OK. I have not solved it but have done some research; 1) Installed clean Ubuntu 18.04.2 2) apt-get update / upgrade etc 3) Installed tomcat9 4) Copied 2.15 GeoServer.war to /var/lib/tomcat9/webapps GeoServer started 5) created /data, chown tomcat:tomcat /data/ 6) restarted tomcat9, and got the original error “which is not writeable” 7) Installed GeoServer 2.14 8) It won’t run under java 11 I assume 9) Installed OpenJDK 1.8.0_191 10) Installed tomcat8 11) Installed GeoServer.war 12) Edited web.xml to set DATA_DIR 13) GeoServer started and used /data as DATA dir.
I am not sure where to look now but if anybody has things they want me to look at I have some spare time. I may try tomcat8/Java 8 on Ubuntu 19.04 later. Russ > On 26 Apr 2019, at 08:42, Russ Hore <r...@russ-hore.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi Benoit, > > Good suggestion, (and I might be missing something obvious), but I am using > an absolute path. > > /data exists under the root filesystem > > This is the way I have set up GeoServer before so I can easily upgrade. Maybe > something has changed between Ubuntu 18 & 19 > > I am about to do a clean install of Ubuntu 18 so will ley the list know. > > Russ >> On 26 Apr 2019, at 08:18, DEGRÈVE Benoît <b.degr...@issep.be >> <mailto:b.degr...@issep.be>> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Russ, I would like to help but I may be wrong : have you already tried an >> absolute path instead ? >> >> I say that because I’ve recently change my web.xml to direct Geoserver to >> save cached tiles in a geoserver (+tomcat) subdirectory and I used an >> absolute path, and it works without changing anything else. >> >> And if you want to use a relative path, maybe you should use « ./data/ » >> instead of « /data/ » >> >> Hope it helps, >> >> Benoît DEGRÈVE >> Risques sous-sols et cartographie >> >> Bachelier en gestion de données et cartographie >> >> >> >> De : Russ Hore [mailto:r...@russ-hore.co.uk <mailto:r...@russ-hore.co.uk>] >> Envoyé : jeudi 25 avril 2019 18:52 >> À : Ian Turton >> Cc : geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Objet : Re: [Geoserver-users] /data directory not writeable >> >> # ls -ld /data >> drwxrwxrwx 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 Apr 25 15:10 /data >> >> >> For info., >> >> # ps -efl |grep tomcat >> 4 S tomcat 1232 1 49 80 0 - 1716271 futex_ 16:49 ? 00:00:46 >> /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/bin/java >> -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcat9/conf/logging.properties >> -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager >> -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseG1GC -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048 >> -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=org.apache.catalina.webresources >> -Dorg.apache.catalina.security.SecurityListener.UMASK=0027 >> -DGEOSERVER_DATA_DIR=/data -Dignore.endorsed.dirs= -classpath >> /usr/share/tomcat9/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat9/bin/tomcat-juli.jar >> -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat9 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat9 >> -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start >> >> Russ >> >> >> On 25 Apr 2019, at 17:22, Ian Turton <ijtur...@gmail.com >> <mailto:ijtur...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> can you paste the result of "ls -ld /data" in here, I suspect that is isn't >> what you think it is >> >> Ian >> >> On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 17:05, Russ Hore <r...@russ-hore.co.uk >> <mailto:r...@russ-hore.co.uk>> wrote: >> I have just done a clean installation of Ubuntu 19.04, installed Tomcat 9, >> installed OpenJDK 11 and installed GS 2.15 >> >> I have a folder called /data to which I point GeoServer by editing web.xml >> >> <context-param> >> <param-name>GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR</param-name> >> <param-value>/data/</param-value> >> </context-param> >> >> Now when I start GeoServer I get an error in /var/log/syslog saying /data is >> not writeable ! >> >> Apr 25 15:14:05 hostname tomcat9[13480]: 25 Apr 15:14:05 ERROR >> [storage.DefaultStorageFinder] - Found Servlet context parameter >> GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR set to /data/ , which is not writeable >> >> Tomcat is running as user ‘tomcat’. The /data folder is owned by tomcat with >> permissions 777 (I know that is not the best but I am trying to get things >> working) >> >> I have tried setting the data folder in her setclasspath.sh >> >> CATALINA_OPTS="-DGEOSERVER_DATA_DIR=/data" >> >> But I get the same error. >> >> Has anybody else seen this? >> >> Russ >> _______________________________________________ >> Geoserver-users mailing list >> >> Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this >> list: >> - Earning your support instead of buying it, but Ian Turton: >> http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/ >> <http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/> >> - The GeoServer user list posting guidelines: >> http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html >> <http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html> >> >> If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: >> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer >> >> <https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer> >> >> >> Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users >> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users> >> >> >> -- >> Ian Turton > > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > > Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this > list: > - Earning your support instead of buying it, but Ian Turton: > http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/ > - The GeoServer user list posting guidelines: > http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html > > If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: > https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer > > > Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
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