Re: [Exist-open] exist-DB on Ubuntu 12.04

[Michael C. <mic...@as...>]

I checked again and can confirm that when I launch from the desktop icon the
server is in fact running - it is available when I navigate to
localhost:8080 as you suggest. A launcher icon does appear in whatever
Ubuntu calls the thing that isn't the system tray ;-) . 
However, as I mentioned in my original mail, and error dialog box is
displayed. When I click "OK" to close the dialog box, the launcher icon
disappears and the server stops - it is no longer contactable at
localhost:8080.

The exact text of the error dialog box is:

"An error occurred during startup. Please check the logs"

The dialog box has two buttons: "View log" (which doesn't seem to do
anything) and "OK".

As I say, as soon as I click OK eXist shuts down.


When I try running the launcher directly with the command 

java -Xmx1024 -jar start.jar org.exist.launcher.Launcher

as Wolfgang suggests, I get the following error: 

Error occurred during initialization of VM
Too small initial heap


When I try running the bin/startup.sh script I get the following errors:

bin/startup.sh: 41: bin/startup.sh: source: not found
bin/startup.sh: 42: bin/startup.sh: source: not found
bin/startup.sh: 43: bin/startup.sh: source: not found
bin/startup.sh: 45: bin/startup.sh: get_opts: not found
bin/startup.sh: 47: bin/startup.sh: check_exist_home: not found
bin/startup.sh: 49: bin/startup.sh: set_exist_options: not found
bin/startup.sh: 50: bin/startup.sh: set_jetty_home: not found
bin/startup.sh: 52: bin/startup.sh: check_java_home: not found
bin/startup.sh: 55: bin/startup.sh: set_java_options: not found
bin/startup.sh: 58: bin/startup.sh: set_locale_lang: not found
bin/startup.sh: 61: bin/startup.sh: check_jmx_status: not found
bin/startup.sh: 63: bin/startup.sh: Bad substitution


/Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: wol...@ex... [mailto:wol...@ex...] 
Sent: 22 April 2013 15:34
To: Dannes Wessels
Cc: Michael Cullen; eXist open Mailinglist
Subject: Re: [Exist-open] exist-DB on Ubuntu 12.04

> we had some problems some time ago with the 'system tray function' of 
> 'some' linux window managers; the database seems to be running 
> according to the logs..

Like Dannes says, I would also suspect a problem with the launcher rather
than eXist itself. Could you tell us if you get any errors on the console if
you run the launcher directly with

java -Xmx1024 -jar start.jar org.exist.launcher.Launcher

As a workaround you can always run eXist-db directly in the shell without
launcher using the supplied startup.sh script in EXIST_HOME/bin.

Wolfgang=