[MGNLEE-153] Installation on MacosX and Linux fails sometimes Created: 21/Jul/09  Updated: 18/Dec/09  Resolved: 18/Dec/09

Status: Closed
Project: Magnolia DX Core
Component/s: installer
Affects Version/s: 4.1
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Improvement Priority: Major
Reporter: Alvaro Arce Assignee: Magnolia International
Resolution: Workaround exists Votes: 0
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified
Environment:

macosX, Linux


Issue Links:
duplicate
duplicates MAGNOLIA-1959 Leopard (osx 10.5) issues Closed
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[ ]* Doc/release notes changes? Comment present?
[ ]* Downstream builds green?
[ ]* Solution information and context easily available?
[ ]* Tests
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[ ]  Architecture Decision Record (ADR)
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 Description   

Last two weeks, I had 3 people complaining that Magnolia doesn't install on their linux machines, the same thing happened to 2 customers on MacosX.
The problem with the linux machines was for the 3 of them with the number of open files, every time the installation process stooped at the task 38 with the following message:
38 tasks have been executed, for a total of 265 tasks.

General messages

  • Could not perform installation: javax.jcr.NoSuchWorkspaceException: resources

then after raising the number of open files the installation went ok.

On macosX as we know the problem comes with the impossibility to have two instances of Magnolia in one single Application server, so everthing goes fine when Magnolia is installed on two different servers.
Again I had some clients complaining that Magnolia doesn't work on their mac. I had to provide a zip with Magnolia configured in two different app servers so they can test it.
In my opinion, we can't ask our Macintosh customers to configure a second server on a different port and install magnolia, I don't see the "simply is beautiful" on telling them to do so.

Maybe we cannot do much about it, but it would be nice to have somewhere on the release notes an information on those two issues. So we can point our future customers to them if they have a problem during installation.

We know that some customers wont give it a second try, if already during the installation it just doesn't work....



 Comments   
Comment by Pascal Mangold [ 21/Jul/09 ]

i can totally agree and think this should be investigated as soon as possible

Comment by Olivier Marti [ 21/Jul/09 ]

The Issue with the two magnolias in one application server seems only to be related with MacOSX Client version 10.5.
We have some client 10.4 and server OS 10.5 running without any problem here.

The linux issue is common and can easily be solved by using "ulimit -n 30000" in either the system users profile or the applications servers startup script.

Comment by Magnolia International [ 18/Aug/09 ]

See MAGNOLIA-1959

Comment by Magnolia International [ 18/Dec/09 ]

The OSX "firewall" issues are not happening anymore since 10.5.8 and 10.6.1

Added a note at http://documentation.magnolia-cms.com/administration.html#Knownissues about the "too many open file" issue.

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