[opencms-dev] Open 7.0.3 setup install hanging on agree to terms step

[Arash Kaffamanesh]

Seth Gottlieb wrote:
> Hello OpenCms'ers
>
> I am trying to install OpenCms 7.0.3 on my laptop (Mac OSX Leopard,
> Tomcat 5, Java 1.5.0_13, MySQL 5).  For some reason, the application
> seems to hang after I accept the terms and click continue.  The only
> clue that I was able to find is that there were a bunch of entries in
> catalina.out saying "log4j:ERROR Error occured while converting date."
>  Then I get a big Java error:
>
> Shutting down OpenCms, version 7.0.3 in web application "null"
> Shutdown completed, total uptime was 00:14:18.
>
> log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: opencms_init.log (Permission denied)
>
> I am running Tomcat as root (sudo).
>
> I don't know where OpenCms is trying to put this file.  I tried to fix
> by doing a chmod -R a+w on the tomcat directory but that did no seem
> to work.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Seth
>
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Hi Seth,

It seems OpenCms is trying to create opencms_init.log under 
/Users/<yourMACname>/Tomcat/webapps/opencms/WEB-INF/log ???, check the 
owner and permissions there.
In general it is a bad idea to run tomcat as root wit sudo on mac ;o)
anyway, what happens if you run tomcat under your own account?
Tip: put tomcat under /Users/<yourMACname>/Tomcat5.5.x, and run it with 
your own account, it shall work (at least it works here on tiger with 
the same environment as yours).

HTH,
Kind Regards,
Arash