[Spacewalk-list] Startup error on new install

[Justin Sherrill]

Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> I followed the install guides online and everything went great, but when
> I tried to login I got the "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" and
> in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Sep 26 22:46:50 spacewalk wrapper[1582]: Startup failed: Timed out
> waiting for signal from JVM.
> Sep 26 22:46:51 spacewalk wrapper[1582]: JVM did not exit on request,
> terminated
> Sep 26 22:46:51 spacewalk wrapper[1582]: There were 5 failed launches in
> a row, each lasting less than 300 seconds.  Giving up.
> Sep 26 22:46:51 spacewalk wrapper[1582]:   There may be a configuration
> problem: please check the logs.
> Sep 26 22:46:51 spacewalk wrapper[1582]: <-- Wrapper Stopped
> 
> I had read about a wrapper.ping.timeout you could adjust for cases like
> this, but couldn't find where the config file should be for that.  This
> is also running under vmware so might not be as fast as a normal
> machine.  We would like to test this before rolling it into production.
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
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Since you can't login to the web UI, i would check the tomcat logs in
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out to see if there are any more errors there.

-Justin

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