ColdFusion MX 7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4?

[lolwahnkenobi]

Hi there,

i read in the ColdFusion MX 7 System Requirements, ColdFusion MX 7 supports
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS & ES versions 2.1 and 3.0.

But i'll setup ColdFusion MX 7 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4 platform. Is
this recommended or which
is the best linux platform to run a stabile ColdFusion MX 7 environment on
JRun or another J2EE application servers?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[Tom Jordahl]

If it works, it works. Linux is notorious for breaking backwards
compatibility. But you will probably not be able to get much technical
support until we certify that platform.

--
Tom Jordahl
Macromedia Server Development

[staver]

Well, I can tell it installs fine... and appears to start fine, but when you
try to view the Administrator, you get: The Graphing service is not available.
This exception is usually caused by service startup failure. Please check
your server configuration. Please try the following: Enable Robust
Exception Information to provide greater detail about the source of errors. In
the Administrator, click Debugging & Logging > Debugging Settings, and
select the Robust Exception Information option. Check the ColdFusion
documentation to verify that you are using the correct syntax. Search the
Knowledge Base to find a solution to your problem. So, I have no idea what
that means....

[staver]

I'll expand on this error I'm getting, here is a snipped from my logs
(/opt/coldfusionmx7/logs/server.log):
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:40',,'Starting logging...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:40',,'Starting crypto...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:43',,'Starting license...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:43',,'Starting License server ...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:49',,'Starting scheduler...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:50',,'Starting debugging...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:50',,'Starting sql...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:50',,'Starting mail...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:50',,'CORBA Configuration not enabled'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:51',,'Starting cron...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:51',,'Starting registry...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:51',,'Starting client...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:51',,'Starting xmlrpc...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:51',,'Starting graphing...'
'Error','main','03/28/05','16:52:52',,'Unable to initialize Graphing service:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
/opt/coldfusionmx7/runtime/jre/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:52',,'Starting verity...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:52',,'Starting archive...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:52',,'Starting document...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:52',,'Starting eventgateway...'
'Information','main','03/28/05','16:52:53',,'ColdFusion started' Yet, as you
can see I have the file: [root@localhost i386]# pwd
/opt/coldfusionmx7/runtime/jre/lib/i386 [root@localhost i386]# ls -alh total
6.2M drwxrwxr-x 5 apache root 4.0K Jun 3 2004 . drwxrwxr-x 13 apache root
4.0K Jul 1 2004 .. -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 22K Jun 3 2004 awt_robot
drwxrwxr-x 2 apache root 4.0K Jun 3 2004 client -r--r--r-- 1 apache root
671 Jun 3 2004 jvm.cfg -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 3.0M Jun 3 2004 libawt.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 341K Jun 3 2004 libcmm.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache
root 183K Jun 3 2004 libdcpr.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 13K Jun 3 2004
libdt_socket.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 860K Jun 3 2004 libfontmanager.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 76K Jun 3 2004 libhprof.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache
root 16K Jun 3 2004 libioser12.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 4.8K Jun 3
2004 libjaas_unix.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 76K Jun 3 2004
libjavaplugin_jni.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 139K Jun 3 2004 libjava.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 3.9K Jun 3 2004 libjawt.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache
root 81K Jun 3 2004 libjcov.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 61K Jun 3 2004
libJdbcOdbc.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 179K Jun 3 2004 libjdwp.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 224K Jun 3 2004 libjpeg.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache
root 8.8K Jun 3 2004 libjsig.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 30K Jun 3 2004
libjsoundalsa.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 298K Jun 3 2004 libjsound.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 333K Jun 3 2004 libmlib_image.so -rw-r--r-- 1
apache root 5.4K Feb 4 2003 libnative_chmod.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root
67K Jun 3 2004 libnet.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 24K Jun 3 2004
libnio.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 3.6K Jun 3 2004 librmi.so -rwxrwxr-x 1
apache root 70K Jun 3 2004 libverify.so -rwxrwxr-x 1 apache root 88K Jun
3 2004 libzip.so drwxrwxr-x 2 apache root 4.0K Jun 3 2004 native_threads
drwxrwxr-x 2 apache root 4.0K Jun 3 2004 server What I think is this - I
don't have Xwindows installed on this box. This library that's missing, it
appears to be library related to Xwindows. Odd that Macromedia would require X
on a webserver?!?! Just my 2 cents.

