I think I may have sorted the problem. Would that have occurred if I was asking for a webpage without a context? i.e. just hitting some undefined area?
Thanks, Dave -- David Nillesen UNIX Systems Administrator Ph: + 61 2 6773 2112 -----Original Message----- From: Martin Gainty [mailto:mgai...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 18 June 2009 12:06 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Session replication fails on ReplicationValve invocation Hello Dave that line from ReplicationManager is getManager() Manager manager = request.getContext().getManager(); i would check to make sure the Manager node in /context.xml <!-- The contents of this file will be loaded for each web application --> <Context> <!-- Default set of monitored resources --> <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource> <!-- Uncomment this to disable session persistence across Tomcat restarts --> <Manager pathname="/" /> <!-- Uncomment this to enable Comet connection tacking (provides events on session expiration as well as webapp lifecycle) --> <!-- <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.CometConnectionManagerValve" /> --> </Context> all explained here http://www.scribd.com/doc/15490833/Tomcat-The-Definitive-Guide-by-OReilly-Media Cheers, Martin ______________________________________________ Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note de déni et de confidentialité Diese Nachricht ist vertraulich. 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Étant donné que les email peuvent facilement être sujets à la manipulation, nous ne pouvons accepter aucune responsabilité pour le contenu fourni. > From: dnill...@une.edu.au > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:24:20 +1000 > Subject: Session replication fails on ReplicationValve invocation > > Hi, > I'm currently trying to establish a cluster of tomcat 5.5.27 > servers to deploy sakai in, so I'm stuck on version 5.5. It is not an option > to upgrade to tomcat 6 which from all accounts has much better session > replication. > > I have cluster membership up and working via multicast and the two nodes add > each other as replication targets. When I try to establish a connection to > the server from my web browser to the default port of 8080 I get this neat > error in my catalina.out: > > ERROR: An exception or error occurred in the container during the request > processing (2009-06-17 16:43:49,545 > http-172.31.3.37-8080-Processor5_org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter) > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationValve.invoke(ReplicationValve.java:348) > > I'll put full errors and configs at the bottom of the email. The errors > occurs regardless of whether I access an empty/nonexistent context or the > servlet-examples which are currently installed. > > The servers are multi homed with 3 interfaces. Eth0 is the > primary public interface, eth1 is my iSCSI network and eth2 is the backend > cluster network. All neatly VLANd from each other in seperate subnets. > Multicast membership works, I can see the packets arriving via tcpdump and > the membership propagation is occurring. > I have tried binding the receivers to both public and private interfaces but > have had no luck. The receivers are up and appear to be functional. I can > telnet to them and when I enter gibberish into the console it tell me I am > sending malformed headers. > By using tcpdump and netstat I can see that neither tomcat instance is > originating a sender session to connect to the other servers receiver. > > I have tried fastsyncqueue and pooled style senders from the documentation. > Currently configured for pooled as it looked the simpler config to diagnose. > jvmRoute is configured via -D options passed to java as a lot of our configs > are done dynamically so as to have a single server.xml across the cluster > environments. We have a shared disk backend system to enable this. > > Any suggestions for diagnosis, help, fixes or otherwise would be very much > appreciated. > > Regards, > Dave > > Log file and startup: > INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in > production environments was not found on the java.library.path: > /apps/java/jdk1.5.0_19/jre/lib/amd64/server:/apps/java/jdk1.5.0_19/jre/lib/amd64:/apps/java/jdk1.5 > .0_19/jre/../lib/amd64 (2009-06-17 16:40:36,874 > main_org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener) > INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-172.31.3.37-8080 (2009-06-17 > 16:40:37,019 main_org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol) > INFO: Initialization processed in 1400 ms (2009-06-17 16:40:37,021 > main_org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina) > INFO: Set JAAS app name ENGINE (2009-06-17 16:40:37,114 > main_org.apache.catalina.realm.JAASRealm) > INFO: Starting service SERVICE (2009-06-17 16:40:37,126 > main_org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService) > INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.27 (2009-06-17 16:40:37,133 > main_org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine) > INFO: Cluster is about to start (2009-06-17 16:40:37,133 > main_org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster) > INFO: Start ClusterSender at cluster ENGINE:type=Cluster with name > ENGINE:type=ClusterSender (2009-06-17 16:40:37,430 > main_org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationTransmitter) > INFO: Setting cluster mcast soTimeout to 1000 (2009-06-17 16:40:37,440 > main_org.apache.catalina.cluster.mcast.McastService) > INFO: Sleeping for 4000 milliseconds to establish cluster membership > (2009-06-17 16:40:37,460 main_org.apache.catalina.cluster.mcast.McastService) > INFO: membership mbean registered (ENGINE:type=ClusterMembership) (2009-06-17 > 16:40:41,478 main_org.apache.catalina.cluster.mcast.McastService) > INFO: XML validation disabled (2009-06-17 16:40:41,504 > main_org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost) > INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized() (2009-06-17 16:40:43,318 > main_org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[ENGINE].