Re: Error deploying roller.war tomcat7

[Glen Mazza]

As the installation guide says, :), you need the JARs, but you don't 
need to configure email in your roller-custom.properties.  The JARs 
alone do not enable email, and its disabled if not configured.

Happy to see your installation working.
Glen

On 11/30/2013 10:52 AM, Gaurav wrote:
Thanks a lot Glen :)
At last everything is setup. Also I want to know if we can disable the 
email configuration as I missed this just for a while, as I was 
thinking to skip this for starting, and this thing let me down. Also, 
there are 3 log files which I have to look, unfortunately I missed one 
log file in which at this error was coming.


On Saturday 30 November 2013 09:10 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
As the installation guide says, you need to include the mail.jar and 
JDBC driver in your tomcat_home/lib folder.

Glen

On 11/30/2013 10:27 AM, Gaurav wrote:
Hello,

Another log file in tomcat7/logs might be anyone can help me seeing 
this issues.

"Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat7/common/classes], exists: 
[false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false] "
This problem is solved by making symlinks

sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/common common
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/server server
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/shared shared

localhost.log

Nov 30, 2013 8:48:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath
Nov 30, 2013 8:48:49 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
Nov 30, 2013 8:48:51 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext 
listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener 
instance of class org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.RollerContext
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/mail/Session
    at 
org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.MailProvider.<init>(MailProvider.java:93)
    at 
org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.startup.WebloggerStartup.prepare(WebloggerStartup.java:177)
    at 
org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.RollerContext.contextInitialized(RollerContext.java:137)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4939)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5434)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:976)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1653)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.mail.Session
    at 
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1714)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559)
    ... 17 more
Nov 30, 2013 8:48:51 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext 
listenerStop
SEVERE: Exception sending context destroyed event to listener 
instance of class org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.RollerContext
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Roller Weblogger has not been 
bootstrapped yet
    at 
org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.WebloggerFactory.getWeblogger(WebloggerFactory.java:64)
    at 
org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.RollerContext.contextDestroyed(RollerContext.java:185)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStop(StandardContext.java:4980)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.stopInternal(StandardContext.java:5626)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.stop(LifecycleBase.java:232)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:160)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:976)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1653)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)


Thanks
Gaurav


On Saturday 30 November 2013 06:11 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
I believe that's the catalina.out you've output below, correct? 
When you see the error message: "SEVERE: Error listenerStart" in 
the catalina.out as below, that normally means to check the 
roller.log file to see the specific error causing that.

Also, the "Problem with directory 
[/usr/share/tomcat7/common/classes], exists: [false], isDirectory: 
[false], canRead: [false] " messages look bad but unsure if its 
related to your problem.

Glen

On 11/30/2013 07:27 AM, Gaurav wrote:
Hello,

The file permission issues is solved, as its really strange to see 
that the /var/lib/tomcat7 user permission was root:root
I have changed it to tomcat7 and that error had gone. Also I have 
created new db as mentioned in doc, as I did not grant permission 
to a new user like scott in you case. Still the application is 
unable to start.

