Help troubleshooting why web container won't start

[Dave Alvarado]

Hi,

Recently, I restarted my JBoss 5.1 AS app, running locally, (Mac 10.5.6) and noticed that I could not reach my jmx-console via a web browser. Then I tried telnetting into the port on which I thought the web container was running and got a connection refused error. So it would seem that the web container isn't starting and I wanted to ask how I could troubleshoot this more. There is nothing suspicious in my boot.log file, the contents of which I have included below.

Thanks for any help, - Dave

10:31:19,579 INFO  [ServerImpl] Starting JBoss (Microcontainer)...10:31:19,580 INFO  [ServerImpl] Release ID: JBoss [The Oracle] 5.1.0.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_5_1_0_GA date=200905221053)
10:31:19,580 DEBUG [ServerImpl] Using config: org.jboss.bootstrap.BaseServerConfig@2e7820
10:31:19,580 DEBUG [ServerImpl] Server type: class org.jboss.bootstrap.microcontainer.ServerImpl
10:31:19,580 DEBUG [ServerImpl] Server loaded through: org.jboss.bootstrap.NoAnnotationURLClassLoader
10:31:19,580 INFO  [ServerImpl] Bootstrap URL: null
10:31:19,580 INFO  [ServerImpl] Home Dir: /opt/jboss/jboss-5.1.0.GA_2
10:31:19,580 INFO  [ServerImpl] Home URL: file:/opt/jboss/jboss-5.1.0.GA_2/
10:31:19,580 INFO  [ServerImpl] Library URL: file:/opt/jboss/jboss-5.1.0.GA_2/lib/
10:31:19,581 INFO  [ServerImpl] Patch URL: null
10:31:19,581 INFO  [ServerImpl] Common Base URL: file:/opt/jboss/jboss-5.1.0.GA_2/common/
10:31:19,581 INFO  [ServerImpl] Common Library URL: file:/opt/jboss/jboss-5.1.0.GA_2/common/lib/
10:31:19,581 INFO  [ServerImpl] Server Name: dev-jboss-web-5.1.010:31:19,581 INFO  [ServerImpl] Server Base Dir: /opt/containers/jboss
10:31:19,582 INFO  [ServerImpl] Server Base URL: file:/opt/containers/jboss/
10:31:19,582 INFO  [ServerImpl] Server Config URL: file:/opt/containers/jboss/dev-jboss-web-5.1.0/conf/
10:31:19,582 INFO  [ServerImpl] Server Home Dir: /opt/containers/jboss/dev-jboss-web-5.1.0
10:31:19,582 INFO  [ServerImpl] Server Home URL: file:/opt/containers/jboss/dev-jboss-web-5.1.0/10:31:19,582 INFO  [ServerImpl] Server Data Dir: /opt/containers/jboss/dev-jboss-web-5.1.0/data
10:31:19,582 INFO  [ServerImpl] Server Library URL: file:/opt/containers/jboss/dev-jboss-web-5.1.0/lib/
10:31:19,582 INFO  [ServerImpl] Server Log Dir: /opt/var/logs/jboss/dev-jboss-web-5.1.0
10:31:19,582 INFO  [ServerImpl] Server Native Dir: /opt/containers/jboss/dev-jboss-web-5.1.0/tmp/native
10:31:19,582 INFO  [ServerImpl] Server Temp Dir: /opt/containers/jboss/dev-jboss-web-5.1.0/tmp
10:31:19,582 INFO  [ServerImpl] Server Temp Deploy Dir: /opt/containers/jboss/dev-jboss-web-5.1.0/tmp/deploy10:31:19,586 DEBUG [ServerImpl] Shutdown hook added Thread[JBoss Shutdown Hook,5,jboss]
10:31:19,600 DEBUG [KernelFactory] Starting JBoss Kernel construction...
10:31:19,749 DEBUG [KernelFactory] Completed JBoss Kernel construction.  Duration: 149 milliseconds
10:31:20,642 DEBUG [ServerImpl] Already in start, ignoring duplicate start
10:31:20,644 INFO  [ServerImpl] Starting Microcontainer, bootstrapURL=file:/opt/containers/jboss/dev-jboss-web-5.1.0/conf/bootstrap.xml10:31:20,696 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] Created parser: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl@c3c315, isNamespaceAware: true, isValidating: true, isX
IncludeAware: true10:31:20,703 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] http://xml.org/sax/features/validation set to: true
10:31:20,703 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces set to: true
10:31:20,768 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] Created parser: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl@c3c315, isNamespaceAware: true, isValidating: true, isXIncludeAware: true
10:31:20,796 DEBUG [ServerImpl] BootstrapURLs=[bootstrap/logging.xml, bootstrap/vfs.xml, bootstrap/classloader.xml, bootstrap/aop.xml, bootstrap/jmx.xml, bootstrap/deployers.xml, bootstrap/profile.xml]
10:31:20,834 DEBUG [ServerImpl] Deploying bootstrap xml:bootstrap/logging.xml
10:31:20,835 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] Created parser: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl@10e35d5, isNamespaceAware: true, isValidating: true, isXIncludeAware: true