[localhost].[/servlets-examples]) > INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized() (2009-06-17 16:40:43,318 > main_org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[ENGINE].[localhost].[/servlets-examples]) > INFO: JvmRouteBinderValve started (2009-06-17 16:40:43,391 > main_org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.JvmRouteBinderValve) > INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-172.31.3.37-8080 (2009-06-17 > 16:40:43,467 main_org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol) > INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /172.31.3.37:8009 (2009-06-17 16:40:43,640 > main_org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket) > INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/99 config=null (2009-06-17 16:40:43,648 > main_org.apache.jk.server.JkMain) > INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource (2009-06-17 > 16:40:44,411 main_org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader) > INFO: Server startup in 7485 ms (2009-06-17 16:40:44,506 > main_org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina) > INFO: Replication member > added:org.apache.catalina.cluster.mcast.McastMember[tcp://172.31.3.34:9015,SAKAINEW,172.31.3.34,9015, > alive=11] (2009-06-17 16:40:50,160 > Cluster-MembershipReceiver_org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster > ) > ERROR: An exception or error occurred in the container during the request > processing (2009-06-17 16:43:44,786 > http-172.31.3.37-8080-Processor4_org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter) > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationValve.invoke(ReplicationValve.java:348) > at > org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174) > at > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:875) > at > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) > ERROR: An exception or error occurred in the container during the request > processing (2009-06-17 16:43:49,545 > http-172.31.3.37-8080-Processor5_org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter) > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationValve.invoke(ReplicationValve.java:348) > at > org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174) > at > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:875) > at > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) > > server.xml > > <Server port="7992" shutdown="SHUTDOWN"> > > <!-- TOMCAT 5 and 5.5--> > <Listener > className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" SSLEngine="off" /> > <Listener > className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener" /> > <Listener > className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" /> > <Listener > className="org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreConfigLifecycleListener"/> > > <!-- JNDI --> > <GlobalNamingResources> > </GlobalNamingResources> > > <Service name="SERVICE"> > > <!-- HTTP connector --> > <Connector address="${ClusterIP}" port="8080" > maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" protocol="HTTP/1.1" > maxThreads="50" > minSpareThreads="5" maxSpareThreads="10" > enableLookups="false" > redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100" > connectionTimeout="0" > disableUploadTimeout="true" /> > > <!-- AJP connector --> > <Connector address="${ClusterIP}" port="8009" > protocol="AJP/1.3" > connectionTimeout="600000" > enableLookups="false" > redirectPort="8443" /> > > <!-The Engine --> > <Engine name="ENGINE" > defaultHost="localhost"> > <Host name="localhost" > > appBase="webapps" > > unpackWARs="true" > > autoDeploy="false" > > xmlValidation="false" > > xmlNamespaceAware="false"> > > <Alias>sakai-new.une.edu.au</Alias> > > <Alias>espresso.une.edu.au</Alias> > > <Alias>latte.une.edu.au</Alias> > </Host> > <Cluster > className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster" > > manager.expireSessionsOnShutdown="false" > > doClusterLog="true" > > clusterLogName="clusterlog"> > <Membership > > className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.mcast.McastService" > > mcastAddr="228.0.0.4" > > mcastClusterDomain="SAKAINEW" > > mcastPort="45564" > > mcastFrequency="1000" > > mcastDropTime="30000" > > recoveryCounter="10" > > recoveryEnabled="true" > > recoverySleepTime="5000" /> > <Receiver > > className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationListener" > > tcpListenAddress="${ClusterIP}" > > tcpListenPort="9015" > > tcpSelectorTimeout="100" > > tcpThreadCount="5"/> > > <Sender > > className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationTransmitter" > > replicationMode="pooled" > > autoConnect="true" > > maxPoolSocketLimit="10" > > keepAliveTimeout="60000" > > keepAliveMaxRequestCount="-1" > > waitForAck="true" /> > > <ClusterListener > className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ClusterSessionListener" /> > > <ClusterListener > className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.JvmRouteSessionIDBinderListener" > /> > <Valve > className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationValve" > > > filter=".*\.gif;.*\.js;.*\.css;.*\.png;.*\.jpeg;.*\.jpg;.*\.htm;.*\.html;.*\.txt;" > > primaryIndicator="true" /> > <Valve > className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.JvmRouteBinderValve" > > enabled="true" /> > </Cluster> > </Engine> > </Service> > </Server> > > > David Nillesen > UNIX Systems Administrator > University of New England > +61 2 6773 2112 > _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
