On Friday 02 April 2010 17:08:48 Christian Funder Sommerlund wrote:
> I agree. But if you really want a fix, you should seriously consider 
> trashing this fricking Java wrapper we are using. As far as I can see, 
> it's the cause of almost all of these failures.
> 
> To add another failure to the list: One of those you just posted about 
> on the bug tracker seems to be caused by the wrapper failing to handle a 
> Java upgrade (note that his installation worked just fine before 
> upgrading Java).

This should be solved by the recent change in the location of the java binary?

If that doesn't solve the problem I suggest you implement your own java 
detection code and write it to the wrapper.conf before starting it. The 
detection code can be reused if and when we get rid of the wrapper.

More broadly the question is should we get rid of the wrapper. I dunno whether 
the service errors happened on the old installer, it was some time ago 
(actually iirc they did happen occasionally I dunno how often). If you're sure 
it's a problem with the wrapper, I don't have a problem with rewriting the 
installer not to use it. However we are likely to continue to use it on other 
platforms. The watchdog (including both startup watchdog and online watchdog) 
is useful, the auto-restart is essential but trivial, Java autodetection is 
essential (but only if it works). YAJSW is just too heavyweight.

I also have some concern about the interaction between running as a service and 
the wrapper - would it be more reliable to not run as a service but still use 
the wrapper, and how much work would it be from AHK to run as a service without 
using the wrapper? If you have time to rewrite it to abolish both that's fine 
by me though - we can solve the issue of servers later on, and running as a 
single user has its advantages, most notably access to My Downloads etc.
> 
> These failures are more or less out of my hands... I might be able to 
> work around some of them if I had access to a failing system, but so far 
> I have only managed to get a hold of a single person who has been kind 
> enough to send me some registry access log dumps I need to analyze when 
> I get the time.

Do you have time to deal with all this? I don't really have time to learn AHK 
properly and so on, but getting a copy of Windows 7 to run in a VirtualBox OSE 
VM isn't out of the question.
> 
> - Zero3
> 
> Matthew Toseland skrev:
> > And another one... We really need a fix!
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Emne:
> > [freenet-support] Error message: Free Start was unable to control the 
> > Freenet system service
> > Fra:
> > Brendan <inappropriateresponses at gmail.com>
> > Dato:
> > Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:09:24 +0000
> > Til:
> > support at freenetproject.org
> > 
> > Til:
> > support at freenetproject.org
> > 
> > 
> > Reason: Service did not respond to signal.
> > 
> > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
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