That's a good suggestion. Easier to change the config file than to move backups back and forth which is what I did. Vera
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 6:49 PM Humphries, Graham (StateGrowth) < graham.humphr...@stategrowth.tas.gov.au> wrote: > Just to add my 2c worth > > > > Don’t install your data files into the > <myserver>/tomcat/webapps/geoserver/data directory. Host your data > elsewhere on the file system. > > > > You can change the value for GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR in the web.xml file in > <myserver>/tomcat/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF directory to point to this > location. > > > > Eg: > > <context-param> > > <param-name>GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR</param-name> > > <param-value>/opt/spatial/geoserver/data</param-value> > > </context-param> > > > > This way you can: > > · Install your new instance of Geoserver and check that it works. > > · Stop Geoserver > > · Change the web.xml file as outlined above > > · Start Geoserver. > > > > All your data should now be available > > > > *From:* Vera Green [mailto:vera.green...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, 13 June 2019 10:02 AM > *To:* Uwe Seher <uwe.se...@gmail.com> > *Cc:* GeoServer Mailing List List <geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > *Subject:* Re: [Geoserver-users] Geoserver does not start up again after > tomcat-restart > > > > I have had a similar issue migrating from a much older GeoServer version > to a new one and my solution was to NOT migrate the data folder in it's > entirety but instead to migrate only some components. I won't pretend to > understand the underlying issue but it fixed it for me. The components I > migrated resulted in me having all of the important stuff in the new > GeoServer version and a running GeoServer. I migrated the following in the > order specified: > > - workspaces > - security > - styles > > If you want to try this here are the steps: > > 1. shut down tomcat > 2. go to your freshly installed data folder > (....your_tomcat/webapps/geoserver/data) > 3. mv -rf fullpath_to_your_backup/workspaces/* workspaces/. > 4. mv -rf fullpath_to_your_backup/security/* security/. > 5. mv -rf fullpath_to_your_backup/styles/* styles/. > 6. cd .. > 7. chown -R tomcat:tomcat data > 8. restart tomcat > > Hope this helps, > Vera > > > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 9:03 AM Uwe Seher <uwe.se...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello group! > At the moment i have a hard problem. After a restart of my running tomcat8 > the geoserver-application (2.11) did not start up. some other applications > (geonetwork, jasper) run as good as before. After that i did an update to > 2.15.1, whicht starts up with a clean data-directory. When i copy my old > data-dir in the new installation, it does not start up again. > > in the catalina-log are the following lines, which i think descripbe the > error, but i am not able to understand what they want to tell me. Somewhere > else i found a reference to the encrytion used ( > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/GeoServer-doesn-t-Start-up-td5268309.html), > but i wanted to ask someone before i do something weird. The whole logfile > can be delievered also. > > > > So please, can someone tell me, what happened here? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Uwe Seher > > > > 05-Jun-2019 16:21:35.844 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] > org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkThreadLocalMapForLeaks > The web application [geoserver] created a ThreadLocal with key of type > [java.lang.ThreadLocal] (value [j > ava.lang.ThreadLocal@437d4b79]) and a value of type > [org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContextImpl] (value > [org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContextImpl@ffffffff: > Null authentication]) but failed to remov > e it when the web application was stopped. Threads are going to be renewed > over time to try and avoid a probable memory leak. > > 05-Jun-2019 16:21:35.858 WARNING [localhost-startStop-1] > java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$1.run Couldn't create user > preferences directory. User preferences are unusable. > > 05-Jun-2019 16:21:35.859 WARNING [localhost-startStop-1] > java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$1.run java.io.IOException: No such > file or directory > > 05-Jun-2019 16:21:35.875 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] > org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkThreadLocalMapForLeaks > The web application [geoserver] created a ThreadLocal with key of type > [java.lang.ThreadLocal] (value [j > ava.lang.ThreadLocal@286a76ba]) and a value of type > [org.geotools.referencing.operation.projection.TransverseMercator.Provider] > (value [PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"]]) but failed to remove it when > the web application was stopped. Thr > eads are going to be renewed over time to try and avoid a probable memory > leak. > > 05-Jun-2019 16:21:35.916 INFO [Finalizer] > org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkStateForResourceLoading > Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. > Could not load [org.geotools.metadata.i18n.Lo > ggings]. 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