Re: [Exist-commits] problems with exist

[Sebastian B. <sb...@jb...>]

Hi Abayomi

welcome to eXist :-)
Please post stuff like this to the exist-open list. I forwarded your 
message. Also, Wolfgang does read the list, so you don't have to mail 
him separately.

Sebastian

On Thursday 02 September 2004 16:44, abayomi king wrote:
> MY name is Abayomi King.  I downloaded your application for use in
> my MSc project which was to build a system on a flexible workflow
> architecture with an XML database on the back-end.  Machine is an
> IBM PIII operating on Windows 2000. I encountered some difficulties
> and have documented them for you. 1.  After the installation of
> eXist was completed, two shortcuts were placed on the Desktop.  One
> to start the database, and the other to start the client.  By
> double clicking the shortcuts, the user was suppose to start the
> database and the client.  However this did not work.  When it was
> attempted to start the database using the shortcut, a command
> prompt appeared, but before execution was complete it disappeared,
> indicating that a command was not accurately carried out.  It was
> attempted to identify the command in the startup batch file that
> caused the error.  This was done by editing the startup file by
> placing a 'pause' command after each command in the file.  No
> visible error was thrown until a particular  line was attempted to
> be executed.  This line was: set JAVA_OPTS=-Xms64000k -Xmx256000k
> -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.endorsed.dirs="%JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS%"
> While executing the edited batch file (the one with the 'pause'
> commands), the prompt "Press any key to continue" appeared on the
> command prompt reflecting the 'pause' statement just before the
> above executable line.  When a key was pressed the command prompt
> disappeared, indicating an error in the above line.  The attached
> file labeled "startup.bat" contains the original startup file with
> the added 'pause' commands.  The error thrown is as shown below.
> Press any key to continue . . .
> Press any key to continue . . .
> Press any key to continue . . .
> Press any key to continue . . .
> Invalid initial heap size: -Xms64000k -Xmx256000k
> -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.endorsed.dirs
> ="C:\Program
> Could not create the Java virtual machine.
> C:\>
> In order for the batchfile to workit was necessary to replace the
> variables with their values in the batchfile.  This resulted in the
> following file set EXIST_HOME=C:\Progra~1\eXist
> C:\j2sdk1.4.2\bin\java -Xms64000k -Xmx256000k -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
> -Djava.endorsed.dirs="C:\Program Files\eXist\lib\endorsed"
> -Dexist.home="C:\Program Files\eXist" -jar "C:\Program
> Files\eXist\start.jar" jetty %1
> Double clicking this file started the database succesfully.  The
> same occured for the client file.
> 2.  In the documentation for eXist, on the 'quick start.htm' page,
> a page 'xadmin.xsp' which provided simple administrative access to
> eXist via the url 'http://exist.sourceforge.net/xadmin.xsp.html'
> did not reveal the desired page. No page was revealed. 'Error 404,
> Not Found', was generated.  It read: Not Found
> The requested URL /xadmin.xsp.html was not found on this server.
> Apache/1.3.26 Server at exist.sourceforge.net Port 80
> A similar situation with a similar error message occured for all
> the references made mentioned in Section 8 (Sample pages) on the
> 'quick start.htm' page. The Shutdown sequence was not succesfull
> when it was attempted to shutdown the database via 'start' menu. 
> This shutdown option was located in the start, programs, eXist XML
> Database, Shutdown Database.  However, shuting down the database
> from the command prompt via the line 'C:\PROGRA~1\eXist>java -jar
> start.jar shutdown' does.
>
>
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