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Unable to start ColdFusion...

Oct 29, 2009 7:55 PM

(I hope the only answer to this problem will not be a virus and the need to re-build my PC!)

Unable to access CF as localhost (both a website I wrote which had been working fine and http://localhost:8500/cfide/administrator), I checked out the Start Menu and sure enough, CF was being instructed to load a boot time. So I uninstalled CF8 and tried to install CF9, un-checking the parts about searching capabilities (Verity, etc.). I believe it claimed to install okay, but then my virus software, AVG, claimed that a CF program was... *malware*! I didn't have the common sense to write down the full pathname, but JRUN was somewhere in that pathname. So I completely uninstalled my Java, and reinstalled the latest version of Java from the java.com website. (In the interim, Firefox told me its new version was incompatible with the installed version of Flash Player and I better update that, attempted to do so, and on the first attempt, was told that "the download did not pass the integrity check", but it succeeded when I tried the second time.) But finally, with the latest version of Java installed, and went back to the task of installing CF9...

After first uninstalling the earlier install of CF9, I undertook the process again (from a saved copy of the .exe by the way, and will all other windows closed). This time I went with all the defaults (built-in server, search capabilities, remote capabilities). At length, I was told "You have successfully completed the first step" and "Now launch the Configuration Wizard in the default browser" (not exact quotes, but close). When I attempted to do so (by clicking Done, since the checkbox for launching the Configuration Wizard was checked), I received the message: "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1."

In other words, after all of the above, I'm back at square one. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I should try next?

Thanks for your help.

Peyton

Message was edited by: PeytonT: Now 3 hours later, I have completed a full scan of the computer (685,000) files, and no infections were found - just 82 'warnings', all of them tracking cookies. But entering the url "127.0.0.1/cfide/administrator" (without the quotes of course) still returns nothing.

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1. PeytonT,

Oct 30, 2009 6:48 AM in reply to PeytonT

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NEW AND POSSIBLY RELEVANT INFORMATION: This morning when I booted up my computer, the AVG security program presented me with the following message:

"Identity protection: Malware detected: C:\COLDFUSION\JNBRIDGE\JNBDOTNETSIDE.EXE"

Could this be true? Has someone compromised the ColdFusion code? Or is AVG simply mistaken?

Keep in mind that I have a clean install of ColdFusion 9, Developer Edition, done just last night.

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2. mgw4jc,

Oct 30, 2009 7:28 AM in reply to PeytonT

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I doubt the CF code has a virus. Try disabling AVG and see if CF will start up. You may need to somehow allow or unblock the service in question.

And just as a side not, something that used to get me when installing CF was the permissions. Make sure the service is starting under an account with sufficient permissions, though I'm not sure what those are.

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3. BKBK,

Nov 1, 2009 1:20 AM in reply to PeytonT

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entering the url "127.0.0.1/cfide/administrator" (without the quotes of course) still returns nothing.
My guess is that the CF9 installer saw the port 8500 as still registered with the old CF8, and defaulted to port 8501. So, try

http://127.0.0.1:8501/CFIDE/administrator

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4. PeytonT,

Nov 3, 2009 2:12 PM in reply to BKBK

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Well, guys, here's an update. The virus protection company assured me they were mistaken in claiming that JRUN has a virus. I had already decided to trust it by then, placed JRUN on the 'trusted' list, and succeeded in installing ColdFusion 9, after which I was able to get to my website (localhost). Now, a few days later, it has suddenly stopped working again for no reason I can fathom. Whenever I try to go to http://localhost:8080/cfide/administrator, I get the message "The Macromedia application server(s) are unreachable". Same story, needless to say, when I try to go to my site.

I have always used port 8080 since I'm a connected to a router and evidently port 80 is occupied. For whatever reason it doesn't work, so 8080 is the port I've been using for over a year; it has always worked until my recent difficulties, and it was working just a few days ago after the installation of ColdFusion 9. Now it does not work. 8500 also does not work, nor does 8501. And the issue cannot be one of permissions since nothing that I know of changed in that regard in a very long time.

Other ideas?

Right now, I suppose I'll just reinstall again...

Peyton

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5. Adam Cameron.,

Nov 3, 2009 2:13 PM in reply to PeytonT

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6. PeytonT,

Nov 3, 2009 3:59 PM in reply to PeytonT

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Well, I reinstalled ColdFusion 9, and now the site is working again - via port 8080 as before. I looked in jrun.xml, and apparently the port for localhost is 2506. At least it's true that immediately after the attribute with the value 'localhost' we find the attribute 'port' with the value '2506'. For whatever reason, however, if I try to go to the site via 2506 it just keeps trying forever (several minutes as of this post) and never gets there.

Finally, I gave up and tried again with port 8080 and it went there immediately. Could this have anything to do with the fact that it had just gone there on port 8080 several minutes earlier, so the port superseded 2506 in some way?

I'll try 2506 after re-booting tomorrow.

I still don't know why it stopped working several days ago under CF8 (though. 'tis true, at that time it had been weeks since in had been accessed)...

   then started working again after a clean install of CF9 (and was still working as of Oct. 31)...

   then mysteriously was not working today ...

   then started working again right after the clean install of CF9 I performed this evening...

Peyton

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7. Adam Cameron.,

Nov 3, 2009 4:15 PM in reply to PeytonT

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8. BKBK,

Nov 4, 2009 12:16 PM in reply to PeytonT

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During installation, you perhaps inadvertently configured Coldfusion to use a webserver other that its own inbuilt JRun webserver. Apache, perhaps? The built-in webserver runs by default on port 8500, Apache on 80.

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9. PeytonT,

Nov 4, 2009 12:26 PM in reply to Adam Cameron.

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Would you believe that now, less than 24 hours after my site was working again yesterday right after the clean install of ColdFusion 9, it has suddenly stopped working yet again? Yep, once again I'm getting the message "A server error has occurred... The Macromedia application servers are unreachable". Is there a log somewhere where I can find more information about what caused this error?

As to what port it's listening on per jnr.xml, c:\Coldfusion9\runtime\servers\admin\SERVER-INF has port 8000 for jrun.servlet.http.WebService. The one in c:\Coldfusion9\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF is port 8500. Since a comment there calls this "the built-in Jrun web server', does that mean I should have chosen the built-in server instead of 'all IIS sites' when in installed ColdFusion 9 yesterday?

