Hi All. As a bit of background. I'm setting up a brand new instance of Archiva 1.4-M4 in AIX, udner WAS8.
The repos have been copied from the old Archiva 1.3 server, but the rest of the setup is new. So, in some ways it's a first time setup, in others, not. In looking though the logs, I see lots of errors/warnings such as this: 2013-02-25 18:47:44,757 [pool-3-thread-1] ERROR org.apache.archiva.repository.scanner.functors.ConsumerProcessFileClosure [] - Consumer [create-archiva-metadata] had an error when processing file [/data/archiva/data/repositories/racv.release/com/ibm/racv/cs/wmb/EXG_CS08_bar_11a/ 4.1.0.6/EXG_CS08_bar_11a-4.1.0.6-sources.jar]: Unable to update a stale item: item.save() java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to update a stale item: item.save() at org.apache.archiva.metadata.repository.jcr.JcrMetadataRepository.save(JcrMetadataRepository.java:1238) ~[metadata-store-jcr-1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at org.apache.archiva.metadata.repository.RepositorySession.save(RepositorySession.java:69) ~[metadata-repository-api-1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT.jar:1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT] at org.apache.archiva.consumers.metadata.ArchivaMetadataCreationConsumer.processFile(ArchivaMetadataCreationConsumer.java:204) ~[archiva-metadata-consumer-1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at org.apache.archiva.consumers.metadata.ArchivaMetadataCreationConsumer.processFile(ArchivaMetadataCreationConsumer.java:229) ~[archiva-metadata-consumer-1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at org.apache.archiva.repository.scanner.functors.ConsumerProcessFileClosure.execute(ConsumerProcessFileClosure.java:60) [archiva-repository-scanner-1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at org.apache.commons.collections.functors.IfClosure.execute(IfClosure.java:118) [commons-collections-3.2.1.jar:3.2.1] at org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils.forAllDo(CollectionUtils.java:389) [commons-collections-3.2.1.jar:3.2.1] at org.apache.archiva.repository.scanner.RepositoryScannerInstance.directoryWalkStep(RepositoryScannerInstance.java:163) [archiva-repository-scanner-1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.fireStep(DirectoryWalker.java:174) [plexus-utils-3.0.8.jar:?] at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:392) [plexus-utils-3.0.8.jar:?] at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:386) [plexus-utils-3.0.8.jar:?] at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:386) [plexus-utils-3.0.8.jar:?] at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:386) [plexus-utils-3.0.8.jar:?] at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:386) [plexus-utils-3.0.8.jar:?] at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:386) [plexus-utils-3.0.8.jar:?] at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:386) [plexus-utils-3.0.8.jar:?] at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:386) [plexus-utils-3.0.8.jar:?] at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scan(DirectoryWalker.java:345) [plexus-utils-3.0.8.jar:?] at org.apache.archiva.repository.scanner.DefaultRepositoryScanner.scan(DefaultRepositoryScanner.java:139) [archiva-repository-scanner-1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at org.apache.archiva.repository.scanner.DefaultRepositoryScanner.scan(DefaultRepositoryScanner.java:71) [archiva-repository-scanner-1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at org.apache.archiva.scheduler.repository.ArchivaRepositoryScanningTaskExecutor.executeTask(ArchivaRepositoryScanningTaskExecutor.java:163) [archiva-scheduler-repository-1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at org.apache.archiva.redback.components.taskqueue.execution.ThreadedTaskQueueExecutor$ExecutorRunnable$1.run(ThreadedTaskQueueExecutor.java:117) [spring-taskqueue-2.0.jar:?] at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:452) [?:1.6.0] at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:314) [?:1.6.0] at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:149) [?:1.6.0] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:897) [?:1.6.0] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:919) [?:1.6.0] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:772) [?:1.6.0] Caused by: javax.jcr.InvalidItemStateException: Unable to update a stale item: item.save() at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemSaveOperation.perform(ItemSaveOperation.java:262) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.session.SessionState.perform(SessionState.java:216) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemImpl.perform(ItemImpl.java:91) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemImpl.save(ItemImpl.java:329) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.session.SessionSaveOperation.perform(SessionSaveOperation.java:65) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.session.SessionState.perform(SessionState.java:216) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.SessionImpl.perform(SessionImpl.java:361) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.SessionImpl.save(SessionImpl.java:812) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.archiva.metadata.repository.jcr.JcrMetadataRepository.save(JcrMetadataRepository.java:1234) ~[metadata-store-jcr-1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] ... 27 more Caused by: org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.StaleItemStateException: 488246bf-f292-42a5-8538-a165ac4a4b6b/{}namespace has been modified externally at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.SharedItemStateManager$Update.begin(SharedItemStateManager.java:679) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.SharedItemStateManager.beginUpdate(SharedItemStateManager.java:1507) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.SharedItemStateManager.update(SharedItemStateManager.java:1537) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.LocalItemStateManager.update(LocalItemStateManager.java:400) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.XAItemStateManager.update(XAItemStateManager.java:354) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.LocalItemStateManager.update(LocalItemStateManager.java:375) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.SessionItemStateManager.update(SessionItemStateManager.java:275) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemSaveOperation.perform(ItemSaveOperation.java:258) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.session.SessionState.perform(SessionState.java:216) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemImpl.perform(ItemImpl.java:91) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemImpl.save(ItemImpl.java:329) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.session.SessionSaveOperation.perform(SessionSaveOperation.java:65) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.session.SessionState.perform(SessionState.java:216) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.SessionImpl.perform(SessionImpl.java:361) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.SessionImpl.save(SessionImpl.java:812) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.6.0.jar:2.6.0] at org.apache.archiva.metadata.repository.jcr.JcrMetadataRepository.save(JcrMetadataRepository.java:1234) ~[metadata-store-jcr-1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] ... 27 more Does this make sense to anyone? -Chris