[staver]

ANSWER! I have found the solution to getting it going. You MUST have these
rpms installed: [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep x11
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-23.EL xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-23.EL
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.1-23.EL xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-23.EL
xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-23.EL xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.1-23.EL
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-23.EL xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.1-23.EL The
important ones are the depreciated-libs - without thouse, CFGraph or whatever
it is will not start, leaving you unable to access the Administrator. So far,
with these there, CFMX7 works great on CentOS 4.0, and if that's the case, it
will definitely work great on RHEL 4.0.

[EluSiOn]

CFMX7 works great on RHEL v4. I have mine running but I disable the SELINUX to do so

[Tom Jordahl]

It is a bug that the admin doesn't work when the graphing service doesn't
start and we will definitely fix that. Glad to hear you got it working.

--
Tom Jordahl
Macromedia Server Development

[ismail44]

Any progress on this 'bug'. We are in dire straits.

[staver]

You can easily make CFMX7 work on RHEL 4 - you just need to have those RPMs
installed that I mentioned above. Do you know to check for those? These are
the two most important: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.1-23.EL
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-23.EL

[misschatter]

Is this a bug in Solaris as well? I've just installed CFMX 7 on Solaris under
BEA Weblogic 8.1 and also get that error trying to go to the administrator for
the first time. The only error I saw in startup was:

04/21 21:12:24 Error [ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.System']
- Unable to initialize Graphing service: java.lang.RuntimeException: No Flash
Fonts were found in: /usr/local/bea/domains/AIG/fonts

The directory it shows is my domain root for the BEA Weblogic server, not the
application deployment root anyway (???). Not sure how/why it's looking there
to begin with since there's nothing in the documentation saying we need to
install something there.

Any help appreciated! (I'm going to try to remove the CF_GRAPHING_JVM_OPTIONS
from the WLS start script to see if anything changes - or modify it.

[ismail44]

We actually found a solution to our Fedora Core 3/CF MX 7 Issue. We had to start up java in headleass mode. I can send you our JVM startup script.

[misschatter]

Thanks. I added -Djava.awt.headless=true but I still get the error about fonts
in my domain directory.

04/22 11:55:59 INFO License Service: Flex 1.5 CF Edition enabled
04/22 11:55:59 INFO Starting Flex 1.5 CF Edition
04/22 11:55:59 INFO Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
04/22 11:56:02 Information [main] - Starting logging...
04/22 11:56:03 Information [main] - Starting crypto...
04/22 11:56:05 Information [main] - Starting license...
04/22 11:56:05 Information [main] - Starting License server ...
04/22 11:56:25 Information [main] - Starting scheduler...
04/22 11:56:25 Information [main] - Starting debugging...
04/22 11:56:25 Information [main] - Starting sql...
04/22 11:56:26 Information [main] - Starting mail...
04/22 11:56:26 Information [main] - CORBA Configuration not enabled
04/22 11:56:26 Information [main] - Starting cron...
04/22 11:56:26 Information [main] - Starting registry...
04/22 11:56:26 Information [main] - Starting client...
04/22 11:56:27 Information [main] - Starting xmlrpc...
04/22 11:56:27 Information [main] - Starting graphing...
04/22 11:56:28 Error [main] - Unable to initialize Graphing service:
java.lang.RuntimeException: No Flash Fonts were found in:
/usr/local/bea/domains/AIG/fonts
04/22 11:56:28 Information [main] - Starting verity...
04/22 11:56:28 Information [main] - Starting archive...
04/22 11:56:28 Information [main] - Starting document...
04/22 11:56:30 Information [main] - Starting eventgateway...
04/22 11:56:32 Information [main] - Starting Event Backend Handlers
04/22 11:56:32 Information [main] - Initialized EventRequestDispatcher with a
Thread Pool size of 10
04/22 11:56:32 Information [main] - Initializing EventRequestHandler
04/22 11:56:32 Information [main] - Starting Event Gateways
04/22 11:56:32 Information [main] - ColdFusion started


I'm also getting a new error when I try to run the administrator:

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at coldfusion.CfmServlet.getFilterChain(CfmServlet.ja va:59)
at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:101)
at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(Boot strapServlet.java:78)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletI nvocationAction.run(ServletStu
bImpl.java:1006)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeSe rvlet(ServletStubImpl.java:419
)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeSe rvlet(ServletStubImpl.java:315
)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$Ser vletInvocationAction.run(WebAp
pServletContext.java:6722)
at
weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubjec t.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.ja
va:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(Se curityManager.java:121)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.inv okeServlet(WebAppServletContex
t.java:3764)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execu te(ServletRequestImpl.java:264
4)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThrea d.java:219)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.ja va:178)
Caused by: coldfusion.server.ServiceFactory$ServiceNotAvailab leException: The
Runtime service is not available.
at coldfusion.server.ServiceFactory.getRuntimeService (ServiceFactory.java:109)
at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.(RequestMon itorFilter.java:15)
... 13 more

Instead of the default CF error about Graphics not working. Very strange.

[ismail44]

You also need to add this line...

-Djava.awt.graphicsenv=com.gp.java2d.ExHeadlessGrap hicsEnvironment

If this doesn't work for you... email me... and I can send you the all the
java_opts we use.

[email]ismail44@redogre.com[/email]

[ksmith]

You must also add -Xbootclasspath/a:cf_root/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib/webchartsJava2D.jar jvm argument in order for the com.gp.java2d classes to be found before the standard JVM classes are.

[misschatter]

I got it working - my problem was I didn't read the commented lines with very
similar arguments carefully where it said if your JVM is 1.4.1 and higher to
put "Headless" after "Ex". Then I had to delete the deployment and redeploy and
it worked (just restarting the app server didn't fix it)

[Abinidi]

Anyone Know if CFMX 7 will run on Suse 9.3?

[nauta]

Originally posted by: ksmith
You must also add
-Xbootclasspath/a:cf_root/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib/webchartsJava2D.jar jvm argument
in order for the com.gp.java2d classes to be found before the standard JVM
classes are.

I have tried all the suggestions for the jvm.config file but no luck. I'm
probably making a typo or leaving something out. Could you post a jvm.config
that does work for this situation.
Thanks
Manuel

[nauta]

Originally posted by: ksmith
You must also add
-Xbootclasspath/a:cf_root/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib/webchartsJava2D.jar jvm argument
in order for the com.gp.java2d classes to be found before the standard JVM
classes are.

I have tried all the suggestions for the jvm.config file but no luck. I'm
probably making a typo or leaving something out. Could you post a jvm.config
that does work for this situation.
Thanks
Manuel

[philsown]

We are having the same problem on Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition OS
version 5.2, ColdFusion MX Enterprise Edition, Version 7,0,0,91690.

All sites are running correctly, but the admin returns:

The Graphing service is not available.
This exception is usually caused by service startup failure. Please check your
server configuration.

The error occurred in Application.cfm: line 80

-1 : Unable to display error's location in a CFML template.

Please try the following:

* Check the ColdFusion documentation to verify that you are using the
correct syntax.
* Search the Knowledge Base to find a solution to your problem.

Browser Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10)
Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Remote Address 192.168.100.51
Referrer
Date/Time 29-Jul-05 09:28 AM
Stack Trace
at
cfApplication2ecfm105811000.runPage(C:\blackstone_ final\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\ad
ministrator\Application.cfm:80)

coldfusion.server.ServiceFactory$ServiceNotAvailab leException: The Graphing
service is not available.
at
coldfusion.server.ServiceFactory.getGraphingServic e(ServiceFactory.java:154)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknow n Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Un known Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at coldfusion.runtime.java.JavaProxy.invoke(JavaProxy .java:74)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invoke(CfJspPage.jav a:1627)
at
cfApplication2ecfm105811000.runPage(C:\blackstone_ final\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\ad
ministrator\Application.cfm:80)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java :152)
at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(Inclu deTag.java:343)
at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(Cfinclude Filter.java:65)
at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.include(Cfinclud eFilter.java:33)
at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(Applica tionFilter.java:157)
at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(Requ estMonitorFilter.java:51)
at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.jav a:86)
at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(Exception Filter.java:50)
at
coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.inv oke(ClientScopePersistenceFilt
er.java:28)
at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilt er.java:38)
at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilt er.java:38)
at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(Datasour ceFilter.java:22)
at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:105)
at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(Boot strapServlet.java:78)
at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker. java:91)
at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvok erChain.java:42)
at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequ estDispatcher.java:257)
at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(Servlet EngineService.java:527)
at
jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable( JRunProxyService.java:204)
at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRu nnable(ThreadPool.java:457)
at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java :66)

[prayank]

Hi Philson

could you please zip all you log files in the <cfusion>\logs directory and
mail that to me, please also mail your <cfusion>\runtime\bin\jvm.config file to
me.

My contact address : pswaroop (at) macromedia (dot) com