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10. PeytonT,

Nov 4, 2009 12:32 PM in reply to BKBK

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Okay, it won't kill me to install it yet again, this time choosing the built-in web server. But if that's the nature of the problem, how come it was working fine yesterday right after the install and isn't working now?

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11. Adam Cameron.,

Nov 4, 2009 12:45 PM in reply to PeytonT

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12. BKBK,

Nov 4, 2009 12:58 PM in reply to PeytonT

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'all IIS sites' when in installed ColdFusion 9 yesterday
Ah, of course, port 8080. I do believe its best to install Coldfusion to first use the built-in webserver, and then use the Web Server Configuration Tool later to add a web server like IIS.

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13. BKBK,

Nov 4, 2009 1:04 PM in reply to PeytonT

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once again I'm getting the message "A server error has occurred... The Macromedia application servers are unreachable". Is there a log somewhere where I can find more information about what caused this error?

C:\ColdFusion9\logs\exception.log and C:\ColdFusion9\logs\server.log

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14. PeytonT,

Nov 4, 2009 7:58 PM in reply to BKBK

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I'm going to try an install with the built-in server soon (I have been electing IIS), although I may also try another intall like those I've been doing, and reboot to see if cf goes bad right after a re-boot. Meanwhile, BKBK, I present the contents of the server log. (It did not really bomb on 'verity': For the most recent install I unchecked verity and solr... not sure what archive or document refer to.) Do you see anything promising?

Adam, what should I look for to see if cf services is running? In the 'Processes' tab of Task Manager? If so, I find nothing which starts with the letters 'cf', neither on the PC where CF does not run, nor on another PC where it does run (unfortunately I can't develop in CF on that PC at the moment since I have not been able to get the latest ODBC driver for a certain database from Microsoft). Interestingly, though, on the PC where CF does run, I find jrun.exe in the list of processes in task manager, and jrunsvc.exe as well, while neither of them is present in the PC where CF does not run. Moreover, they are already shown as loaded in task manager after a reboot of the PC where CF does run, even before I attempt to access CF. I provide the jrun logs (coldfusion-event.log and coldfusion-out.log) for yesterday and today after the second set of double lines below. I don't see anything on 11/03 (the successful day) vs. 11/04 (the failure day) which would explain the problem... I will try to reinstall Java, but I did so just this morning when they announced an update. But I can do it again...
====================================================================== ========
Below is the server log for the successful run yesterday (11/03/05) and failure to run today (11/04/09). There was no 11/04/09 date in the exception log.
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:54:58",,"Starting logging..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:54:58",,"Starting license..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:02",,"Invalid ColdFusion 9 license."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:02",,"Invalid ColdFusion 9 license."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:02",,"Developer Edition enabled"
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:02",,"Starting crypto..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:02",,"Installed JSafe JCE provider: Version 3.6 RSA Security Inc. Crypto-J JCE Security Provider (implements RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, AES, DES, Triple DES, DESX, RC2, RC4, RC5, PBE, MD2, MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, HMAC-MD5, HMAC-RIPEMD160, HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA224, HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA384, HMAC-SHA512)"
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:02",,"Starting security..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:06",,"Starting scheduler..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:06",,"Starting WatchService..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:07",,"Starting debugging..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:07",,"Starting sql..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:07",,"Starting mail..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:07",,"Starting runtime..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:08",,"CORBA Configuration not enabled"
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:08",,"Starting cron..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:08",,"Starting registry..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:08",,"Starting client..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:09",,"Starting xmlrpc..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:09",,"Starting graphing..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:10",,"Starting verity..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:10",,"Starting solr..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:10",,"Starting archive..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:10",,"Starting document..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:10",,"Starting eventgateway..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:11",,"Starting FlexAssembler..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:11",,"Starting .NET..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:12",,"Starting Monitoring..."
"Information","main","11/03/09","17:55:13",,"ColdFusion started"
"Information","jrpp-0","11/03/09","18:30:36",,"Pool Manager Started"
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:46:56",,"Starting logging..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:46:57",,"Starting license..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:33",,"Invalid ColdFusion 9 license."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:33",,"Invalid ColdFusion 9 license."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:33",,"Developer Edition enabled"
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:36",,"Starting crypto..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:36",,"Installed JSafe JCE provider: Version 3.6 RSA Security Inc. Crypto-J JCE Security Provider (implements RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, AES, DES, Triple DES, DESX, RC2, RC4, RC5, PBE, MD2, MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, HMAC-MD5, HMAC-RIPEMD160, HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA224, HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA384, HMAC-SHA512)"
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:36",,"Starting security..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:37",,"Starting scheduler..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:37",,"Starting WatchService..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:37",,"Starting debugging..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:38",,"Starting sql..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:39",,"Pool Manager Started"
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:39",,"Starting mail..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:40",,"Starting runtime..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:46",,"CORBA Configuration not enabled"
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:46",,"Starting cron..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:46",,"Starting registry..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:48",,"Starting client..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:53",,"Starting xmlrpc..."
"Information","main","11/04/09","09:47:58",,"Starting graphing..."
====================================================================== =======
coldfusion-event.log
# Created by JRun on 11/03 17:54:46
11/03 17:54:46 info No JDBC data sources have been configured for this server (see jrun-resources.xml)
11/03 17:54:46 info Deploying enterprise application "Adobe_ColdFusion_9" from: file:/C:/ColdFusion9/
11/03 17:54:47 info Deploying web application "Adobe ColdFusion 9" from: file:/C:/ColdFusion9/
11/03 17:54:55 user JSPServlet: init
11/03 17:54:56 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: init
11/03 17:54:56 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: Starting application services
11/03 17:54:56 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: VM version = 14.0-b16
11/03 17:55:13 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: application services are now available
11/03 17:55:13 user CFMxmlServlet: init
11/03 17:55:13 user CFMxmlServlet: Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
11/03 17:55:19 user CFSwfServlet: init
11/03 17:55:19 user CFCServlet: init
11/03 17:55:24 user FlashGateway: init
11/03 17:55:26 user MessageBrokerServlet: init
11/03 17:55:31 user CFFormGateway: init
11/03 17:55:31 user CFInternalServlet: init
11/03 17:55:31 user WSRPProducer: init
11/03 17:55:32 user ServerCFCServlet: init
11/03 17:55:43 info JRun Proxy Server listening on *:51800
11/04 09:45:33 info No JDBC data sources have been configured for this server (see jrun-resources.xml)
11/04 09:45:34 info JRun Proxy Server listening on *:51800
11/04 09:45:34 info Deploying enterprise application "Adobe_ColdFusion_9" from: file:/C:/ColdFusion9/
11/04 09:45:35 info Deploying web application "Adobe ColdFusion 9" from: file:/C:/ColdFusion9/
11/04 09:46:38 user JSPServlet: init
11/04 09:46:48 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: init
11/04 09:46:48 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: Starting application services
11/04 09:46:48 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: VM version = 14.0-b16