Below are logs


Roller Weblogger: Successfully loaded custom properties file from 
classpath
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:47 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext 
startInternal
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:47 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext 
startInternal
SEVERE: Context [/roller] startup failed due to previous errors
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:50 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol pause
INFO: Pausing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-9080"]
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService 
stopInternal
INFO: Stopping service Catalina
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:50 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol stop
INFO: Stopping ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-9080"]
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:50 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol destroy
INFO: Destroying ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-9080"]
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:51 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory 
[/usr/share/tomcat7/common/classes], exists: [false], isDirectory: 
[false], canRead: [false]
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:51 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat7/common], 
exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:52 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory 
[/usr/share/tomcat7/server/classes], exists: [false], isDirectory: 
[false], canRead: [false]
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:52 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat7/server], 
exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:52 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory 
[/usr/share/tomcat7/shared/classes], exists: [false], isDirectory: 
[false], canRead: [false]
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:52 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat7/shared], 
exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:53 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-9080"]
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:53 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1209 ms
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:53 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService 
startInternal
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:53 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine 
startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.42
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:53 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig 
deployDescriptor
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor 
/etc/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost/host-manager.xml
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:54 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig 
deployDescriptor
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor 
/etc/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:54 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig 
deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive 
/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/roller.war
Nov 30, 2013 5:51:54 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.SetContextPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetContextPropertiesRule]{Context} Setting property 
'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.
Nov 30, 2013 5:52:02 PM org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.ConnectionPool 
init
WARNING: maxIdle is smaller than minIdle, setting maxIdle to: 10
Roller Weblogger: Successfully loaded custom properties file from 
classpath
Nov 30, 2013 5:52:04 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext 
startInternal
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
Nov 30, 2013 5:52:04 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext 
startInternal
SEVERE: Context [/roller] startup failed due to previous errors
Nov 30, 2013 5:52:04 PM 
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesThreads
SEVERE: The web application [/roller] appears to have started a 
thread named [MySQL Statement Cancellation Timer] but has failed 
to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak.
Nov 30, 2013 5:52:04 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig 
deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory 
/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT
Nov 30, 2013 5:52:05 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-9080"]
Nov 30, 2013 5:52:05 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 11807 ms


Thanks
Gaurav


On Saturday 30 November 2013 05:38 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
Oh, I missed this error message in your stack below: "log4j:ERROR 
Either File or DatePattern options are not set for appender 
[roller-startup]. "

Run the following command from the exploded WAR directory of 
Tomcat, do you get the same results as me below?

gmazza@gmazza-work:/media/work1/myapps/apache-tomcat-7.0.29/webapps/roller$ 
grep -r "roller-startup" .

./WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties:log4j.rootLogger=ERROR, 
roller-startup
./WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties:log4j.appender.roller-startup=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender 

./WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties:log4j.appender.roller-startup.File=roller-startup.log 

./WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties:log4j.appender.roller-startup.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout 

./WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties:log4j.appender.roller-startup.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p 
%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} %C{1}:%M - %m%n

This log4j.properties file is located in app/src/main/resources 
of the 5.1-SNAPSHOT build.

Also, it looks like you have a couple of config errors that 
should be fixed:

WARNING: [SetContextPropertiesRule]{Context} Setting property 
'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.
Nov 30, 2013 5:10:04 PM 
org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.ConnectionPool init
WARNING: maxIdle is smaller than minIdle, setting maxIdle to: 10

Perhaps it's trying to write some error to roller-startup.log as 
a result of these warnings, and then raising the error that it 
can't get to that file.

BTW, as shown in the install guide, your mysql (JDBC) username 
shouldn't be "root" but the new MySQL account name you created 
for the Roller schema (I used scott/tiger in the install guide as 
an example.)

HTH,
Glen

On 11/30/2013 06:43 AM, Gaurav wrote:
Hello,

I have removed the log4j.appender.roller-startup.File and still 
its not working and giving the same error.
I am using Ubuntu 13.10, jdk 1.7, tomcat7 and have started the 
tomcat from root. I have done everything for this, but still 
getting below errors, I adding full stacktrace for both 
roller.lo and catalina.out

roller.log

INFO  2013-11-30 17:10:07,262 DatabaseProvider:successMessage - 
SUCCESS: Got parameters. Using configuration type JDBC_PROPERTIES
INFO  2013-11-30 17:10:07,266 DatabaseProvider:successMessage - 
-- Using JDBC driver class: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
INFO  2013-11-30 17:10:07,267 DatabaseProvider:successMessage - 
-- Using JDBC connection URL: 
jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/rollerdb?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8&mysqlEncoding=utf8
INFO  2013-11-30 17:10:07,267 DatabaseProvider:successMessage - 
-- Using JDBC username: root
INFO  2013-11-30 17:10:07,267 DatabaseProvider:successMessage - 
-- Using JDBC password: [hidden]
INFO  2013-11-30 17:10:07,268 DatabaseProvider:successMessage - 
SUCCESS: loaded JDBC driver class [com.mysql.jdbc.Driver]

