uPortal IRC Logs-2010-06-29

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[09:07:17 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> Did the person with CAS is Unavailable yesterday get it resolved?
[09:07:29 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> no
[09:07:29 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> that was jsumners I think
[09:08:03 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> I saw it today and I think (in my case) it's because CAS was looking in one database and uPortal was looking in another for a database user.
[09:09:41 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> I removed cas.properties when I went back to hsql--but since I didn't delete the CAS directory I'm not sure it got completely rebuilt
[09:10:16 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> the cas.properties in webapps is correct (points to hsql)
[09:12:22 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> I'll delete cas in webapps and let deploy-ear completely rebuild
[09:12:26 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> um, i didn't change anything there?
[09:13:28 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> Hmm. Did you change anything about the database uPortal is using?
[09:15:14 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> no
[09:16:27 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> OK--well, I'll certainly let you know whether or not I can make it go away in my instance
[09:27:11 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> thank you
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[10:23:52 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> I've done a lot of testing (up-2725) on my dlm problem--I've isolated it from 2 independent directions to MS SQL vs HSQL
[10:24:24 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> Moving forward from 3.2-patches, when I applied the MS SQL change, DLM broke.
[10:25:26 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> Moving backward from all local changes applied (including MS SQL) I switched from MS SQL to HSQL and it worked
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[12:37:07 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> JoeMoore: can you dig into the actual cause of the error?
[12:37:17 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> I have no access to MSSQL so I can't do anything about the issue
[12:46:48 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> You saw the reference to INIT_STRUCT_ID for UP_USER_LAYOUT in the attached log?
[12:46:55 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> right
[12:47:04 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> but I don't know why that only happens on mssql
[12:47:43 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> If it would help to plug some debugging statements into getUserLayout, I can sure try that
[12:48:13 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> perhaps ... but without a way to reproduce the issue locally I'm not going to have much luck addressing it (sad)
[12:48:54 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> not sure if any of the other uportal devs have access to mssql
[12:49:49 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> what about sqlserver-express?
[12:50:03 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> does it run on OSX or Ubunut?
[12:50:13 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> of course not
[12:50:25 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> but it runs in VirtualBox (wink)
[12:50:30 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> I'll schedule the issue for fix
[12:50:44 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> but I can't really promise much about when it gets looked into or addressed
[12:51:24 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> I think johns hopkins is MS SQL
[12:51:54 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> As far as stake holders go--not speaking to development
[12:52:34 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> so does this happen in 3.2.1?
[12:53:06 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> No, and not in 3.2.2 until after old svn # 48609
[12:53:42 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> ok
[12:54:13 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> have you done a svn diff from the 3.2.1 tag to the head of 3.2-patches to see if anything looks obvious?
[12:55:33 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> Not yet-but I'm starting even more narrow because 48609 was 3.2.2 already-I'll let you know if I see anything.
[12:55:52 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> Has hibernate been patched/changed versions?
[12:56:28 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> maybe? I'd have to go look at the svn log for pom.xml
[12:57:08 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> Sorry-a patch would break my rebuilds. It would need to be a different version-right? I can check that myself.
[13:02:21 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> yeah the first thing I'd look at would be a diff from the current head of 3.2-patches and the 3.2.1 release
[13:02:29 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> If I'm reading svn correctly, between 20370 and 20492 the layout/dlm branch was touched several times--UP2556, 2684,2686,2635 and 2672
[13:02:42 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> and see if you can see any differences that look suspicious
[13:03:59 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> Does it make sense that I'm first looking at layout/dlm?
[13:04:26 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> yeah
[13:08:16 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> this doesn't make any sense. in my uPortal VM the CAS server fails to load because of a java.net.UknownHostException when calling java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost() call. but i created another VM and installed CAS 3.4.2 and it works just fine
[13:08:34 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> and both VM were cloned from the same virtual disk
[13:08:57 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> that's weird
[13:09:11 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> we don't do anything special to tomcat or the JVM startup options in the quickstart
[13:09:31 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> if i tweak my hosts file a bit on the uPotal VM then CAS fails to load because it can't find a class
[13:09:37 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> Never mind last post from svn--I was looking at trunk instead of patches (sad)
[13:09:55 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> well, that is a difference. in my CAS VM i installed Tomcat 6.0 myself
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[13:10:26 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> other than that, i'm using the same Sun Java packages from Debian on both VMs
[13:10:28 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> if you're doing mods anyways you could try that for uPortal
[13:10:34 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> download the standard package
[13:10:41 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> modify build.properties
[13:10:49 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> and then do an 'ant initportal'
[13:11:19 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> there are a few things you do need to do to tomcat
[13:11:19 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPM31/01+Tomcat
[13:11:22 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> EricDalquist, i wanted to use the quick start package because i'm not really familiar with Java web servers to begin with
[13:11:29 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> but that shouldn't be affecting the host lookup
[13:11:32 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> yeah
[13:11:44 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> and that's why we put it out
[13:11:44 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> plain old Apache HTTPD i can do
[13:12:11 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> but there are 5 million files in different directories for all of these Java apps
[13:12:39 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> it's quite ridiculous
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[13:13:37 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> yeah, reducing the number of config files is one of our long-term tasks
[13:14:12 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> what version of CAS is shipped in the quick start?