10:31:20,835 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] http://xml.org/sax/features/validation set to: true
10:31:20,835 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces set to: true
10:31:20,835 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/dynamic set to: true
10:31:20,835 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] Created parser: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl@10e35d5, isNamespaceAware: true, isValidating: true, isXIncludeAware: true
10:31:21,434 DEBUG [LevelMapper] Registered new log level 'SEVERE' with value 40000
10:31:21,435 DEBUG [LevelMapper] Registered new log level 'WARNING' with value 30000
10:31:21,435 DEBUG [LevelMapper] Registered new log level 'INFO' with value 20000
10:31:21,435 DEBUG [LevelMapper] Registered new log level 'CONFIG' with value 15000
10:31:21,435 DEBUG [LevelMapper] Registered new log level 'FINE' with value 10000
10:31:21,435 DEBUG [LevelMapper] Registered new log level 'FINER' with value 7500
10:31:21,436 DEBUG [LevelMapper] Registered new log level 'FINEST' with value 5000
10:31:21,436 DEBUG [LevelMapper] Registered new log level 'FATAL' with value 50000
10:31:21,436 DEBUG [LevelMapper] Registered new log level 'ERROR' with value 40000
10:31:21,436 DEBUG [LevelMapper] Registered new log level 'WARN' with value 30000
10:31:21,436 DEBUG [LevelMapper] Registered new log level 'DEBUG' with value 10000
10:31:21,436 DEBUG [LevelMapper] Registered new log level 'TRACE' with value 5000
10:31:21,457 DEBUG [ServerImpl] Deploying bootstrap xml:bootstrap/vfs.xml
10:31:21,458 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] Created parser: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl@9abc69, isNamespaceAware: true, isValidating: true, isXIncludeAware: true
10:31:21,458 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] http://xml.org/sax/features/validation set to: true
10:31:21,458 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces set to: true
10:31:21,458 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/dynamic set to: true
10:31:21,458 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] Created parser: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl@9abc69, isNamespaceAware: true, isValidating: true, isXIncludeAware: true
10:31:21,508 DEBUG [IterableTimedVFSCache] Creating timed cache policy, lifetime: null, threadSafe: true, resolution: null
10:31:21,537 INFO  [VFSCacheFactory] Initializing VFSCache [org.jboss.virtual.plugins.cache.CombinedVFSCache]
10:31:21,541 INFO  [VFSCacheFactory] Using VFSCache [CombinedVFSCache[real-cache: null]]
10:31:21,681 DEBUG [ServerImpl] Deploying bootstrap xml:bootstrap/classloader.xml
10:31:21,681 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] Created parser: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl@8dcd5d, isNamespaceAware: true, isValidating: true, isXIncludeAware: true
10:31:21,681 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] http://xml.org/sax/features/validation set to: true
10:31:21,681 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces set to: true
10:31:21,681 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/dynamic set to: true
10:31:21,681 DEBUG [SaxJBossXBParser] Created parser: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl@8dcd5d, isNamespaceAware: true, isValidating: true, isXIncludeAware: true
10:31:22,004 DEBUG [Domain] org.jboss.classloading.spi.dependency.Domain@1320a41{DefaultDomain} add module VFSClassLoaderPolicyModule bootstrap-classloader:0.0.0
10:31:22,044 INFO  [CopyMechanism] VFS temp dir: /opt/containers/jboss/dev-jboss-web-5.1.0/tmp

[Jaikiran Pai]

What command do you use to start the server? And are you trying to access the server from a separate (remote) system? The boot.log isn't useful in these cases. It's the logs that you see on the console (or the last few lines in the server.log during startup) which will usually have important information like these:

2009-12-04 13:19:04,509 INFO  [org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol] (main) Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-0.0.0.0-8080
2009-12-04 13:19:04,528 INFO  [org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProtocol] (main) Starting Coyote AJP/1.3 on ajp-0.0.0.0-8009

What does your log show? And finally what URL are you trying to access?