Re: [Exist-open] [ANN] Release of eXist 5.3.0

[Joe W. <jo...@gm...>]

Hi Craig,

Thanks for reporting your experience. We're tracking the Apple installation
experience issues at https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/issues/3961.

Several people have reported experiencing an issue where Dashboard doesn't
open after upgrading eXist unless you clear your cookies. (For me, clearing
the JSESSIONID cookie worked; I do this in Chrome by navigating to
Dashboard, opening View > Developer > Developer Tools > Application >
Cookies > http://localhost:8080, selecting the JSESSIONID cookie, and
hitting the delete key or using right-click > Delete.)

I don't think that's your issue, but I mentioned it just in case you do see
it (it has returned for some people who access multiple versions of
Dashboard in the same browser).

In Slack, Christian Wittern reported an issue similar to yours. It turned
out to be caused by a custom package missing a repo.xml resource, a
condition that triggered a bug in the packageservice app. What allowed
Christian to overcome the problem was by modifying the
packages:get-package-meta() function in
/db/apps/packageservice/modules/packages.xqm module, lines 269-274, to read:

        try {
            let $meta := repo:get-resource($app, $name)
            return util:binary-to-string($meta)
        } catch * {
            util:log("warn", ("Could not get metadata for: ", $app, $name))
        }

Christian reported that this fixed the issue, and in Juri said he plans to
submit a PR with this fix.

Until a new version of packageservice is available, hopefully this
workaround will get you back up and running. You might also examine your
packages to look for a missing repo.xml file or possibly even other package
metadata files (e.g., expath-pkg.xml).

Joe

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 5:19 PM Craig Berry via Exist-open <
exi...@li...> wrote:

>
>
> > On Jun 26, 2021, at 1:04 PM, Juri Leino <ju...@ex...> wrote:
> >
> > We are very happy to announce that eXist-db 5.3.0 has been released.
> >
> > It's been quite a while since the last release. A lot has been happening
> behind the scenes, and we are happy to share the outcome with you. 5.3.0 is
> a minor release, and should be 100% API compatible with 5.0.0  as such.
> >
>
> Thanks for all the hard work.  I have run into some issues getting this
> working and I'm reporting here rather than GitHub as it's unclear to me
> whether the problems are in eXist, one of the new or revised packages, or
> pilot error of some sort.
>
> I installed the DMG image on macOS 11.4, keeping an existing data
> directory that's been running fine with 5.2.0.  I did have to ignore a
> warning about not being able to verify the identity of the publisher, which
> I assume has something to do with not paying Apple to countersign the code
> signing cert or something.  That was readily ignorable, if initially
> alarming.  I bumped up some memory settings during the first start-up but
> otherwise accepted the defaults.
>
> When I open the Dashboard from the menu bar and logged in, I didn't get
> any application icons.  I clicked on Package Manager in the left side menu
> and got a "loading of available packages failed" message.  At this point
> the browser console shows a 404 error at this URL:
>
>
> http://localhost:8080/exist/apps/dashboard/bower_components/web-animations-js/web-animations-next-lite.min.js.map
>
> and a 400 error at this URL:
>
> http://localhost:8080/exist/apps/packageservice/packages/apps
>
> the details of which look like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <exception>
>     <path>/db/apps/packageservice/modules/local-apps.xql</path>
>     <message>err:FODC0002 Resource icon.png does not exist. [at line 148,
> column 18, source: /db/apps/packageservice/modules/packages.xqm]
>     In function:
>         (item()*, item()*, item()*)
> [148:18:/db/apps/packageservice/modules/packages.xqm]
>         packages:scan-repo(function(*))
> [147:5:/db/apps/packageservice/modules/packages.xqm]
>         packages:installed-apps(xs:string)
> [118:19:/db/apps/packageservice/modules/packages.xqm]
>         packages:get-local(xs:string)
> [38:5:/db/apps/packageservice/modules/packages.xqm]
>         packages:get-local-applications()
> [16:6:/db/apps/packageservice/modules/packages.xqm]</message>
> </exception>
>
> There is an icon.png at /db/apps/packageservice/icon.png, so I'm not sure
> what it's confused about.  In /db/apps/packageservice/expath-pkg.xml, it
> says the version I have is 1.3.9 -- is that the right one?
>
> eXide seems to be working fine.  I tried running the following in eXide,
> which had no effect:
>
>   import module namespace repair="http://exist-db.org/xquery/repo/repair"
>   at "resource:org/exist/xquery/modules/expathrepo/repair.xql";
>
>   repair:clean-all(),
>   repair:repair()
>
> Any other ideas?
>
>
>
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