[13:14:27 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> which version of the quickstart?
[13:14:32 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> 3.2.1
[13:15:10 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> 3.3.5
[13:15:24 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> 3.4.2 is what i have working in the other VM
[13:16:25 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> you can try changing it. I'm not sure if there have been any significant changes that would cause breakage
[13:16:44 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> to do that you'd edit uPortal/pom.xml
[13:16:47 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> and change the value of <cas-server.version>3.3.5</cas-server.version>
[13:16:56 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> then in the uPortal directory run "ant clean deploy-ear"
[13:17:28 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> that will rebuild and deploy uPortal and all the WARs that come with it from the included source
[13:19:07 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> that's another thing, if i use the ant.sh script as so `./ant.sh clean` i get "Target "clean" does not exist in the project "uPortal Quickstart"."
[13:19:13 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> same for deploy-ear
[13:19:46 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> you need to cd into the uPortal directory. the build file in the root of the quickstart is just for starting/stopping hsql & tomcat
[13:21:41 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> then you guys should include an ant script in that directory as well
[13:22:07 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> or make the top level one manage all the tasks
[13:22:08 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> ah yeah
[13:22:14 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> for if you don't have ant installed
[13:22:18 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> i do no
[13:22:21 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> i do not
[13:22:31 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> i'm relying on the one that is included in the quick start package
[13:22:38 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> you should be able to do ../ant.sh clean
[13:22:41 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> from the uPortal dir
[13:22:42 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> not as nice
[13:22:48 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> but it will work for now
[13:22:56 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> I'll add a note about addressing that
[13:22:56 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> indeed it does
[13:24:03 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> why is it downloading things?
[13:24:17 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> the joy of maven
[13:24:23 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> so the quickstart comes with the soruce
[13:24:29 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> and a deployed version
[13:24:41 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> it doesn't include any of the intermediate dependencies used when building
[13:25:03 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> so if you've never used Maven before it has to go out and fetch all of the dependencies it needs to actually do the build
[13:28:38 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> that is not even close to what i expected from "clean"
[13:29:04 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> yeah, maven is an interesting tool to get used to
[13:43:54 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> guess what? CAS 3.4.2 works
[13:47:31 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> yay
[13:47:36 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> that's good to know
[13:48:22 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> it certainly took long enough to figure out
[13:48:38 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> I wonder what changed on the cas side
[13:49:10 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> no idea
[14:12:14 CDT(-0500)] <jsumners> well this is fun. i can add locations to the weather portlet but not remove them
[14:50:36 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> neat
[14:51:48 CDT(-0500)] <athena> i think that may be fixed in the trunk
[16:16:55 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> I'm back-trying again to sort out uP 2725-I think I'm over my head
[16:18:30 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> I'm especially lost since the version numbers changed on svn between my working version and Friday's head 3.2-patches (20795)
[16:21:59 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> I've been looking at changes from 3.2.1GA vs 3.2-patches head and 3.2.1 GA vs 3.1-patches in the ...layout/dlm... directory
[16:23:28 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> Sorry--mis-typed, 3.1-patches reference didn't make sense
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[16:27:38 CDT(-0500)] <JoeMoore> Between 3-2-1-GA and 3-2-patches head, 3 classes in .../dlm/remoting... have changed. I'll see if they are different between my working and not working versions
[16:27:45 CDT(-0500)] <nachox> where can i ask CAS related questions?
[16:27:50 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> the cas email lists
[16:28:01 CDT(-0500)] <nachox> no irc channel?
[16:28:08 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> nope
[16:28:13 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> http://www.jasig.org/cas/mailing-lists
[16:28:20 CDT(-0500)] <nachox> thanks
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