[ome-users] Omero not starting -- icegridnode: failure occurred in daemon

[Alex Sossick]

Thanks Josh

I had probably as you say caused the problem be a couple of tries at
starting the server.

Anyway

rm -rf  var/registry/

Fixed the problem

Thanks

Alex



josh.moore at gmx.de at josh.moore at gmx.de wrote on 22/5/09 16:04:

> 
> Alex Sossick writes:
>> Dear All
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
>> I just restarted the Mac Xserver my omero is running on, before the restart
>> everything was fine, and now when I try " bin/omero admin start"
>> I get an error.
> ...
>> service caught unhandled Ice exception:
>> MapDb.cpp:350: Freeze::DatabaseException:
>> Error while opening Db "applications": Db::open: Invalid argument
>> 
>> This is the first time I have restarted the server since installing
>> Omero, does anyone have any ideas why its not working
> 
> Oh dear. Ice has said that it's known the Ice database** can become
> corrupted:
> 
>   
> http://www.zeroc.com/forums/bug-reports/4237-sporadic-freeze-errors-concurrent
> -icegridnode-access.html
> 
> But I had hoped that we had protected our users from it. Are you
> starting/stoppping OMERO via launchd, cron, or something similar? This
> should only happen on concurrent access (multiple starts/stops at the
> same time), so anything you can think of along those lines would be
> really helpful.
> 
> Now, how to get around it: The Ice database** is stored under
> OMERO_HOME/var/registry. You can either delete var/registry or the
> entire var directory if you don't need your log files. When you run
> "bin/omero admin start", they will be re-created, and all should be
> fine.
> 
> Best wishes,
> ~Josh.
> 
> ** Please Note: the "Ice database" has nothing to do with your data
> and solely represents Ice's internal representation of what servers
> you have running.
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