Catalina.out (on start of tomcat)

 Nov 30, 2013 5:09:55 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory 
[/usr/share/tomcat7/common/classes], exists: [false], 
isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Nov 30, 2013 5:09:55 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat7/common], 
exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Nov 30, 2013 5:09:55 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory 
[/usr/share/tomcat7/server/classes], exists: [false], 
isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Nov 30, 2013 5:09:55 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat7/server], 
exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Nov 30, 2013 5:09:55 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory 
[/usr/share/tomcat7/shared/classes], exists: [false], 
isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Nov 30, 2013 5:09:55 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat7/shared], 
exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Nov 30, 2013 5:09:56 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-9080"]
Nov 30, 2013 5:09:56 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1213 ms
Nov 30, 2013 5:09:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService 
startInternal
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Nov 30, 2013 5:09:56 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine 
startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.42
Nov 30, 2013 5:09:56 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig 
deployDescriptor
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor 
/etc/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost/host-manager.xml
Nov 30, 2013 5:09:57 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig 
deployDescriptor
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor 
/etc/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml
Nov 30, 2013 5:09:57 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig 
deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive 
/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/roller.war
Nov 30, 2013 5:09:57 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.SetContextPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetContextPropertiesRule]{Context} Setting property 
'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.
Nov 30, 2013 5:10:04 PM 
org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.ConnectionPool init
WARNING: maxIdle is smaller than minIdle, setting maxIdle to: 10
log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.
java.io.FileNotFoundException: roller-startup.log (Permission 
denied)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:192)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:116)
    at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:294)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.activateOptions(FileAppender.java:165) 

    at 
org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender.activateOptions(DailyRollingFileAppender.java:223)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:307) 

    at 
org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:172)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:104)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:842)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:768)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:648)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:514)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:580)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:526)
    at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:127)
    at org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:104)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.getLogger(Log4JLogger.java:283)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.<init>(Log4JLogger.java:108)
    at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native 
Method)
    at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at 
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.createLogFromClass(LogFactoryImpl.java:1040)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.discoverLogImplementation(LogFactoryImpl.java:782)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.newInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:601)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:333)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:307)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:645)
    at 
org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.RollerSession.<clinit>(RollerSession.java:53)
    at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native 
Method)
    at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at 
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:138)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4854)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5434)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) 

    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) 

    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633) 

    at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:976) 

    at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1653)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441) 

    at 
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
log4j:ERROR Either File or DatePattern options are not set for 
appender [roller-startup].
Roller Weblogger: Successfully loaded custom properties file 
from classpath
Nov 30, 2013 5:10:07 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext 
startInternal
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
Nov 30, 2013 5:10:07 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext 
startInternal
SEVERE: Context [/roller] startup failed due to previous errors
Nov 30, 2013 5:10:07 PM 
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesThreads
SEVERE: The web application [/roller] appears to have started a 
thread named [MySQL Statement Cancellation Timer] but has failed 
to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak.
Nov 30, 2013 5:10:07 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig 
deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory 
/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT
Nov 30, 2013 5:10:07 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-9080"]
Nov 30, 2013 5:10:07 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 11459 ms






On Saturday 30 November 2013 05:00 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
That's the version of the document I was referring to -- the 
latest from SVN trunk -- we have a link to the same on our 
Roller home page.

I work with Tomcat 7 w/5-1 SNAPSHOT on Ubuntu at home, and my 
upcoming blog at http://web-gmazza.rhcloud.com/blog/ presently 
uses Tomcat 7 also.

I would certainly remove roller-startup.log from your 
roller-custom.properties file--the permission problem could be 
two threads trying to write to that same file simultaneously 
due to your configuration of it in that file. 
roller-startup.log is the (usually always empty) file created 
by Roller before it reads your roller-custom.properties file 
(and uses the usual roller.log logging file configured there), 
it's meant to record any errors that occur before that 
beginning step only, so it's nonsensical to include it in the 
config file.  (I'm not sure we really need roller-startup.log 
anymore, if Roller fries before it even gets to the config file 
I would think system logging should be the place for users to go.)

