I am a first time james user and am attempting to install on Ubuntu 24, I think.
I have done my best with web searches and using the install guide and now have
arrived at a place I need help. I have installed james in /opt/james and java
has a symlink at /opt/java. Here is my james directory:
thehl@syrfedout4:/opt/james$ ls -l
total 124
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 16 13:13 conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 25 22:32 extensions-jars
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17262 Sep 25 22:31 james-server-jpa-app.jar
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20480 Sep 25 22:32 james-server-jpa-app.lib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65533 Apr 14 2025 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4409 Jul 24 11:52 README.adoc
drwxr-xr-x 4 james james 4096 Oct 16 13:05 var
Thehl@syrfedout4:/opt/james$
Here is my service definition:
thehl@syrfedout4:/opt/james$ sudo cat /etc/systemd/system/james.service
[Unit]
Description=James service
After=network.target
[Service]
User=james
Group=james
WorkingDirectory=/opt/james
ExecStart=/opt/java/bin/java
-javaagent:/opt/james/james-server-jpa-app.lib/openjpa-4.1.1.jar \
-Dworking.directory=/opt/james \
-Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048 \
-Dlogback.configurationFile=/opt/james/onf/logback.xml \
-jar /opt/james/james-server-jpa-app.jar
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
So I used sysemctl to start the service and then checked the status:
thehl@syrfedout4:/opt/james$ sudo systemctl status james.service
× james.service - James service
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/james.service; disabled; preset:
enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2025-10-16 14:04:42 UTC;
24min ago
Duration: 5ms
Process: 2982 ExecStart=/opt/java/bin/java
-javaagent:/opt/james/james-server-jpa-app.lib/openjpa-4.1.1.jar
-Dworking.directory=/opt/james -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySi>
Main PID: 2982 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 4ms
Oct 16 14:04:42 syrfedout4 systemd[1]: Started james.service - James service.
Oct 16 14:04:42 syrfedout4 java[2982]: Error opening zip file or JAR manifest
missing : /opt/james/james-server-jpa-app.lib/openjpa-4.1.1.jar
Oct 16 14:04:42 syrfedout4 java[2982]: Error occurred during initialization of
VM
Oct 16 14:04:42 syrfedout4 java[2982]: agent library failed Agent_OnLoad:
instrument
Oct 16 14:04:42 syrfedout4 systemd[1]: james.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 16 14:04:42 syrfedout4 systemd[1]: james.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Thehl@syrfedout4:/opt/james$
So since the error pointed to openjpa-4.1.1.jar I had a look.
thehl@syrfedout4:/opt/james$ ls -l james-server-jpa-app.lib/openjpa-4.1.1.jar
-rw------- 1 root root 4902846 May 15 16:11
james-server-jpa-app.lib/openjpa-4.1.1.jar
Thehl@syrfedout4:/opt/james$
I then ran unzip -l against that jar file and got a bunch of files but don't
see the manifest.
79 2025-03-15 11:45 META-INF/org.apache.openjpa.revision.properties
0 2025-03-15 11:45 META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-lib/
7074 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-lib/pom.xml
64 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-lib/pom.properties
0 2025-03-15 11:45 META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-kernel/
7259 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-kernel/pom.xml
67 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-kernel/pom.properties
0 2025-03-15 11:45 META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-jdbc/
3117 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-jdbc/pom.xml
65 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-jdbc/pom.properties
0 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-persistence/
2551 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-persistence/pom.xml
72 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-persistence/pom.properties
0 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/
24048 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/pom.xml
77 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/pom.properties
0 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-xmlstore/
5979 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-xmlstore/pom.xml
69 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-xmlstore/pom.properties
0 2025-03-15 11:45 META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-slice/
6563 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-slice/pom.xml
66 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/maven/org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-slice/pom.properties
883 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/services/org.apache.openjpa.kernel.exps.ExpressionParser
55 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/services/jakarta.persistence.spi.PersistenceProvider
57 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/services/javax.annotation.processing.Processor
1005 2025-03-15 11:45
META-INF/services/org.apache.openjpa.lib.conf.ProductDerivation
Would like counsel on how to proceed?
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