[Engine-devel] Error on starting webadmin

[Roy Golan]

On 12/13/2012 04:32 PM, Vojtech Szocs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've updated http://www.ovirt.org/Building_Engine_Draft - added section "Engine local configuration" (feel free to edit or modify as necessary)
this is making the contribution process more complex. lets think of a 
lighter way to get a developing setup.

>
> Vojtech
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:49:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Error on starting webadmin
>
> Hi guys,
>
> as Moti mentioned, this issue is related to UI plugins patches that have been merged recently.
>
> However, the root cause of this issue is LocalConfig class (machine-specific Engine configuration) throwing exception in following cases:
> - cannot load default properties (ENGINE_DEFAULTS property if defined, otherwise /usr/share/ovirt-engine/conf/engine.conf.defaults)
> - cannot load custom properties (ENGINE_VARS property if defined, otherwise /etc/sysconfig/ovirt-engine)
> - requesting missing property value (LocalConfig.getProperty method)
>
> (Note that UI plugins use two Engine properties: ENGINE_USR and ENGINE_ETC.)
>
> As Juan suggests in his comment in http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/10026/, we could include this in "building Engine" wiki. For example:
> - have ENGINE_DEFAULTS property point to OVIRT_HOME/backend/manager/conf/engine.conf.defaults (alternatively, users can copy this file to /usr/share/ovirt-engine/conf)
> - create custom Engine config file, e.g. ~/myengine.conf, and have ENGINE_VARS property point to this file
>
> Vojtech
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Erez" <derez at redhat.com>
> To: "Moti Asayag" <masayag at redhat.com>
> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 11:49:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Error on starting webadmin
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Moti Asayag" <masayag at redhat.com>
>> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 12:25:07 PM
>> Subject: [Engine-devel] Error on starting webadmin
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I get the following error when trying to connect to webadmin:
>>
>> 2012-12-13 11:57:06,689 ERROR
>> [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[default-host].[/webadmin].[WebAdminDynamicHosting]]
>> (http--0.0.0.0-8700-1) Servlet.service() for servlet
>> WebAdminDynamicHosting threw exception:
>> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The property "ENGINE_USR"
>> doesn't have a value.
>>
>> It caused by the PluginDataManager instantiation which requires
>> several variables to be defined.
>>
>> In order to by pass those errors do:
>> 1. create a file /usr/share/ovirt-engine/conf/engine.conf.defaults
>> 2. Add the following properties to the file:
>> ENGINE_USR=username
>> ENGINE_ETC=/etc/ovirt-engine
>> 3. restart Jboss
> You can use the 'engine.conf.defaults' that resides at 'backend/manager/conf'.
>
>> Regards,
>> Moti
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