Re: [Exist-open] "Collection /db/system/security/exist/accounts cannot be created."

[Michael W. <wes...@ja...>]

Hi Tony,

Thanks, but still no luck. I don't have a 'run.sh'. [1]


That's odd. I have eXist 3.x and the EXIST_HOME/bin directory has the
following:

backup.bat  batch.d     client.sh   eXist_32x32.ico  run.bat  server.bat
 shutdown.bat  startup.bat
backup.sh   client.bat  deprecated  functions.d      *run.sh*   server.sh
shutdown.sh   startup.sh

These shell scripts make sure that all of the CLASS_PATH stuff gets setup
properly for running the
utilities like `org.exist.backup.ExportMain`.

If you're on Windows, you would use `run.bat`.


> After I made a
> script that no longer bombed out from missing dependencies, I ran
> 'org.exist.backup.ExportMain'.
>
> I got multiple messages of the form:
>
> INFO: None of content dirs exist:
> '/usr/local/src/exist3-data/expathrepo/doc-0.4.7/content' and
> '/usr/local/src/exist3-data/expathrepo/doc-0.4.7/doc'
>

Are you trying to execute from the build directory? Did you not run the
installer to place it all in a
user's directory? Are you running it from a container and pointing to a
data directory on the host
machine?


> then I got:
>
> 17:09:17.550 [main] ERROR org.exist.storage.DBBroker - no data found at
> tid 25; page 60995
> java.io.IOException: no data found at tid 25; page 60995
>         at org.exist.storage.index.BFile.getAsStream(BFile.java:492)
> ~[exist.jar:?]
>         at org.exist.storage.index.BFile.getAsStream(BFile.java:462)
> ~[exist.jar:?]
>         at
> org.exist.storage.NativeBroker.openCollection(NativeBroker.java:928)
> [exist.jar:?]
> ...
> 17:09:17.554 [main] ERROR org.exist.storage.DBBroker - Collection
> '/db/system/security/exist/accounts' found in subCollections set but is
> missing from collections.dbx!
> 17:09:17.569 [main] ERROR org.exist.storage.BrokerPools - Unable to
> initialize database instance 'exist':
> org.exist.storage.BrokerPoolServiceException: org.exist.EXistException:
> java.io.IOException: Collection /db/system/security/exist/accounts
> cannot be created.


Before doing anything -- like bringing the eXist server back up, you want
to make an emergency
backup. Be sure to make the target a local directory that exists and that
you have write permission
for. I use "~/backup/date-reason" (where "date" is the date that it shut
down and "reason" is "locked"
or "out-of-memory"). The "backup" directory exists in my exist user's home
directory.

/usr/local/* is not usually writable by ordinary users.

Let's start by locating where the EXIST_HOME/bin directory is.

-- 
Michael Westbay
Writer/System Administrator
http://www.japanesebaseball.com/