[opencms-dev] opencms installation. Importing modules in step 8 hangs

[Paul Warren]

Hi,

I have been trying to install opencms and am stuck with
importing modules always hanging.

This seems very similar/identical to the previous thread on 24th July 2006
<http://mail.opencms.org/pipermail/opencms-dev/2006q3/025069.html>[opencms-dev] 
Problem with opencms installation. Importing modules in step 8 hangs
and subsequently on 6th August 2006.

I am new to java and tomcat and opencms but do lots of linux sysadmin 
and can use mysql.

Following the website instructions (which were fairly minimalist)
I have installed the following:

opencms 6.2.2
apache-tomcat-5.5.17
jdk1.5.0_08
mysql-connector-java-3.0.17-ga
( all running under debian sarge)

The current status is opencms/setup appears to hang
during importing modules.

I have monitored what is happening using the opencms/WEF-INF/logs/setup.log
as suggested in the above threads and present some snippits below.

Repeated numerous times but the actual line varies.
The "Shutting down OpenCms" message seems to occur prematurely.
The actual position at which this occurs varies.


1407:   ( 43 / 185 ) Importing 
/system/workplace/resources/editors/htmlarea/images/ed_left_to_right.gif ...
1408:
1409:   Shutting down OpenCms, version 6.2.2 in web application "opencms"
1410:   o.k.
1411:   ( 44 / 185 ) Importing 
/system/workplace/resources/editors/htmlarea/images/ed_link.gif ... 
!!! Exception Error creating resource 
"/system/workplace/resources/editors/htmlarea/images/ed_link.gif" on 
path "/system/workplace/resources/editors/htmlarea/images/ed_link.gif".

Diabled "htmlarea" module during installation and tried again.
Still failed but this time in earlier module "files"
1120:   Writing export point 
/system/workplace/resources/list/multi_minus.png ... o.k.
1121:
1122:
1123:   Shutting down OpenCms, version 6.2.2 in web application "opencms"
1124:   Writing export point 
/system/workplace/resources/list/print.png ... o.k.
1125:   ------ ... finished writing the export points
1126:   java.lang.NullPointerException
1127:           at 
org.opencms.db.generic.CmsVfsDriver.readFile(CmsVfsDriver.java:1064)

And again for all modules
1370:   ( 6 / 185 ) Importing 
/system/workplace/editors/htmlarea/editor_configuration.xml ...
1371:
1372:   Shutting down OpenCms, version 6.2.2 in web application "opencms"
1373:   o.k.
1374:   ( 7 / 185 ) Importing 
/system/workplace/editors/htmlarea/htmlarea-ocms.js ... !!! Exception 
Error creating resource 
"/system/workplace/editors/htmlarea/htmlarea-ocms.js" on path 
"/system/workplace/editors/htmlarea/htmlarea-ocms.js".
1375:   org.opencms.file.CmsVfsException: Error creating resource 
"/system/workplace/editors/htmlarea/htmlarea-ocms.js" on path 
"/system/workplace/editors/htmlarea/htmlarea-ocms.js".

mysql does create databases and tables successfully,
and drops them when I run the setup again.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Especially keen to know whether standix at post.cz has overcome this already.

Paul