Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 220055
Edge case situation where jbossas fails to start
Last modified: 2007-04-18 13:55:54 EDT
Description of problem: Small edge case that might deserve a knowledgebase entry. If the JBoss AS is run as root - via run.sh or jbossas-run - before the jbossas service is ever run, then the server.log and boot.log files will be owned by root. If the jbossas service is subsequently run, the startup will fail with an error of: jbossas startup has timed out, process still running The correct error cause (permission failure on server.log) is written to the console log. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): StacksV1.1 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. After install, start up jbossas as root, then stop 2. Then attempt to start jbossas service Actual results: Error "jbossas startup has timed out, process still running" is written to stdout. Actual file permission error is written to console log. Expected results: Additional info:
Change in direction - instead of KB article - needs a change to the startup script to report an error if its logs cannot be written.
The init script has been updated with a check to see if server.log is writable before starting the server. The fix will be in the next respin.
Fixed for the next respin.
In StacksV1-re20070110.0 (jbossas-4.0.5-1.el4s1.4) - the user sees this: [root@cheddar all]# service jbossas start Starting jbossas: [FAILED] Logfile /var/log/jbossas/all/server.log exists but not writable by jboss.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2007-0084.html