coldfusion-out.log
Starting Macromedia JRun 4.0 (Build 108795), coldfusion server
These changes should get picked up!
11/03 17:54:41 warning Unable to open C:\ColdFusion9\runtime/lib/license.properties
11/03 17:54:43 info JRun Naming Service listening on *:2932
11/03 17:54:46 info No JDBC data sources have been configured for this server (see jrun-resources.xml)
11/03 17:54:46 info Deploying enterprise application "Adobe_ColdFusion_9" from: file:/C:/ColdFusion9/
11/03 17:54:47 info Deploying web application "Adobe ColdFusion 9" from: file:/C:/ColdFusion9/
11/03 17:54:54 INFO License Service: Flex 1.5 CF Edition enabled
11/03 17:54:54 INFO Starting Flex 1.5 CF Edition
11/03 17:54:55 user JSPServlet: init
11/03 17:54:56 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: init
11/03 17:54:56 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: Starting application services
11/03 17:54:56 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: VM version = 14.0-b16
11/03 17:54:58 Information [main] - Starting logging...
11/03 17:54:58 Information [main] - Starting license...
11/03 17:55:02 Information [main] - Invalid ColdFusion 9 license.
11/03 17:55:02 Information [main] - Invalid ColdFusion 9 license.
11/03 17:55:02 Information [main] - Developer Edition enabled
These changes should get picked up!
11/03 17:55:02 Information [main] - Starting crypto...
11/03 17:55:02 Information [main] - Installed JSafe JCE provider: Version 3.6 RSA Security Inc. Crypto-J JCE Security Provider (implements RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, AES, DES, Triple DES, DESX, RC2, RC4, RC5, PBE, MD2, MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, HMAC-MD5, HMAC-RIPEMD160, HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA224, HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA384, HMAC-SHA512)
11/03 17:55:02 Information [main] - Starting security...
11/03 17:55:06 Information [main] - Starting scheduler...
11/03 17:55:06 Information [main] - Starting WatchService...
11/03 17:55:07 Information [main] - Starting debugging...
11/03 17:55:07 Information [main] - Starting sql...
11/03 17:55:07 Information [main] - Starting mail...
11/03 17:55:07 Information [main] - Starting runtime...
11/03 17:55:08 [main] INFO Using "C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\vfs_cache" as temporary files store.
11/03 17:55:08 [main] INFO Using "C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\vfs_cache" as temporary files store.
11/03 17:55:08 Information [main] - CORBA Configuration not enabled
11/03 17:55:08 Information [main] - Starting cron...
11/03 17:55:08 Information [main] - Starting registry...
11/03 17:55:08 Information [main] - Starting client...
11/03 17:55:09 Information [main] - Starting xmlrpc...
11/03 17:55:09 Information [main] - Starting graphing...
11/03 17:55:10 Information [main] - Starting verity...
11/03 17:55:10 Information [main] - Starting solr...
11/03 17:55:10 Information [main] - Starting archive...
11/03 17:55:10 Information [main] - Starting document...
11/03 17:55:10 Information [main] - Starting eventgateway...
11/03 17:55:11 Information [main] - Starting Event Backend Handlers.
11/03 17:55:11 Information [main] - Initialized EventRequestDispatcher with a Thread Pool size of 1.
11/03 17:55:11 Information [main] - Initializing EventRequestHandler
11/03 17:55:11 Information [main] - Starting Event Gateways.
11/03 17:55:11 Information [main] - Starting FlexAssembler...
11/03 17:55:11 Information [main] - Starting .NET...
11/03 17:55:12 Information [main] - Starting Monitoring...
11/03 17:55:13 Information [main] - ColdFusion started
11/03 17:55:13 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: application services are now available
11/03 17:55:13 user CFMxmlServlet: init
11/03 17:55:13 user CFMxmlServlet: Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
11/03 17:55:13 INFO Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
11/03 17:55:19 user CFSwfServlet: init
11/03 17:55:19 user CFCServlet: init
11/03 17:55:24 user FlashGateway: init
11/03 17:55:26 user MessageBrokerServlet: init
11/03 17:55:31 user CFFormGateway: init
11/03 17:55:31 user CFInternalServlet: init
11/03 17:55:31 user WSRPProducer: init
11/03 17:55:32 user ServerCFCServlet: init
Server coldfusion ready (startup time: 58 seconds)
11/03 17:55:43 info JRun Proxy Server listening on *:51800
11/03 18:25:42 Information [jrpp-1] - C:\ColdFusion9\logs\application.log initialized
11/03 18:25:42 Error [jrpp-1] - Datasource ReporterData could not be found. The specific sequence of files included or processed is: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Reporters\ReporterLogin.cfm, line: 7
11/03 18:25:42 [] -
11/03 18:30:36 Information [jrpp-0] - Pool Manager Started
SLF4J: This version of SLF4J requires log4j version 1.2.12 or later. See also http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#log4j_version
11/03 18:30:49 [jrpp-0] INFO I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection refused: connect
11/03 18:30:49 [jrpp-0] INFO Retrying request
11/03 18:30:50 [jrpp-0] INFO I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection refused: connect
11/03 18:30:50 [jrpp-0] INFO Retrying request
11/03 18:30:51 [jrpp-0] INFO I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection refused: connect
11/03 18:30:51 [jrpp-0] INFO Retrying request
11/03 18:33:05 Information [jrpp-1] - C:\ColdFusion9\logs\migration.log initialized
11/03 18:33:05 Error [jrpp-1] - Could not unzip and deploy cfadmin help. - The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: CFLOOP
11/03 18:33:08 Error [jrpp-1] - The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: cfoutput The specific sequence of files included or processed is: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\index.cfm, line: 232
11/03 18:33:30 Error [jrpp-2] - Could not install the Getting Started Experience and Example Applications - The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: CFLOOP
11/03 18:33:30 Error [jrpp-2] - The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: cfoutput The specific sequence of files included or processed is: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\index.cfm, line: 232
11/03 19:02:08 Information [scheduler-0] - Run Client Storage Purge
11/03 20:09:08 Information [scheduler-0] - Run Client Storage Purge
11/03 21:16:08 Information [scheduler-2] - Run Client Storage Purge
Starting Macromedia JRun 4.0 (Build 108795), coldfusion server
These changes should get picked up!
11/04 09:45:08 warning Unable to open C:\ColdFusion9\runtime/lib/license.properties
11/04 09:45:18 info JRun Naming Service listening on *:2932
11/04 09:45:33 info No JDBC data sources have been configured for this server (see jrun-resources.xml)
11/04 09:45:34 info JRun Proxy Server listening on *:51800
11/04 09:45:34 info Deploying enterprise application "Adobe_ColdFusion_9" from: file:/C:/ColdFusion9/
11/04 09:45:35 info Deploying web application "Adobe ColdFusion 9" from: file:/C:/ColdFusion9/
11/04 09:46:34 INFO License Service: Flex 1.5 CF Edition enabled
11/04 09:46:35 INFO Starting Flex 1.5 CF Edition
11/04 09:46:38 user JSPServlet: init
11/04 09:46:48 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: init
11/04 09:46:48 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: Starting application services
11/04 09:46:48 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: VM version = 14.0-b16
11/04 09:46:56 Information [main] - Starting logging...
11/04 09:46:57 Information [main] - Starting license...
11/04 09:47:33 Information [main] - Invalid ColdFusion 9 license.
11/04 09:47:33 Information [main] - Invalid ColdFusion 9 license.
11/04 09:47:33 Information [main] - Developer Edition enabled
These changes should get picked up!
11/04 09:47:36 Information [main] - Starting crypto...
11/04 09:47:36 Information [main] - Installed JSafe JCE provider: Version 3.6 RSA Security Inc. Crypto-J JCE Security Provider (implements RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, AES, DES, Triple DES, DESX, RC2, RC4, RC5, PBE, MD2, MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, HMAC-MD5, HMAC-RIPEMD160, HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA224, HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA384, HMAC-SHA512)
11/04 09:47:36 Information [main] - Starting security...
11/04 09:47:37 Information [main] - Starting scheduler...
11/04 09:47:37 Information [main] - Starting WatchService...
11/04 09:47:37 Information [main] - Starting debugging...
11/04 09:47:38 Information [main] - Starting sql...
11/04 09:47:39 Information [main] - Pool Manager Started
11/04 09:47:39 Information [main] - Starting mail...
11/04 09:47:40 Information [main] - Starting runtime...
11/04 09:47:41 [main] INFO Using "C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\vfs_cache" as temporary files store.
11/04 09:47:46 [main] INFO Using "C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\vfs_cache" as temporary files store.
11/04 09:47:46 Information [main] - CORBA Configuration not enabled
11/04 09:47:46 Information [main] - Starting cron...
11/04 09:47:46 Information [main] - Starting registry...
11/04 09:47:48 Information [main] - Starting client...
11/04 09:47:53 Information [main] - Starting xmlrpc...
11/04 09:47:58 Information [main] - Starting graphing...

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15. BKBK,

Nov 4, 2009 9:14 PM in reply to PeytonT

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As Coldfusion's logs show nothing, the problem is therefore with IIS. Restart IIS.

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Nov 4, 2009 11:59 PM in reply to BKBK

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As Coldfusion's logs show nothing, the problem is therefore with IIS. Restart IIS.

Not necessarily true. If JRun had sufficient trouble starting CF that CF didn't bootstrap at all, there'll be nothing in the CF logs because to get entries into there, CF needs to have at least partially started (enough to log problems). Hence my suggestion to check the JRun logs.

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17. Adam Cameron.,

Nov 5, 2009 12:08 AM in reply to PeytonT

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Adam, what should I look for to see if cf services is running? In the 'Processes' tab of Task Manager? If so, I find nothing which starts with the letters 'cf', neither on the PC where CF does not run, nor on another PC where it does run (unfortunately I can't develop in CF on that PC at the moment since I have not been able to get the latest ODBC driver for a certain database from Microsoft). Interestingly, though, on the PC where CF does run, I find jrun.exe in the list of processes in task manager, and jrunsvc.exe as well, while neither of them is present in the PC where CF does not run. Moreover, they are already shown as loaded in task manager after a reboot of the PC where CF does run, even before I attempt to access CF. I provide the jrun logs (coldfusion-event.log and coldfusion-out.log) for yesterday and today after the second set of double lines below. I don't see anything on 11/03 (the successful day) vs. 11/04 (the failure day) which would explain the problem... I will try to reinstall Java, but I did so just this morning when they announced an update. But I can do it again...

Either Task Manager or just in Windows Services. In Windows Services it'll be fairly obvious, but in Task Manager as you've discovered the actual Windows application that runs is JRun, not CF. CF is a Java app, so runs atop of JRun (by default). The JRun.exe app is the business end of things, JRunSvc.exe is the Windows service wrapper for it (or something along those lines...).

I had a look @ those JRun logs you posted and nothing leapt out at me. Usually if something dire has happened, there'll be a thumping great error as the last entry.

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18. itisdesign,

Nov 5, 2009 2:45 AM in reply to PeytonT

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Hi Peyton,

I had a problem where antivirus prevented wsconfig.exe from properly configuring IIS during, and after, CF install (even when antivirus was disabled - I had to shut antivirus down totally during CF install, or while running wsconfig.exe).

Are both machines running the same OS and antivirus (same antivirus version and virus definitions)? Could you install CF w/ the antivirus shut down (not just disabled, but totally shut down - and also configure the antivirus to not automatically run at system startup)? Then restart the machine (as you mentioned you would try?) and see if there is still a problem?

This may not be it, but just thought I'd add that note here - since I ran into somewhat-related issues.

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19. PeytonT,

Nov 5, 2009 5:46 AM in reply to itisdesign

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Thanks, everyone for the replies so far. And Adam, where can I find Windows Services to see if I find ColdFusion loaded there?

After my most recent post, I did re-install java, but that didn't help. So next I re-installed CF9 (still just for IIS, not yet the built-in server, since I wanted to pursue the question whether it would fail only after reboot). As expected, after the new installation of CF9 everything was working again. And now this morning, after re-booting (and before trying to access CF), I looked in Task Manager (TM) and found neither hide nor hair of JRUN.EXE or JRUNSVC.EXE, although as I said, both can be found in TM on the PC where CF does run. I then attempted to access CF (localhost:8080/cfide/administrator - the port which always works on this PC), and I got the usual message: "Server Error. The Macromedia application server(s) are unreachable". Again I saw nothing of note in the logs, and of course, still no JRUN.EXE or JRUNSVC.EXE in TM.

Next I proceeded to load JRUN.EXE myself simply by double-clicking it in its directory. It did appear in TM, although its console-like window contained the worrisome message "No JNDI properties file was found in samples SERVER-INF directory. The Jrun kernel requires JNDI information". (I don't know what JNDI is, but there it was.) (A JRUN launcher dialog also appeared, of which more later.) Next I double-clicked JRUNSVC.EXE, which opened a (console-like) window warning that it would require several seconds to load. But then that window simply closed. Gone. And no JRUNSVC.EXE in TM.

Now back to the JRUN launcher dialog, I instructed it to Start CF, whereupon it reported success - and correctly so, since localhost:8080/cfide/administrator is now working, and so is my application. Should I conclude that JRUNSVC.EXE is not needed? What does it do?

Another worrisome issue: TM now shows two instances of JRUN.EXE, one of them taking up a lot of memory (158K), the other not (21K). Why? Is that a problem?

And how can I fix it so JRUN loads automatically on bootup, as happens on my other PC? I seem to remember that there's a directory somewhere where you can drag stuff you want to start right away. I'll search the Windows directory, but right now I want to get this post off before some catastrophe like the power going off and me losing all I just wrote.

One other thing I may not have mentioned: The first time I attempted to install CF9 (after my app stopped working on it own in CF8, though it had been fine on its most recent invocation a few weeks earlier), my virus program complained during the installation that JRUN was malware. I accepted the option to quarantine it (what else could I do with a potential danger?), but then I decided to move it to the trusted category, a decision later approved by the virus program (AVG), who admitted their error to me. But just maybe my current problems *could* be a lingering result of that event? I find no mention in their interface of JRUNSVC.EXE as being blocked, and don't remember if it was also accused of being malware...

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20. BKBK,

Nov 5, 2009 10:56 AM in reply to Adam Cameron.

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Not necessarily true. If JRun had sufficient trouble starting CF that CF didn't bootstrap at all, there'll be nothing in the CF logs because to get entries into there, CF needs to have at least partially started (enough to log problems). Hence my suggestion to check the JRun logs.
Again, the trouble is most likely caused by IIS. I don't expect a clean server log, like the one above, when there are JRun problems.

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21. Adam Cameron.,

Nov 5, 2009 11:39 AM in reply to BKBK

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22. BKBK,

Nov 6, 2009 2:44 AM in reply to PeytonT

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Rest/Restart IIS unless, of course, you've decided to use Coldfusion's in-built web server.

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23. PeytonT,

Nov 6, 2009 1:12 PM in reply to BKBK

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I'll be glad to rest/restart IIS, but I don't know how. Looking in Task Manager, all I see is the ability to 'End Process'. So should I do that, then simply double-click on inetinfo.exe from its location on my disk drive? Or can that be done through Windows Services? But how do I open Windows Services?

Meanwhile, the weird behaviors continue. After both jrun and jrunsvc had failed several times to load automatically, I loaded jrun manually but could load jrunsvc manually since its window would open for a while, then close, but jrunsvc would never add successfully). Nevertheless, even without jrunsvc running, I was able to start ColdFusion 9 and run my app (including its third page - a point relevant in a moment).

Then the next time I booted up, BOTH jrun AND jrunsvc were loaded automatically for the first time in ages, sitting there in the Task Manager as though there never had never been any problem. (But it is hard to see how loading just one of them manually and entering my app could have caused that on the next boot.) However, when I went to my app, it went to the first two pages fine, then for no apparent reason, it wouldn't load page 3, giving a ColdFusion error this time (the usual blue and gray screen), which I resolved to investigage today even though no recent changes by me seemed relevant.

Now today the next time I booted up, neither jrun or jrunsvc loaded automatically, even though they had loaded automatically yesterday. So again I manually loaded jrun, and tried unsuccessfully to load jrunsvc just as before. However, this time ColdFusion failed to start successfully (via the Jrun launcher, as before). I was advised to look at the logs, and found the listings below, some of which look fine. The times of day don't quite gibe with each other... I may be confusing two runs done this day since I have other things going on at the same time...

Last few lines of server.log
"Information","main","11/06/09","15:15:54",,"Starting solr..."
"Information","main","11/06/09","15:15:54",,"Starting archive..."
"Information","main","11/06/09","15:15:54",,"Starting document..."
"Information","main","11/06/09","15:15:55",,"Starting eventgateway..."
"Information","main","11/06/09","15:15:55",,"Starting FlexAssembler..."
"Information","main","11/06/09","15:15:55",,"Starting .NET..."
"Information","main","11/06/09","15:15:55",,"Starting Monitoring..."
"Information","main","11/06/09","15:15:56",,"ColdFusion started"

Last few lines of coldfusion-event.log
11/06 08:59:59 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: Starting application services
11/06 08:59:59 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: VM version = 14.0-b16
11/06 09:00:33 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: application services are now available
11/06 09:00:34 user CFMxmlServlet: init
11/06 09:00:34 user CFMxmlServlet: Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
11/06 09:00:52 user CFSwfServlet: init
11/06 09:00:54 user CFCServlet: init
11/06 15:15:33 info No JDBC data sources have been configured for this server (see jrun-resources.xml)
11/06 15:15:33 info JRun Proxy Server listening on *:51800
11/06 15:15:33 info Deploying enterprise application "Adobe_ColdFusion_9" from: file:/C:/ColdFusion9/
11/06 15:15:34 info Deploying web application "Adobe ColdFusion 9" from: file:/C:/ColdFusion9/
11/06 15:15:41 user JSPServlet: init
11/06 15:15:43 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: init
11/06 15:15:43 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: Starting application services
11/06 15:15:43 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: VM version = 14.0-b16
11/06 15:15:56 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: application services are now available
11/06 15:15:56 user CFMxmlServlet: init
11/06 15:15:56 user CFMxmlServlet: Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646

Last few lines of coldfusion-out.log.
11/06 09:00:30 Information [main] - Starting solr...
11/06 09:00:31 Information [main] - Starting archive...
11/06 09:00:31 Information [main] - Starting document...
11/06 09:00:31 Information [main] - Starting eventgateway...
11/06 09:00:32 Information [main] - Starting Event Backend Handlers.
11/06 09:00:32 Information [main] - Initialized EventRequestDispatcher with a Thread Pool size of 1.
11/06 09:00:32 Information [main] - Initializing EventRequestHandler
11/06 09:00:32 Information [main] - Starting Event Gateways.
11/06 09:00:32 Information [main] - Starting FlexAssembler...
11/06 09:00:32 Information [main] - Starting .NET...
11/06 09:00:33 Information [main] - Starting Monitoring...
11/06 09:00:33 Information [main] - ColdFusion started
11/06 09:00:33 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: application services are now available
11/06 09:00:34 user CFMxmlServlet: init
11/06 09:00:34 INFO Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
11/06 09:00:34 user CFMxmlServlet: Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
11/06 09:00:52 user CFSwfServlet: init
11/06 09:00:54 user CFCServlet: init

I'll wait to hear from you about how to restart inetinfo.exe.

Then I could go on the trying a built-in server install. Nonetheless, the IIS install is supposed to work...

Thanks again for your help,

Peyton

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24. BKBK,

Nov 6, 2009 1:45 PM in reply to PeytonT

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I'll be glad to rest/restart IIS, but I don't know how.

Simple. Google reset IIS

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25. itisdesign,

Nov 6, 2009 2:11 PM in reply to PeytonT

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Peyton,

I'm just curious.. What happens after you do this:

1) change antivirus (AVG) startup type from automatic to manual (start > run > services.msc > double-click each antivirus (AVG) service > change 'Startup type' to 'manual')
2) restart machine

Does CF start properly, after reboot, when antivirus is not running?

Thanks,
-Aaron Neff

P.S. You might also try those 2 steps before the next re-install of CF (to ensure antivirus is not interfering with CF installation)

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26. PeytonT,

Nov 6, 2009 2:52 PM in reply to itisdesign

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Thanks, now I know how to restart IIS (plus the additional clue that I should be googling things more often). Unfortunately, when I restart IIS I get the same result. Launching ColdFusion 9 from the Jrun Launcher it chugs along for a while, then reports an error, and tells me to check the console logs. It didn't dawn on my till just now that, by console logs, they of course mean the one in the DOS-type window that has opened, not the logs I sent earlier. The contents of that are presented after the double line below. Is it a problem (mentioned near the top) that the JRun kernel requires JNDI information but no jndi.properties file was found? Or that the CORBA configuration is not enabled (mentioned near the bottom)?

If these suggest nothing to anyone, I'll try stopping the AVG malware protection services next, then move on to trying it with the built-in server...
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No jndi.properties file was found in samples's SERVER-INF directory. The JRun ke
rnel requires JNDI information.
C:\ColdFusion9\runtime\bin\jrun.exe -nohup -start
Starting Macromedia JRun 4.0 (Build 108795), coldfusion server
These changes should get picked up!
11/06 17:28:19 warning Unable to open C:\ColdFusion9\runtime/lib/license.propert
ies
11/06 17:28:20 info JRun Naming Service listening on *:2932
11/06 17:28:23 info No JDBC data sources have been configured for this server (s
ee jrun-resources.xml)
11/06 17:28:23 info JRun Proxy Server listening on *:51800
11/06 17:28:23 info Deploying enterprise application "Adobe_ColdFusion_9" from:
file:/C:/ColdFusion9/
11/06 17:28:25 info Deploying web application "Adobe ColdFusion 9" from: file:/C
:/ColdFusion9/
11/06 17:28:32 INFO License Service: Flex 1.5 CF Edition enabled
11/06 17:28:32 INFO Starting Flex 1.5 CF Edition
11/06 17:28:33 user JSPServlet: init
11/06 17:28:35 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: init
11/06 17:28:35 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: Starting application s
ervices
11/06 17:28:35 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: VM version = 14.0-b16
11/06 17:28:38 Information [main] - Starting logging...
11/06 17:28:38 Information [main] - Starting license...
11/06 17:28:41 Information [main] - Invalid ColdFusion 9 license.
11/06 17:28:41 Information [main] - Invalid ColdFusion 9 license.
11/06 17:28:41 Information [main] - Developer Edition enabled
These changes should get picked up!
11/06 17:28:42 Information [main] - Starting crypto...
11/06 17:28:42 Information [main] - Installed JSafe JCE provider: Version 3.6 RS
A Security Inc. Crypto-J JCE Security Provider (implements RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hell
man, AES, DES, Triple DES, DESX, RC2, RC4, RC5, PBE, MD2, MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA1,
SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, HMAC-MD5, HMAC-RIPEMD160, HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA224
, HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA384, HMAC-SHA512)
11/06 17:28:42 Information [main] - Starting security...
11/06 17:28:43 Information [main] - Starting scheduler...
11/06 17:28:43 Information [main] - Starting WatchService...
11/06 17:28:43 Information [main] - Starting debugging...
11/06 17:28:43 Information [main] - Starting sql...
11/06 17:28:44 Information [main] - Pool Manager Started
11/06 17:28:44 Information [main] - Starting mail...
11/06 17:28:44 Information [main] - Starting runtime...
11/06 17:28:46 [main] INFO Using "C:\DOCUME~1\PEYTON~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\vfs_cache"
as temporary files store.
11/06 17:28:48 [main] INFO Using "C:\DOCUME~1\PEYTON~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\vfs_cache"
as temporary files store.
11/06 17:28:48 Information [main] - CORBA Configuration not enabled
11/06 17:28:48 Information [main] - Starting cron...
11/06 17:28:48 Information [main] - Starting registry...
11/06 17:28:49 Information [main] - Starting client...
11/06 17:28:53 Information [main] - Starting xmlrpc...
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27. Adam Cameron.,

Nov 6, 2009 3:05 PM in reply to PeytonT

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Since a comment there calls this "the built-in Jrun web server', does that mean I should have chosen the built-in server instead of 'all IIS sites' when in installed ColdFusion 9 yesterday?

Ah, it doesn't matter. IIS and JWS can connect to the CF server @ the same time, over different ports (say port 80 for IIS and port 8500 for JWS).

When I'm having issues with CF serving up pages (or, really: not serving up pages ;-), I move as close as possible to CF to start with, to check where the problem lies.

As the JWS is part of JRun, which is what CF runs on, there are fewer "moving parts" when using the JWS to test things. If one can get CF to serve pages via JWS but not IIS, then the problem lies with the IIS connection. If even JWS doesn't serve pages, there's a fundamental problem at the JRun / CF config end of things.

So, to start with, let's get CF working through JWS, and move from there.

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28. Adam Cameron.,

Nov 6, 2009 3:20 PM in reply to PeytonT

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OK, I get more after the XMLRPC thing:

11/07 12:13:43 Information [scheduler-8] - Starting xmlrpc...
11/07 12:13:44 Information [scheduler-8] - Starting graphing...
11/07 12:13:44 Information [scheduler-8] - Starting verity...
11/07 12:13:44 Information [scheduler-8] - Starting solr...
11/07 12:13:44 Information [scheduler-8] - Starting archive...
11/07 12:13:44 Information [scheduler-8] - Starting document...
11/07 12:13:44 Information [scheduler-8] - Starting eventgateway...
11/07 12:13:45 Information [scheduler-8] - Starting Event Backend Handlers.
11/07 12:13:45 Information [scheduler-8] - Initialized EventRequestDispatcher with a Thread Pool size of 1.
11/07 12:13:45 Information [scheduler-8] - Initializing EventRequestHandler
11/07 12:13:45 Information [scheduler-8] - Starting Event Gateways.
11/07 12:13:45 Information [scheduler-8] - Starting FlexAssembler...
11/07 12:13:45 Information [scheduler-8] - Starting .NET...
11/07 12:13:45 Information [scheduler-8] - Starting Monitoring...
11/07 12:13:46 Information [scheduler-8] - ColdFusion started
07/11 12:13:46 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: application services are now available
07/11 12:13:46 user CFMxmlServlet: init
07/11 12:13:46 INFO Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
07/11 12:13:46 user CFMxmlServlet: Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646

So my guess would be that the xmlrpc load is failing.

Just a note, if I use JRun to start CF, even after the start-up runs to completion I still get a message saying something to the effect of "it failed to start", and when refreshing the JRun monitor window the CF server doesn't suggest it's running. But it is.

I never use this UI to start CF, so I have no idea what my expectations should be here, though.

Fortunately, Adobe do free support for people who are having problems with installation, so round about now I'd be opening a ticket with them, if I was you.

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29. Adam Cameron.,

Nov 6, 2009 3:27 PM in reply to PeytonT

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Another worrisome issue: TM now shows two instances of JRUN.EXE, one of them taking up a lot of memory (158K), the other not (21K). Why? Is that a problem?

One of them is probably the JRun admin server. Do you have it set to start-up automatically? In Windows Services it's under "Macromedia JRun Admin Server" or something like that.

And how can I fix it so JRUN loads automatically on bootup, as happens on my other PC? I seem to remember that there's a directory somewhere where you can drag stuff you want to start right away. I'll search the Windows directory, but right now I want to get this post off before some catastrophe like the power going off and me losing all I just wrote.

You use the JRUNSVC program to create a Windows Service.

It's pretty straight forward, just do jrunsvc /? on the command line for the options. At its most basic level, it's simply

jrunsvc -install [name of CF Server instance here]

EG:

jrunsrv -install cfusion

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30. PeytonT,

Nov 6, 2009 7:55 PM in reply to Adam Cameron.

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Okay, guys, here are some results:

1. Thanks for telling me how to reset IIS. However, this had no effect on my problem. Did I mention this one already?

2. Turning off AVG security did have an effect, but an ambiguous one. Specifically:
   (a) As advised, I set AVG to 'Manual' (and by the way, thanks for telling me how to get to Windows Services). Then, just as a test, I tried to start CF *without* rebooting (pointless, preumably, but...) ... not only did CF start, but so did my app, when CF would not start at all on the attempt just before playing with AVG security.
   (b) When I did re-boot right after that, and verified via the AVG interface that everything was turned off, the result was... failure. CF did not start.
   (c) But just as I was closing the error window to have a look at the console log I slipped and closed the console log instead, so I had to try to start CF again just to enable me to view the console log, but I was not able to view the console log because.. CF did start, and so did my app.
   (d) Finally, I set AVG back to automatic and re-booted, and verified via their interface that everything in AVG was turned on. This put back the situation just before playing with AVG. And the result was... success, both in starting CF and in my app.

I think we have to conclude that this pattern of results makes no sense.

3. A potentially promising lead noted by Adam might be that my logs showed the process of starting CF aborting at the xmlrpc step, whereas his continued past there with graphing, verity, solr, and beyond. That suggests that the problem lies with my xmlrpc step. Maybe, but my earlier attempts at starting CF over the past few days usually failed just after announcing (therefore, presumably being on) the graphing step.

It does seem that it's time to start a trouble ticket, and thanks, too, for informing me that it's free for installation problems. But there's just one more thing I'd like to try first: the built-in server. The benefits of using that strategy generally, and not just for my problem, as described by Adam, seem excellent.

Here goes...

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31. PeytonT,

Nov 6, 2009 7:58 PM in reply to PeytonT

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Incidentally, starting CF via JRun's launcher is not my usual practice either. I am doing so, of course, only because neither JRun nor CF are starting of themselves. However, at some occasions during the above tortured saga, they indeed *were* loading automatically....

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32. Adam Cameron.,

Nov 6, 2009 8:34 PM in reply to PeytonT

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Incidentally, starting CF via JRun's launcher is not my usual practice either. I am doing so, of course, only because neither JRun nor CF are starting of themselves. However, at some occasions during the above tortured saga, they indeed *were* loading automatically....

Is there no CF Service listed in Windows Services? That's how I'd usually start/stop CF. It might or might nor matter, whilst you're troubleshooting. I didn't like the way that the JRun applet said my CF instance failed to start when in fact it had started fine, though. So I don't know that I trust it.

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33. BKBK,

Nov 7, 2009 6:12 AM in reply to PeytonT

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But there's just one more thing I'd like to try first: the built-in server.
Choose the option of built-in server during installation. After installation, use the Web Server Configuration Tool to add IIS. In my opinion, that is the most problem-free way to do a single-server installation of Coldfusion on Windows.

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Nov 7, 2009 7:53 AM in reply to BKBK

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Curiouser and curiouser. First I uninstalled CF9 (as I have always done before these new installations). Then I installed CF9 with the built-in server option, un-checking the verity, solr, and .NET options since I was viewing this as hopefully my final installation and I will have no use for those functions. I was told that the installation was successful (at least its "first step", the next step being the Configuration Wizard. However, when I checked Task Manager. I was surprised to find that no jrun.exe or jrunsvc.exe were present, although they had been after my few earlier sucessful installs. Not surprisingly if the Configuration Wizard requires jrun, 8500/cfide/administrator/index.cfm did not succeed in loading it.

(My memory is hazy on this one point: Either I loaded jrun.exe manually and was then successful in going to 8500/cfide/administrator/index.cfm, and didn't bother to write down that event since it seemed obvious, or I simply assumed it would be successful. But it was late, so I went to bed, with the intent of continuing this morning.)

Going at the task this morning, not only do I find no jrun or jrunsvc having been loaded at reboot (none in Task Manager anyway), but the ColdFusion9 directory did not contain them either, nor much else I'm now accustomed to finding there.Nor were there copies of jrun.exe or jrunsvc.exe anywhere on my hard drive. The only files containing the character string "jrun" were:
1. Some copies of C__COLDFUSION8_RUNTIME_BIN_JRUN.EXE.ndb in a subdirectory of my Documents and Settings directory containing AVG9 in its name. Maybe part of the problem? All were added in the past few days, during the time I was dealing only with CF9, not the CF8.
2. The two files JRUN.EXE-3707B9DE.pf and JRUNSVC.EXE-2F13F13F.pf, both dated last night, at a specific time I would take to be *during* the install.

The 'cf-j2ee-readme.txt' file tells me there could be more to all this than I envisioned, so I'm getting these results posted while I read that readme file more carefully.Meantime, any light you can shed would be appreciated as always. Potentially relevant is the fact that in my installation I left RDS checked, with the wild guess it might help a third party with debugging remotely some day. Reading the readme, I wonder if that's why I was offered the default choice of EAR which I accepted (or was that offer made at an earlier step?...). Anyway, as I said, I'm sending this much right away, fearful as ever that I will lose it all by a loss of power or some other glitch. (One last quick point, though: my computer does meet the hardware requirements for EAR.)

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Nov 7, 2009 8:06 AM in reply to PeytonT

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Wow. I can only say, based on what I see in the aforementioned readme file, that this seems to require a huge amount of work - far more than my present situation justifies. Maybe I should simply go back to CF8? Go back the the IIS option while buying another computer on the supposition that mine is somehow to blame?

Is installation with the built-in server really that complicated, or am I missing something?

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Curiouser and curiouser. First I uninstalled CF9 (as I have always done before these new installations). Then I installed CF9 with the built-in server option, un-checking the verity, solr, and .NET options since I was viewing this as hopefully my final installation and I will have no use for those functions. I was told that the installation was successful (at least its "first step", the next step being the Configuration Wizard.

However, when I checked Task Manager.... etc., etc.
I identify with you, until the step in bold. Restrict yourself to a clean, single-server installation. You should, during the installation process, resist the temptation to get yourself involved with Task Manager, JRun, JRunsvc, AVG, EAR, and so on. The more balls you juggle, the higher the chance you'll drop 'em all.

I would do it as follows:

1) If you haven't already done so, update AVG with the latest antivirus definitions and scan your computer. I'll therefore assume your computer clean.
2) Disable AVG. This will, for example, prevent it from holding a lock on a file you might want to delete.
3) Stop Coldfusion 9. Uninstall Coldfusion 9, removing every trace of it from your file system.
4) If there is an older version of Coldfusion on your computer, rename its installation folder. For example, C:\Coldfusion8_backup\. That would prevent the possibility of mistakenly running the older version.
5) Restart Windows.
6) Disable AVG to prevent it from interfering.
7) Install Coldfusion 9 as you did before. When you reach the Configuration Wizard step, do nothing. Just get back to the forum for the kumbaya moment, and we'll all proceed from there.

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37. PeytonT,

Nov 7, 2009 8:56 AM in reply to BKBK

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BKBK, I would love not to be involved in the installation process. The only reason I ever did any of the things you say not be be involved in was because the normal installation process was not doing it for me - loading JRun, for example (as it did do on the few occasions when it did succeed, only to fail to load JRun after a reboot). And how could me just taking a peek into Task Manager to find out whether JRun is there involve myself in the installation *process*? I have done that only when the installation program has either (a) aborted midstream and I'm investigating after the fact; or (b) it claims to have completed but all attempts to access localhost/cfide/administrator/index.cfm are unsuccessful - and, as it turns out, do become successful when JRun is manually loaded.

Nonetheless, I'm ready to undertake the steps you describe, subject to the following possible glitch: when I look at Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs, I find no instance of ColdFusion there for me to uninstall. Is that because going the built-in server route doesn't actually install it at all in the usual sense, but rather just puts the EAR or WAR files in the ColdFusion9 directory? In such a case, would "uninstall coldfusion" be another name for simply deleting the ColdFusion9 directory? But could that be enough? Could this most recent installation with the built-in server option have put nothing at all in the Registry?

Peyton

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38. Adam Cameron.,

Nov 7, 2009 9:39 AM in reply to PeytonT

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The 'cf-j2ee-readme.txt' file tells

It tells me that you didn't select either of the "install CF" (either stand-alone or multi-server) options during the install, you choice the "create EAR/WAR" file option. Which doesn't install CF, it just creates a EAR or WAR file (for deployment on an existing J2EE server).

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39. BKBK,

Nov 7, 2009 10:14 AM in reply to PeytonT

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PeytonT, I do sympathize with you, and admire your patience. You'll gain something from the saga, I'm sure. At the end of it all, you'll know about the process better than most of us.

Take into account what Adam has just said. If it is true, then it should be sufficient to delete the files. In any case, you will find the tools to uninstall the single-server Coldfusion 9 installation, or to kill JRun, in C:\ColdFusion9\uninstall\. Good luck.

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