Glen


On 11/30/2013 06:10 AM, Gaurav wrote:
Hello,

I have started the tomcat server with root user, and I think 
root have full permission to read/write anywhere in the system.
Also, Can you provide me the SVN link of the documentation, As 
the one I downloaded is lastest from SVN last updated in 
august for version 5.1.0 
(http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/roller/trunk/docs/roller-install-guide.odt?revision=1515262&view=co) 


Thanks
Gaurav


On Saturday 30 November 2013 04:34 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
Hi Gaurav, "java.io.FileNotFoundException: roller-startup.log 
(Permission denied)" suggests the user running Tomcat on the 
server doesn't have read/write permission to create 
"roller-startup.log".  That's the first file created by 
Roller upon app startup (it usually remains empty, as 
subsequent logging goes to a logging file as configured in 
your roller-custom.properties.)  I would try to run on a 
Tomcat on your machine for which you have full read/write 
permissions first.

Incidentally, the latest install guide from SVN (in your docs 
folder for the 5.1 download) will have full, updated 
instructions for running on Tomcat, GlassFish and JBoss.

Glen

On 11/30/2013 05:54 AM, Gaurav wrote:
Hello,

I have build the latest roller-5.1-SNAPSHOT successfully and 
have tried deploying it to tomcat7 and jetty.

Before this also, during build of code I got some problem 
like we must have maven version more greater than 3.0.5. 
After build I tried running on jetty server, but then again 
jetty gave error due to jdk version. As jdk 1.7 is needed 
for that. But still I was not able to successfully deploy on 
jetty as did not able to find and documentation for setting 
up of database and other things. jetty was successfully 
started but when I mount roller app it gave me 404.

At last I switched to tomcat7, then again I have followed 
the roller installation guide for tomcat, but still having 
this error.

I have added this line 
(*log4j.appender.roller-startup.File=/var/log/tomcat7/roller-startup.log*) 
in roller-custom.properties but still the same issue.

Nov 30, 2013 4:13:42 PM 
org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.ConnectionPool init
WARNING: maxIdle is smaller than minIdle, setting maxIdle 
to: 10
log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.
java.io.FileNotFoundException: roller-startup.log 
(Permission denied)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method)
    at 
java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:192)
    at 
java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:116)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:294)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.activateOptions(FileAppender.java:165) 

    at 
org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender.activateOptions(DailyRollingFileAppender.java:223)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:307) 

    at 
org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:172)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:104)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:842)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:768)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:648)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:514)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:580)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:526)
    at 
org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:127)
    at org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:104)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.getLogger(Log4JLogger.java:283)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.<init>(Log4JLogger.java:108)
    at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) 

    at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at 
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.createLogFromClass(LogFactoryImpl.java:1040)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.discoverLogImplementation(LogFactoryImpl.java:782)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.newInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:601)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:333)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:307)
    at 
org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:645) 

    at 
org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.RollerSession.<clinit>(RollerSession.java:53)
    at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) 

    at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at 
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:138)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4854)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5434)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) 

    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) 

    at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633) 

    at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:976) 

    at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1653)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441) 

    at 
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) 

    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
log4j:ERROR Either File or DatePattern options are not set 
for appender [roller-startup].
Roller Weblogger: Successfully loaded custom properties file 
from classpath
Nov 30, 2013 4:13:46 PM 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
Nov 30, 2013 4:13:46 PM 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Context [/roller] startup failed due to previous errors
Nov 30, 2013 4:13:46 PM 
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader 
clearReferencesThreads
SEVERE: The web application [/roller] appears to have 
started a thread named [MySQL Statement Cancellation Timer] 
but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a 
memory leak.
Nov 30, 2013 4:13:46 PM 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory 
/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT
Nov 30, 2013 4:13:46 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol 
start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-9080"]
Nov 30, 2013 4:13:46 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina 
start
INFO: Server startup in 17588 ms

Please help, really spend full day till now on this.