[ome-users] Trouble accessing OMERO server on Mac

[Chris Allan]

On 8 Feb 2008, at 17:14, Glenn Murray wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Glenn.

>
> I shut down JBoss with /usr/local/jboss/bin//usr/local/jboss/bin/ 
> shutdown.sh
> and the tried to restart it with  /usr/local/jboss/bin/run.sh.  The  
> server
> log contains
>
> Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Connection refused.  
> Check
> that the hostname and port are correct and that the postmaster is
> accepting TCP/IP connections.
>
> so I'm guessing that run.sh doesn't start PostgreSQL.  So how do I  
> restart
> the database?  I can't find a pg_ctl anywhere.
>
> So, I tried reinstalling the server.  It immediately dumps out a  
> 10M log
> file in /usr/local/jboss/server/default/log/server.log (tail -f is not
> your friend here).  I did find
>
>   exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: No ClassLoaders  
> found for:
> ome.services.icy.fire.BasicSecurityWiring
> Caused by:
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: No ClassLoaders found for:  
> ome.services.icy.fire.BasicSecurityWiring
>          at org.jboss.mx.loading.LoadMgr3.beginLoadTask 
> (LoadMgr3.java:306)
>          at org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader.loadClassImpl 
> (RepositoryClassLoader.java:514)
>
> and
>
> org.jboss.resource.JBossResourceException: Could not create  
> connection; -
> nested throwable: (org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Connection  
> refused.
> Check that the hostname and port are correct and that the  
> postmaster is
> accepting TCP/IP connections.)
>          at  
> org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.local.LocalManagedConnectionFactory.cr 
> eateManagedConnection(LocalManagedConnectionFactory.java:179)
>          at  
> org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.InternalManagedConnectionPool.cre 
> ateConnectionEventListener(Intern
>
> Now looking at the WebAdmin log shows
>
>   [08-02-08 10:11:03,250]  WARN - Msg: Could not load properties  
> from class
> path resource [local.properties]: class path resource  
> [local.properties]
> cannot be opened because it does not exist Filename:
> PropertiesLoaderSupport.java; Method name:  loadProperties Line  
> number:
> 195
>   [08-02-08 10:11:03,260]  INFO - Msg: Pre-instantiating
>
> so perhaps there is more than one thing going wrong here?

PostgreSQL should be installed in /Library/PostgreSQL8, have a look  
for it there. The OMERO DMG installer is specifically designed for  
*vanilla* Mac OS X installs without PostgreSQL, etc. so if you do  
have PostgreSQL installed your best bet is the manual install.

Also, Mac OS X "services" (which are kind of like init scripts on  
Linux, BSD, and some of the proprietary UNIX distributions) are sent  
signals using "SystemStarter" so you can restart JBoss like so:

SystemStarter stop JBoss
... wait and confirm shutdown ...
SystemStarter start JBoss

And PostgreSQL like this:

SystemStarter restart PostgreSQL

>
> Thanks,
> Glenn

Ciao.

-Chris