subsonic won't load - localhost/subsonic/ gives BIG error

[neill]

hi

i'm using
SuSE 10
JRE 1.5.0_06
Tomcat 5.5.17

i can run tomcat - localhost:9000 (in my case) gives me the normal tomcat hello page

when i go to localhost:9000/subsonic i get a 500 error page with a ream of text which may as well be in Latin !!

i attach a cut&paste of the error page

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error starts here

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ype Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet subsonic threw exception
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

root cause

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Error 'Class that bean class [net.sourceforge.subsonic.service.ServiceFactory] depends on not found' in resource 'ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/subsonic-servlet.xml]' at:
Bean 'searchService'; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.FailFastProblemReporter.error(FailFastProblemReporter.java:46)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:69)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionParserHelper.error(XmlBeanDefinitionParserHelper.java:1117)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionParserHelper.parseBeanDefinitionElement(XmlBeanDefinitionParserHelper.java:497)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionParserHelper.parseBeanDefinitionElement(XmlBeanDefinitionParserHelper.java:373)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseDefaultElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:162)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:143)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:87)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:509)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:353)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:277)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:129)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:145)
org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:126)
org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:89)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:279)
org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:155)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:308)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:252)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:221)
org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:114)
javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:211)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

root cause

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:163)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.createBeanDefinition(BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.java:65)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionParserHelper.parseBeanDefinitionElement(XmlBeanDefinitionParserHelper.java:411)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionParserHelper.parseBeanDefinitionElement(XmlBeanDefinitionParserHelper.java:373)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseDefaultElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:162)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:143)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:87)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:509)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:353)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:277)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:129)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:145)
org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:126)
org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:89)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:279)
org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:155)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:308)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:252)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:221)
org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:114)
javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:211)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

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stopping/restarting tomcat and reloading subsonic doesn't help

i'm also running gallery2 on XAMPP if that matters (hence :9000 for tomcat)

can anyone help?

thanks

neill

[sindre_mehus]

Hi Neill,

This looks familiar to http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64
Please make sure that the user running Tomcat has the necessary permissions.

Sindre

[neill]

i'll look into that tonight and report back ASAP

thanks

neill

[neill]

absolutely right - changing permissions on /var sorted it out

in fairness that's exactly what it says on the install instructions - so my bad for not reading them first

thanks for such a great piece of soft

neill