error deploying uPortal 3.2.4

Matthew

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Sep 28, 2016, 4:29:39 PM9/28/16

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I'm trying to restore uPortal 3.2.4 from a subversion repository my predecessor left. I have downloaded this into /home/testuser/uportal . We're running Ubuntu 16.04.1.

I have apache, tomcat, and postgres up and running. However, when I try to use ant to deploy, I get errors.

I don't know what "Artifact ________ is not available or out-of-date" means specifically, but I'm assuming there's a repository I'm not including. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Matt Dukes

testuser@test:~/uportal/TRUNK$ ant initportal

Buildfile: /home/testuser/uportal/TRUNK/build.xml

prodPrompt:

initportal:

[echo] Initializing uPortal

checkForTomcat:

deploy-ear:

install-parent-pom:

[artifact:install] [INFO] Installing /home/testuser/uportal/TRUNK/pom.xml to /home/testuser/.m2/repository/org/jasig/portal/uportal-parent/3.2.4/uportal-parent-3.2.4.pom

[touch] Creating /tmp/jasig/uportal-parent.pom-2041976809-marker

[echo] Artifact '${uportal-impl.pom.build.directory}/${uportal-impl.pom.build.finalName}.${uportal-impl.pom.packaging}' is not available or out-of-date, calling 'mvn install'

mvn:

BUILD FAILED

/home/testuser/uportal/TRUNK/build.xml:125: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/testuser/uportal/TRUNK/build.xml:369: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/testuser/uportal/TRUNK/build.xml:1017: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/testuser/uportal/TRUNK/build.xml:938: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/testuser/uportal/TRUNK/build.xml:903: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/testuser/uportal/TRUNK/build.xml:906: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/testuser/uportal/TRUNK/build.xml:870: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/testuser/uportal/TRUNK/build.xml:1058: /home/testuser/uportal/TRUNK/boot does not exist.

In build.xml, I found this:

<!--

| Define the location of the resulting artifact

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Carlos Alonso Vega

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Sep 28, 2016, 5:29:42 PM9/28/16

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Hi,

Not sure at all but I could bet on the ant and mvn version you could be using. Try ant 1.7.1 and mvn 2.2.1. I have a 3.2.4 install and with them I can build it successfuly.

Hope this helps

Carlos

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Drew Wills

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Sep 28, 2016, 6:18:29 PM9/28/16

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Matt,

Welcome to the community — I’m glad you reached out to us. I hope I can help.

On Sep 28, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Matthew <mdd...@fsmail.bradley.edu> wrote:

I'm trying to restore uPortal 3.2.4 from a subversion repository my predecessor left. [...]

I won’t spend a lot of time on this section because I suspect it won’t achieve the desired effect, but I feel obligated to say…

- (1) I wish you weren’t messing with uPortal 3.x. The 3.2.4 release came out 15-Oct-2010 (almost exactly 6 years ago). Only some of the people on this list have been around long enough to remember anything about the issues you’re likely to encounter… it will be tough to get good advice. The dependencies are stale — you’re likely to have (a least a couple) issues just obtaining the things uP 3.2.4 needs to build and run. There are security vulnerabilities in the libraries included with that version. Besides, uPortal 4 is just a lot nicer.

- (2) I wish you weren’t messing with Subversion. Odds are very high that people in this community have found & fixed some of the issues you will come across. The primary uPortal sources are hosted in Github. Git makes it amazingly easy to apply newer changes from the upstream project. Applying those changes in Subversion is fussy, effort-intensive work.

/home/testuser/uportal/TRUNK/build.xml:1058: /home/testuser/uportal/TRUNK/boot does not exist.

I am curious about this error. I’m looking at the 3.2 branch…

- https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/tree/rel-3-2-patches

and there is no boot/ directory.

There is no mention of a “boot” directory in either build.xml or pom.xml.

drew

Matthew

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Sep 29, 2016, 9:49:06 AM9/29/16

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Drew,

How does one check the version of uPortal they're running? I haven't been able to find this yet, and it's entirely possible that I'm trying to restore from a version other than 3.2.4.

Subversion is what we're using now, but I may be able to convince someone to set up Git if it'll make our lives easier in the future.

I'm not sure if finding out the version is going to help my issue directly, but it'll at least help to get me using the correct set of installation instructions. :)

Thanks,
Matt

Matthew

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Sep 29, 2016, 9:50:45 AM9/29/16

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Carlos,

You're right, I was using the most current Maven and Ant. That being said, it's been brought to my attention that I may be using a different version than 3.2.4. I'll investigate this more when I find out.

Thanks,

Matt

<property name="@{project-name}.artifact" value="...@{project-name}.pom.build.directory}/${@{project-name}.pom.build.finalName}.${@{project-name}.pom.packaging}" />

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Matthew

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Sep 30, 2016, 11:09:09 AM9/30/16

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I changed my versions of ant and mvn to ant 1.8.2 and 3.3.9 (uPortal 4's minimum requirements).

I have gotten further, but I am still running into issues. When I run:

ant dbtest

I get a lot of output that indicates successes, but 1 test failure that is stopping the process from continuing:

[exec] Running org.jasig.portal.events.JacksonPortalEventTest

[exec] --LoginEvent at 2016-09-30T14:58:54.313Z for system

[exec] --LoginEvent at 2016-09-30T14:58:54.442Z for system

[exec] --LogoutEvent at 2016-09-30T14:58:54.459Z for system

[exec] Tests run: 2, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.259 sec <<< FAILURE! - in org.jasig.portal.events.JacksonPortalEventTest

[exec] testPortalEventSerialization(org.jasig.portal.events.JacksonPortalEventTest) Time elapsed: 0.077 sec <<< FAILURE!

Then more at the end:

[exec] Failed tests:

[exec] JacksonPortalEventTest.testPortalEventSerialization:79->assertEventJsonEquals:164 expected:<..."system","groups":["[Student","Employee]"],"attributes":{"us...> but was:<..."system","groups":["[Employee","Student]"],"attributes":{"us...>

[exec]

[exec] Tests run: 458, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 5

The fact that it's looking for [Student","Employee] and finding [Employee","Student] makes me think this test maybe wasn't written properly (but I haven't been able to understand what's being tested yet.

Is there a way to skip tests? Is it wise to do this?

Also (and forgive me if I posted this before), is there a way to ensure that I don't wipe the database every time I deploy from ant? I haven't actually deployed yet, but I want to know before I blow anything up.

Thanks,

Matt Dukes

Drew Wills

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Sep 30, 2016, 12:13:31 PM9/30/16

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On Sep 30, 2016, at 8:09 AM, Matthew <mdd...@fsmail.bradley.edu> wrote:

Is there a way to skip tests? Is it wise to do this?

Definitely. Add…

-Dmaven.test.skip=true

to any Ant or Maven command to skip the tests.

Also (and forgive me if I posted this before), is there a way to ensure that I don't wipe the database every time I deploy from ant? I haven't actually deployed yet, but I want to know before I blow anything up.

Certainly. None of these touch the database

- $ant deploy-ear // Builds & deploys uPortal and all “bundled" web apps
- $ant deploy-war // Builds & deploys the uPortal web app only

drew

Matthew

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Sep 30, 2016, 5:34:00 PM9/30/16

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Thanks for the help. This has gotten me further, but I'm still running into trouble.

Ant gets all the way to the Calendar Portlet before it runs into this issue:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project CalendarPortlet: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.jasig.portal.portlets-overlay:CalendarPortlet:war:4.0.15: Failed to collect dependencies at org.jasig.portlet:CalendarPortlet:jar:classes:2.3.4 -> org.osaf:caldav4j:jar:0.7: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.osaf:caldav4j:jar:0.7: Could not transfer artifact org.osaf:caldav4j:pom:0.7 from/to 3rd-party-embedded (file://${project.basedir}/3rd-party/repository): Repository path /3rd-party/repository does not exist, and cannot be created. -> [Help 1]

I went looking for caldav4j's maven information, and wound up at this page:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24927599/how-to-install-caldav4j-using-maven

This article says to put this into my pom file:

<repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>org.osaf.caldav4j</id>
            <name>org.osaf.caldav4j</name>
            <url>https://caldav4j.googlecode.com/svn/maven/</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to have resolved my issue, and the same error you see above occurs.

I also tried adding the file to my local maven repo using:

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=/home/mddukes/caldav4j-0.7.jar -DgroupId=org.osaf.caldav4j -DartifactId=caldav4j -Dversion=0.7 -Dpackaging=jar

Once again, I get the same error.

I feel like I'm missing something here. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Matt Dukes

Matthew

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Sep 30, 2016, 5:42:54 PM9/30/16

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It's also worth noting:

file://${project.basedir}/3rd-party/repository

I don't know what ${project.basedir} is set to, and I haven't been able to find any reference to it. I'm inclined to think maybe it's not set, or set improperly, but it's gotten a few items down the list of items run by ant deploy-ear so I'm not sure about this.

[INFO] Reactor Summary:

[INFO]

[INFO] uPortal Parent ..................................... SUCCESS [ 1.670 s]

[INFO] uPortal Search API ................................. SUCCESS [ 1.533 s]

[INFO] uPortal WAR ........................................ SUCCESS [ 36.369 s]

[INFO] uPortal Portlets ................................... SUCCESS [ 0.790 s]

[INFO] Announcements Portlet .............................. SUCCESS [ 3.547 s]

[INFO] Bookmarks Portlet .................................. SUCCESS [ 0.969 s]

[INFO] Calendar Portlet ................................... FAILURE [ 0.161 s]

Drew Wills

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Sep 30, 2016, 5:43:52 PM9/30/16

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Mathew,

The uPortal community ran into issues with dependencies for the Calendar portlet a few times over the last 2-3 years. It’s one of the things I was thinking of when I expressed concern about working with that earlier version of the portal.

We handled the caldav4j 0.7 jar this way (back in June)…

- https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/commit/fb6d8087b1afd689f68831074c271bff55e8213e

On Sep 30, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Matthew <mdd...@fsmail.bradley.edu> wrote:

I also tried adding the file to my local maven repo using:

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=/home/mddukes/caldav4j-0.7.jar -DgroupId=org.osaf.caldav4j -DartifactId=caldav4j -Dversion=0.7 -Dpackaging=jar

It looks like this didn’t work because the correct groupId would be simply ‘org.osaf’ (not ‘org.osaf.caldav4j’).

I think this approach would work if you run it like this…

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=/home/mddukes/caldav4j-0.7.jar -DgroupId=org.osaf -DartifactId=caldav4j -Dversion=0.7 -Dpackaging=jar

drew

Drew Wills

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Sep 30, 2016, 5:47:36 PM9/30/16

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Mathew,

Sorry — I didn’t read the earlier email quite correctly. It looks like you have the fix I pointed you to.

${project.basedir} is set by the Maven tool. The value is the directory in which the pom.xml is.

Do you have {uPortal}/uportal-portlets-overlay/CalendarPortlet/3rd-party/repository/org/osaf/caldav4j/0.7/?

drew

Matthew

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Oct 3, 2016, 1:16:59 PM10/3/16

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It doesn't appear that I have that directory:

mddukes@test:~/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/uportal-portlets-overlay/CalendarPortlet$ ls -al

total 24

drwxr-xr-x 3 mddukes uucp 4096 Sep 29 09:27 .

drwxr-xr-x 16 mddukes uucp 4096 Sep 29 09:27 ..

-rwxr-xr-x 1 mddukes uucp 8841 Sep 29 09:27 pom.xml

drwxr-xr-x 3 mddukes uucp 4096 Sep 29 09:27 src

However, I did use your advice installing it to my local maven repo, and it seems to have worked (at least, ant deploy-ear doesn't give me any errors for that anymore).

That being said, I have another issue. The installer can't find jakarta-slide-webdavlib:pom:2.2pre1-httpclient-3.0.

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project CalendarPortlet: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.jasig.portal.portlets-overlay:CalendarPortlet:war:4.0.15: Failed to collect dependencies at org.jasig.portlet:CalendarPortlet:jar:classes:2.3.4 -> slide:jakarta-slide-webdavlib:jar:2.2pre1-httpclient-3.0: Failed to read artifact descriptor for slide:jakarta-slide-webdavlib:jar:2.2pre1-httpclient-3.0: Could not transfer artifact slide:jakarta-slide-webdavlib:pom:2.2pre1-httpclient-3.0 from/to 3rd-party-embedded (file://${project.basedir}/3rd-party/repository): Repository path /3rd-party/repository does not exist, and cannot be created. -> [Help 1]

I attempted to add it to my local repository using the file found at:

I used the same mvn install:install-file command you recommended above, but that doesn't appear to be working:

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=/usr/share/maven/repo/jakarta-slide-webdavlib-2.2pre1-httpclient-3.0.jar -DgroupId=slide -DartifactId=jakarta-slide-webdavlid -version=2.2pre1-httpclient-3.0

jakarta-slide-webdav appears to be an abandoned project, and while I did eventually find the version I was looking for, it wasn't in the official repo. Can I substitute a different version?

Thanks,

Matt Dukes

Matthew

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Oct 4, 2016, 9:10:13 AM10/4/16

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As it turns out, we aren't using the Calendar portlet (we have our own calendar webpage we link to instead).

Is there a way to optionally disable portlets so they won't be installed?

thanks,

Matt Dukes

Aaron Grant

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Oct 4, 2016, 9:31:15 AM10/4/16

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Hi Matt,

I'd just comment out the ones I don't use in uportal-ear/pom.xml and uportal-portlet-overlay/pom.xml

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Matthew

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Commenting it out has gotten me considerably further in the process (thanks!).

However, I'm still running into issues (presumably with permissions?). When I run:

ant -Dmaven.test.skip=true deploy-ear -e

I get:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[INFO] Reactor Summary:

[INFO]

[INFO] uPortal Parent ..................................... SUCCESS [ 1.393 s]

[INFO] uPortal Search API ................................. SUCCESS [ 1.603 s]

[INFO] uPortal WAR ........................................ SUCCESS [ 40.585 s]

[INFO] uPortal Portlets ................................... SUCCESS [ 0.500 s]

[INFO] Announcements Portlet .............................. SUCCESS [ 4.006 s]

[INFO] Bookmarks Portlet .................................. SUCCESS [ 1.567 s]

[INFO] CAS Proxy Test Portlet ............................. SUCCESS [ 0.561 s]

[INFO] Email Preview Portlet .............................. SUCCESS [ 3.622 s]

[INFO] Functional Tests Portlet ........................... SUCCESS [ 1.026 s]

[INFO] Jasig Widget Portlets .............................. SUCCESS [ 2.046 s]

[INFO] Pluto Test Suite Portlet ........................... SUCCESS [ 0.301 s]

[INFO] News Reader Portlet ................................ SUCCESS [ 3.038 s]

[INFO] Simple Content Portlet ............................. SUCCESS [ 7.179 s]

[INFO] Weather Portlet .................................... SUCCESS [ 1.532 s]

[INFO] Web Proxy Portlet .................................. SUCCESS [ 1.068 s]

[INFO] uPortal EAR ........................................ SUCCESS [ 3.855 s]

[INFO] uPortal Bootstrap Utilities ........................ SUCCESS [ 0.298 s]

[INFO] Bootstrap - HSQLDB Dependencies .................... SUCCESS [ 0.287 s]

[INFO] Bootstrap - Pluto Assembler Dependencies ........... SUCCESS [ 0.193 s]

[INFO] Bootstrap - Ant Tasks Dependencies ................. SUCCESS [ 0.256 s]

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[INFO] Total time: 01:16 min

[INFO] Finished at: 2016-10-04T13:41:35-05:00

[INFO] Final Memory: 83M/302M

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Artifact '/home/mddukes/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/uportal-ear/target/MyBU.ear' is up-to-date

[INFO] Installing /home/mddukes/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/uportal-ear/target/MyBU.ear to /home/mddukes/.m2/repository/org/jasig/portal/uportal-ear/4.0.15/uportal-ear-4.0.15.ear

extractWars=true

removeExisting=true

cleanShared=false

Oct 04, 2016 1:41:39 PM org.jasig.portal.tools.deployer.tomcat.TomcatEarDeployer extractWar

INFO: Extracting EAR entry '/home/mddukes/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/uportal-ear/target/MyBU.ear!MyBU.war' to '/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/MyBU'

BUILD FAILED

/home/mddukes/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/build.xml:634: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/mddukes/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/build.xml:1405: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/mddukes/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/build.xml:1340: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/mddukes/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/build.xml:1313: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/mddukes/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/build.xml:1316: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/mddukes/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/build.xml:1343: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/mddukes/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/build.xml:1406: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/mddukes/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/build.xml:1374: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/mddukes/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/build.xml:1409: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/home/mddukes/mybu/mybu4/TRUNK/build.xml:657: java.io.IOException: Unable to create directory /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/MyBU

at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.forceMkdir(FileUtils.java:2384)

at org.jasig.portal.tools.deployer.AbstractEarDeployer.extractWar(AbstractEarDeployer.java:313)

at org.jasig.portal.tools.deployer.tomcat.TomcatEarDeployer.deployWar(TomcatEarDeployer.java:53)

at org.jasig.portal.tools.deployer.tomcat.TomcatEarDeployer.deployWar(TomcatEarDeployer.java:23)

at org.jasig.portal.tools.deployer.AbstractEarDeployer.deployEar(AbstractEarDeployer.java:73)

When I create the directory it's asking for, I get this: