BBB VM not working on my PC

[ViniCrane]

Hi,
I tried to setup BigBlueButton Virtual Machine on my windows pc, but
when running bigblueButton, it only displayed the 'Welcome to nginx!',
without the bigbluebutton page. Could you give me some tips?

Thanks.

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Vini,

 

Hmmm... When you first booted the VM was it able to get an IP address from a DHCP server?  It needs to appear as a separate computer on your network (with its own IP address) so you can connect.  I'm thinking that it did get its own IP, as you were able to connect to it, but just want to be sure.

 

It might be that some of the packages didn't install correctly.  Can you login to the VM and enter the comm

 dpkg -l | grep bbb

 

and post back what you have. 

 

Regards,... Fred

[ViniCrane]

Hi,
I can ping the VM from another computer, and vice versa.
I enter the comm 'dpkg -l | grep bbb'
and got nothing printed
when I want to use bbb-setip -h 192.168.1.101, and and got '-bash: bbb-
setip: command not found'.

Does the VM need the ability to reach the internet when intall the
bbb? My LAN is behind a firewall and my PC can connect to the
internet but the firewall may not block the VM. Is this the point?

On Jul 3, 7:19 am, Fred Dixon <ffdi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Vini,
>
> Hmmm... When you first booted the VM was it able to get an IP address from a
> DHCP server? It needs to appear as a separate computer on your network
> (with its own IP address) so you can connect. I'm thinking that it did get
> its own IP, as you were able to connect to it, but just want to be sure.
>
> It might be that some of the packages didn't install correctly. Can you
> login to the VM and enter the comm
>
> dpkg -l | grep bbb
>
> and post back what you have.
>
> Regards,... Fred
>

[Fred Dixon]

Hi,

 

Hmm... here's what you should get

 

$ dpkg -l | grep bbb
ii  bbb-apps                          0.35.0-1ubuntu84                          Red5 applications for BigBlueButton
ii  bbb-apps-deskshare                0.4.0-1ubuntu9                            Red5 applications for BigBlueButton deskshar
ii  bbb-client                        0.35.1-1ubuntu115                         Client for BigBlueButton
ii  bbb-config                        0.4.0-1ubuntu30                           Configuration setup for BigBlueButton
ii  bbb-web                           0.35.0-1ubuntu142                         Web application for BigBlueButton

It looks like the startup script for BigBlueButton VM didn't install the packages.  Can enter the following commands

 

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install bigbluebutton

 

then try dpkg -l | grep bbb again and post the output. 

 

Regards,... Fred

[Tom]

Hi,

I got the same problem with ViniCrane. I use "$ sudo apt-get install
bigbluebutton" and get bbb installed. when i enter "$ dpkg -l | grep
bbb " in the console I got the excepted output.
Now i can see the welcome page, but when i try to click on "join" or
"schedule" which links to "http://192.168.1.133/bigbluebutton/
conference-session/joinIn/85115" I got the 404 error:

HTTP Status 404 -
type Status report
message
description The requested resource () is not available.
Apache Tomcat/6.0.18

Anyone have any idea of this problem?

On Jul 3, 8:11 pm, Fred Dixon <ffdi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hmm... here's what you should get
>
> $ dpkg -l | grep bbb
> ii  bbb-apps
> 0.35.0-1ubuntu84                          Red5 applications for
> BigBlueButton
> ii  bbb-apps-deskshare
> 0.4.0-1ubuntu9                            Red5 applications for
> BigBlueButton deskshar
> ii  bbb-client
> 0.35.1-1ubuntu115                         Client for BigBlueButton
> ii  bbb-config
> 0.4.0-1ubuntu30                           Configuration setup for
> BigBlueButton
> ii  bbb-web
> 0.35.0-1ubuntu142                         Web application for BigBlueButton
>
> It looks like the startup script for BigBlueButton VM didn't install the
> packages.  Can enter the following commands
>
>  $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get install bigbluebutton
>
> then try dpkg -l | grep bbb again and post the output.
>
> Regards,... Fred
>

[Richard Alam]

can you try rebooting your vm? Looks like tomcat hasn't started. Just
reboot to make sure all (red5, activemq, tomcat, etc.) services
starts.

R

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[Xie Yan Qing]

I have rebooted the vm for several times, and according to the error msg, the tomcat server should have been started(it's a tomcat error). The problem may be that the bbb apps are not correctly deployed.
How to manually deploy the applications to the tomcat server?

I checked the vm start up msg, the red and activemq service started successfully.

2009/7/5 Richard Alam <ritz...@gmail.com>

[Richard Alam]

I am guessing you have tried the following:
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade

It is bbb-web that gets deployed to tomcat. Can you please paste the
log in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/tomcat6/?

Thanks.

R

[Xie Yan Qing]

content of /var/log/syslog:
Jul  5 06:25:02 bbb-vm-20090704 syslogd 1.5.0#5ubuntu3: restart.
Jul  5 06:41:15 bbb-vm-20090704 -- MARK --
Jul  5 06:47:01 bbb-vm-20090704 /USR/SBIN/CRON[4023]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly ))
Jul  5 06:47:02 bbb-vm-20090704 syslogd 1.5.0#5ubuntu3: restart.
Jul  5 07:01:15 bbb-vm-20090704 -- MARK --
Jul  5 07:17:01 bbb-vm-20090704 /USR/SBIN/CRON[6114]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jul  5 07:41:15 bbb-vm-20090704 -- MARK --
Jul  5 08:01:15 bbb-vm-20090704 -- MARK --
Jul  5 08:17:01 bbb-vm-20090704 /USR/SBIN/CRON[9944]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jul  5 08:41:15 bbb-vm-20090704 -- MARK --
Jul  5 09:01:15 bbb-vm-20090704 -- MARK --
Jul  5 09:17:01 bbb-vm-20090704 /USR/SBIN/CRON[13821]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)

and the latest log files in /var/log/tomcat6/ are attached.

2009/7/5 Richard Alam <ritz...@gmail.com>

[Richard Alam]

Looks like it's tomcats security settings:

5-Jul-2009 2:39:33 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener
instance of class org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied
(java.util.PropertyPermission bigbluebutton-production-0.1 read)
at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:342)
at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:553)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:549)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPropertyAccess(SecurityManager.java:1302)
at java.lang.System.getProperty(System.java:669)
at org.springframework.web.util.WebUtils.setWebAppRootSystemProperty(WebUtils.java:144)
at org.springframework.web.util.Log4jWebConfigurer.initLogging(Log4jWebConfigurer.java:118)


Did you change tomcat to run on port 80? Should be running on 8080.

R

[Xie Yan Qing]

The tomcat is listening to port 80, but I didn't make any modification to the port config. I googled the exception and think this may according to the java security policy config.
In this thread "Create a policy file for tomcat6" it mentioned that the BigBlueButton VM runs tomcat6 with SECURITY=NO. I opened the start up script /etc/init.d/tomcat6  and found that the default security setting is set to yes. I set TOMCAT6_SECURITY=no at line 68, restart tomcat, and everything goes ok!

Thank you, Richard!

2009/7/5 Richard Alam <ritz...@gmail.com>

[Richard Alam]

hmm..i thought tomcat6 should be listening on port 8080 while nginx
listens on port 80.

Will download the vm and see.

R

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Xei,

Glad to hear you got it to work. When I check the version in my
installation, I have

firstuser@bbb-vm-20090705:~$ dpkg -l | grep bbb
ii bbb-apps
0.35.0-1ubuntu86 Red5 applications for
BigBlueButton
ii bbb-apps-deskshare
0.4.0-1ubuntu11 Red5 applications for
BigBlueButton deskshar
ii bbb-client
0.35.1-1ubuntu116 Client for BigBlueButton

ii bbb-config
0.4.0-1ubuntu30 Configuration setup for
BigBlueButton
ii bbb-web

0.35.0-1ubuntu143 Web application for
BigBlueButton

Can you run the above command and post the results -- I'd like to
ensure that all the latest version installed.

Note: The bbb-apps-deskshare is currently under development and will
be updated shortly. If you restart your red5 server, the initial
restart will FAIL. Just wait one minute and restart again. This is
logged and will be fixed shortly. See http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/issues/detail?id=90.

The setting of SECRUITY=no in /etc/tomcat6/server.xml should be done
automatically by installation of bbb-web. Just curious, when you
first started the VM, did you use VMWare Player? If so, do you recall
if at the end of the first boot the screen looked like

http://bigbluebutton.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/bbb-images/vm/vm_boot.png

Did you have to manually install bigbluebutton after the VM first
started?

Glad to hear you got it running!

Regards,... Fred

On Jul 5, 11:15 am, Richard Alam <ritza...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hmm..i thought tomcat6 should be listening on port 8080 while nginx
> listens on port 80.
>
> Will download the vm and see.
>
> R
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Xie Yan Qing<qing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The tomcat is listening to port 80, but I didn't make any modification to
> > the port config. I googled the exception and think this may according to the
> > java security policy config.
> > In this thread "Create a policy file for tomcat6" it mentioned that the
> > BigBlueButton VM runs tomcat6 with SECURITY=NO. I opened the start up script
> > /etc/init.d/tomcat6  and found that the default security setting is set to
> > yes. I set TOMCAT6_SECURITY=no at line 68, restart tomcat, and everything
> > goes ok!
>
> > Thank you, Richard!
>

> > 2009/7/5 Richard Alam <ritza...@gmail.com>

>
> >> Looks like it's tomcats security settings:
>
> >> 5-Jul-2009 2:39:33 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext
> >> listenerStart
> >> SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener
> >> instance of class org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener
> >> java.security.AccessControlException: access denied
> >> (java.util.PropertyPermission bigbluebutton-production-0.1 read)
> >>        at

> >> java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.jav a:342)

> >>        at
> >> java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:553)
> >>        at
> >> java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:549)
> >>        at
> >> java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPropertyAccess(SecurityManager.java:1302)
> >>        at java.lang.System.getProperty(System.java:669)
> >>        at
> >> org.springframework.web.util.WebUtils.setWebAppRootSystemProperty(WebUtils. java:144)
> >>        at

> >> org.springframework.web.util.Log4jWebConfigurer.initLogging(Log4jWebConfigu rer.java:118)

>
> >> Did you change tomcat to run on port 80? Should be running on 8080.
>
> >> R
>

> >> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Xie Yan Qing<qing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > content of /var/log/syslog:
> >> > Jul  5 06:25:02 bbb-vm-20090704 syslogd 1.5.0#5ubuntu3: restart.
> >> > Jul  5 06:41:15 bbb-vm-20090704 -- MARK --
> >> > Jul  5 06:47:01 bbb-vm-20090704 /USR/SBIN/CRON[4023]: (root) CMD (test
> >> > -x
> >> > /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly ))
> >> > Jul  5 06:47:02 bbb-vm-20090704 syslogd 1.5.0#5ubuntu3: restart.
> >> > Jul  5 07:01:15 bbb-vm-20090704 -- MARK --
> >> > Jul  5 07:17:01 bbb-vm-20090704 /USR/SBIN/CRON[6114]: (root) CMD (   cd
> >> > / &&
> >> > run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
> >> > Jul  5 07:41:15 bbb-vm-20090704 -- MARK --
> >> > Jul  5 08:01:15 bbb-vm-20090704 -- MARK --
> >> > Jul  5 08:17:01 bbb-vm-20090704 /USR/SBIN/CRON[9944]: (root) CMD (   cd
> >> > / &&
> >> > run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
> >> > Jul  5 08:41:15 bbb-vm-20090704 -- MARK --
> >> > Jul  5 09:01:15 bbb-vm-20090704 -- MARK --
> >> > Jul  5 09:17:01 bbb-vm-20090704 /USR/SBIN/CRON[13821]: (root) CMD (   cd
> >> > /
> >> > && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
>
> >> > and the latest log files in /var/log/tomcat6/ are attached.
>

> >> > 2009/7/5 Richard Alam <ritza...@gmail.com>

>
> >> >> I am guessing you have tried the following:
> >> >> > apt-get update
> >> >> > apt-get upgrade
>
> >> >> It is bbb-web that gets deployed to tomcat. Can you please paste the
> >> >> log in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/tomcat6/?
>
> >> >> Thanks.
>
> >> >> R
>

> >> >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Xie Yan Qing<qing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> > I have rebooted the vm for several times, and according to the error
> >> >> > msg,
> >> >> > the tomcat server should have been started(it's a tomcat error). The
> >> >> > problem
> >> >> > may be that the bbb apps are not correctly deployed.
> >> >> > How to manually deploy the applications to the tomcat server?
>
> >> >> > I checked the vm start up msg, the red and activemq service started
> >> >> > successfully.
>

> >> >> > 2009/7/5 Richard Alam <ritza...@gmail.com>

>
> >> >> >> can you try rebooting your vm? Looks like tomcat hasn't started.
> >> >> >> Just
> >> >> >> reboot to make sure all (red5, activemq, tomcat, etc.) services
> >> >> >> starts.
>
> >> >> >> R
>

[Xie Yan Qing]

Hi,Fred,

here is my output in my vm,
firstuser@bbb-vm-20090704:~$ dpkg -l | grep bbb
ii  bbb-apps-deskshare                0.4.0-1ubuntu11                           Red5 applications for BigBlueButton deskshar
ii  bbb-config                        0.4.0-1ubuntu30                           Configuration setup for BigBlueButton

It's strange that when i type in the same command yesterday, i got all other packages. While now i just get the two. But the applications run just fine. I can login, share video, chat, etc.

I am using a VMware Workstation to play the vm. The first time when i open the vm, the bbb-xxx applications are not installed as excepted (and the openssh-server). I installed the bbb-xxx applications manually by "$ sudo apt-get install bigbluebutton".

2009/7/6 Fred Dixon <ffd...@gmail.com>

[Jincy Jose]

hi

when i try BBB on my desktop pc, server is  not connecting but in my laptop its working fine.Does anyone knows the reason?

[HostBBB.com]

Jincy, you just commented on a 2009 thread? Not sure what version you
are using today, and the exact problem.
We need some more details to help you troubleshoot.

regards,
Stephen