Sounds like you're missing admin.jar... You can get rid of your transaction-log error by creating a persistence directory under the orion directory. Orion will then happily use that... I think some zip implementations have a thing about creating empty directories...
James Beeson wrote: > > I did not have the admin user deactivated (althought that was a good > tip- thanks!) > > When I use the command: > > java -jar admin.jar ormi://localhost:8080/ admin pswd -shutdown > > I get: > > Exception in thread "main" java.util.zip.ZipException: The system > cannot find the file specified > at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method) > at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source) > at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source) > at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source) > > And then Orion is left running. Could that be related to the error it > prints out when Orion starts (here it is): > > Warning: Error reading transaction-log file > (/C:/orion/persistence/transaction.state) for recovery: premature end > of file Forced or abrubt (crash etc) server shutdown detected, > starting recovery process > ... > Recovery completed, 0 connections committed and 0 rolled back... > Orion/1.5.2 initialized > > But then the app runs fine. I currently don't have a transaction.state > file. > > Why won't it let me shut down Orion? > Thanks > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > >