hello,
I originally stumbled across the syncope.xml[1] file and uncommented
and corrected the fields for my database setup (postgres). But I have
been running into the problem described in SYNCOPE-606[2] where I get
popups reading "Cannot commit when autoCommit is enabled" on the web UI.
I like to original poster did not read the instructions and configure
persistence.properties correctly so I set about putting my system
right. I commented out the Resource in syncope.xml [1]. I had also
installed the 1.2.3 version of the deb so I had to correct
coreContext.xml[3] and persistenceContext.xml [4] to update the lines
with from "/home/.*" to "/etc/apache-syncope".
Now I am unable to get a session. I suspect my syncope instance isn't
connecting to the database despite my /etc/apache-syncope/*.properties
files being configured as recommended. I get an error message
"Session expired: please login again." and a link to the login page.
This is a correct guess.
I thought ok, I would look at configuring a container managed
datasource properly. Editing [5] web.xml and whatnot. I put my
Resource back in syncope.xml [1] and edited web.xml [5] per the wiki
[6] and also fix persistenceContextEMFactory.xml[7] per SYNCOPE-606 [2].
What is this? SYNCOPE-606 was not a problem, there should be nothing to
fix in persistenceContextEMFactory.xml
Now I can login, but when I try to edit a user I get an error "[Unable
to obtain a TransactionManager using null.]".
Some questions and observations.
1. The files I edit in /var/lib/tomcat7 are being overwritten when
tomcat re-explodes the syncope-war.
Perhaps the deb could contain a pre-exploded application? Fixing the
build so that paths don't refer to /home/<user> would help but only
with files explicitly moved to /etc/apache-syncope.
2. When I upgraded from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3 the debian package overwrote
some of the files in /etc/apache-syncope.
I thought deb pkgs always treated /etc/* as conf files and didn't
blatantly overwrite them.
I thought so as well, this does not seem to comply with
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-conffiles.html#sE.1
This lead me to look at the 'conffiles' of the deb pkg and it mentions
syncope-core.xml [8] which doesn't seem to exist. Should that be
syncope.xml [1]?
That's correct: would you mind to open an issue about this specific aspect?
3. There is an example datasource in syncope.xml [1] but the wiki [6]
mentions editing context.xml, which is the correct way? Does it matter?
The wiki page [6] is generally referred to standalone Tomcat instances,
you are working instead with a DEB packaged Tomcat which expects a
specific context file for each application. Shortly: use syncope.xml.
It might be prudent to move the commented section to the proper
location if syncope.xml [1] isn't the proper location.
Regards,
-Alan
[1] /etc/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost/syncope.xml
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNCOPE-606
[3] /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/syncope/WEB-INF/classes/coreContext.xml
[4]
/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/syncope/WEB-INF/classes/persistenceContext.xml
[5] /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/syncope/WEB-INF/web.xml
[6]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/Run+Syncope+in+real+environments#RunSyncopeinrealenvironments-Usedatasource
[7]
/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/syncope/WEB-INF/classes/persistenceContextEMFactory.xml
[8] /etc/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost/syncope-core.xml
--
Francesco Chicchiriccò
Tirasa - Open Source Excellence
http://www.tirasa.net/
Involved at The Apache Software Foundation:
member, Syncope PMC chair, Cocoon PMC, Olingo PMC
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