Tork Wrench » Uncategorized http://www.torkwrench.com Things I learnt today, working on IBM Lotus Web Content Management. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:50:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Vmware player on RHEL 5: How to get rid of Clearlooks error http://www.torkwrench.com/2010/04/12/vmware-player-on-rhel-5-how-to-get-rid-of-clearlooks-error/ http://www.torkwrench.com/2010/04/12/vmware-player-on-rhel-5-how-to-get-rid-of-clearlooks-error/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:10:28 +0000 Graham http://www.torkwrench.com/?p=208 Continue reading →]]> Quick tip: if you get this error when starting vmplayer from the command line on RHEL 5:

/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:59: error: unexpected identifier `animation', expected character `}'

Just open the file /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc and comment out line 59, like so:

#animation         = FALSE

This doesn’t seem to affect functionality, but if you’re one of those people who wants their logs to be clean, the fix is easy.

]]> http://www.torkwrench.com/2010/04/12/vmware-player-on-rhel-5-how-to-get-rid-of-clearlooks-error/feed/ 0 CNTR0019E: Initialization failed due to invalid property “supportedMemberTypes”. http://www.torkwrench.com/2009/12/14/cntr0019e-initialization-failed-due-to-invalid-property-supportedmembertypes/ http://www.torkwrench.com/2009/12/14/cntr0019e-initialization-failed-due-to-invalid-property-supportedmembertypes/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:47:44 +0000 Graham http://www.torkwrench.com/?p=172 Continue reading →]]> Any problem where WMM (WebSphere Member Manager) doesn’t start properly is a deal breaker for Portal. Once WMM fails, every other component will fail, and you’ll be faced with a nasty 404 message.

After installing 6.0.1.4-WP-IFPK83731.zip and 6.0.1.4-WP-IFPK70263.zip on a machine here I got this error message, and a 404 when I tried to hit portal. These fixes update the version of WMM to the (current) latest version. Here’s what was in my SystemOut.log

[12/14/09 17:31:09:618 EST] 0000002a SystemOut O WMM Implementation Version: WMM5.6_PK83731 (April 1 2009)
[12/14/09 17:31:09:618 EST] 0000002a WSMM Message E com.ibm.ws.wmm.MemberRepositoryManager init() Initialization failed due to invalid property “supportedMemberTypes”.
[12/14/09 17:31:09:653 EST] 0000002a WSMM Message E com.ibm.ws.wmm.objectimpl.MemberServiceBeanBase ejbCreate() com.ibm.websphere.wmm.exception.InitializationException: Initialization failed due to invalid property “supportedMemberTypes”.
[12/14/09 17:31:09:655 EST] 0000002a ExceptionUtil E CNTR0019E: EJB threw an unexpected (non-declared) exception during invocation of method “getConfigurationData”. Exception data: com.ibm.ejs.container.CreateFailureException: ; nested exception is:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at com.ibm.ejs.container.StatelessBeanO.(StatelessBeanO.java:172)
at com.ibm.ejs.container.CMStatelessBeanO.(CMStatelessBeanO.java:58)
at com.ibm.ejs.container.CMStatelessBeanOFactory.create(CMStatelessBeanOFactory.java:40)
at com.ibm.ejs.container.EJSHome.createBeanO(EJSHome.java:913)
at com.ibm.ejs.container.EJSHome.createBeanO(EJSHome.java:1016)
at com.ibm.ejs.container.activator.UncachedActivationStrategy.atActivate(UncachedActivationStrategy.java:83)
at com.ibm.ejs.container.activator.Activator.activateBean(Activator.java:595)
at com.ibm.ejs.container.EJSContainer.preInvokeActivate(EJSContainer.java:3439)
at com.ibm.ejs.container.EJSContainer.preInvoke(EJSContainer.java:2836)
at com.ibm.ejs.container.EJSContainer.preInvoke(EJSContainer.java:2745)
at com.ibm.websphere.wmm.objects.EJSRemoteStatelessMemberService_14d751a3.getConfigurationData(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.websphere.wmm.objects._MemberService_Stub.getConfigurationData(_MemberService_Stub.java:2292)
at com.ibm.wps.services.puma.SystemWMMAccessBean$39.run(SystemWMMAccessBean.java:906)
at com.ibm.ws.security.auth.distContextManagerImpl.runAs(distContextManagerImpl.java:2771)
at com.ibm.ws.security.auth.distContextManagerImpl.runAsSystem(distContextManagerImpl.java:2651)
at com.ibm.wps.services.puma.SystemWMMAccessBean.getConfigurationData(SystemWMMAccessBean.java:912)
at com.ibm.wps.services.puma.RealmAwareURManager.initRealms(RealmAwareURManager.java:117)
at com.ibm.wps.services.puma.RealmAwareURManager.(RealmAwareURManager.java:103)
at com.ibm.wps.services.puma.PumaServiceImpl.init(PumaServiceImpl.java:215)
at com.ibm.wps.services.Service.init(Service.java:107)
at com.ibm.wps.services.Service.init(Service.java:83)
at com.ibm.wps.services.ServiceManager.createService(ServiceManager.java:400)
at com.ibm.wps.services.ServiceManager.getService(ServiceManager.java:527)
at com.ibm.wps.services.ServiceManager.getService(ServiceManager.java:553)
at com.ibm.wps.services.puma.Puma.(Puma.java:52)
at com.ibm.wps.ac.impl.AccessControlDataManagementServiceImpl.initializeDomainConfig(AccessControlDataManagementServiceImpl.java:885)
at com.ibm.wps.ac.impl.AccessControlDataManagementServiceImpl.reinit(AccessControlDataManagementServiceImpl.java:792)
at com.ibm.wps.ac.impl.AccessControlDataManagementServiceImpl.init(AccessControlDataManagementServiceImpl.java:439)
at com.ibm.wps.services.ServiceManager.createService(ServiceManager.java:400)
at com.ibm.wps.services.ServiceManager.getService(ServiceManager.java:527)
at com.ibm.wps.ac.impl.AccessControlDataManagement.(AccessControlDataManagement.java:41)
at com.ibm.wps.ac.impl.AccessControlServiceImpl.initializeServices(AccessControlServiceImpl.java:138)
at com.ibm.wps.ac.impl.AccessControlServiceImpl.init(AccessControlServiceImpl.java:114)
at com.ibm.wps.services.ServiceManager.createService(ServiceManager.java:400)
at com.ibm.wps.services.ServiceManager.getService(ServiceManager.java:527)
at com.ibm.wps.ac.internal.AccessControlLookupManager.getAccessControlLookup(AccessControlLookupManager.java:37)
at com.ibm.wps.ac.ACManager.getAccessControl(ACManager.java:132)
at com.ibm.hrl.siapi.search.admin.utils.PortletUtils.getPortalAdminUserID(PortletUtils.java:321)
at com.ibm.hrl.siapi.search.admin.portlets.manage.SearchAdminPortletManager.(SearchAdminPortletManager.java:64)
at com.ibm.hrl.siapi.search.admin.portlets.SiapiSearchAdminPortlet.init(SiapiSearchAdminPortlet.java:532)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:320)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.initialize(ServletWrapper.java:1821)
at com.ibm.wsspi.webcontainer.extension.WebExtensionProcessor.createServletWrapper(WebExtensionProcessor.java:141)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.getServletWrapper(WebApp.java:885)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.initializeTargetMappings(WebApp.java:612)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.initialize(WebApp.java:479)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroup.addWebApplication(WebGroup.java:123)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.VirtualHost.addWebApplication(VirtualHost.java:146)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.addWebApp(WebContainer.java:940)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.addWebApplication(WebContainer.java:893)

I’m not sure what was updated in WMM for this one, but the solution is simple: install WAS 6.0.2.37 to fix it.

]]> http://www.torkwrench.com/2009/12/14/cntr0019e-initialization-failed-due-to-invalid-property-supportedmembertypes/feed/ 0 Oracle runstats oneliner (ok, two liner) http://www.torkwrench.com/2009/09/03/oracle-runstats-oneliner-ok-two-liner/ http://www.torkwrench.com/2009/09/03/oracle-runstats-oneliner-ok-two-liner/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:24:30 +0000 Graham http://www.torkwrench.com/?p=134 Continue reading →]]> Use this to generate a runstats script for your Oracle system. Only works for 6.1 . Also very ugly :)

#!/bin/bash
export PROFILE_PATH=/opt/WebSphere/wp_profile
cat ${PROFILE_PATH}/ConfigEngine/properties/wkplc_comp.properties | grep DbUser | grep -v source | grep -v '#' | grep -v DBA | awk -F = '{print "execute dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats(ownname=>'"'"'" $2 "'\'', cascade=> TRUE);"}' > reorg.sql

Now copy this file to your oracle system and run this:

sqlplus / as sysdba @reorg.sql

Pow! All done.

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edit-comments

]]> http://www.torkwrench.com/2009/08/04/best-comment-spam-ever/feed/ 0 DB2 and ConfigEngine : Security mechanism not supported http://www.torkwrench.com/2009/06/28/db2-and-configengine-security-mechanism-not-supported/ http://www.torkwrench.com/2009/06/28/db2-and-configengine-security-mechanism-not-supported/#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:19:58 +0000 Graham http://www.torkwrench.com/?p=112 Continue reading →]]> I try to post really random solutions here, and this one’s a doozy ! I was updating a production machine from Portal 6.1.0 to 6.1.0.2. I always run the ConfigEngine tasks validate-standalone-ldap and validate-database-connection before I run any Portal update to make sure that the update won’t fail from something silly like a missing password. I’d highly recommend this practice on your Portal systems.
This time when running validate-database-connection, I ran into this error:

action-validate-database:
     [echo] domain       'jcr'
     [echo] DbtDbDriver  'com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver'
     [echo] DbtDbLibrary '/home/db2inst1/sqllib/java/db2jcc.jar:/home/db2inst1/sqllib/java/db2jcc_license_cu.jar'
     [echo] DbtDbUser    'db2inst1'
     [echo] DbtDbUrl     'jdbc:db2://localhost:50000/WPS6TCP'
     [echo] DbtDbName    'WPS6TCP'
     [java] [06/28/09 13:47:09.620 EST] Attempting to make connection using: jdbc:db2://localhost:50000/WPS6TCP :: db2inst1 :: PASSWORD_REMOVED
     [java] [06/28/09 13:47:09.875 EST] ERROR: Error obtaining connecting for jdbc:db2://localhost:50000/WPS6TCP
     [java] com.ibm.db2.jcc.b.SqlException: [ibm][db2][jcc][t4][201][11237] Connection authorization failure occurred.  Reason: Security mechanism not supported.
     [java]     at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.b.m(b.java:1981)
     [java]     at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.b.a(b.java:1565)
     [java]     at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.bb.b(bb.java:3386)
     [java]     at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.bb.a(bb.java:332)
     [java]     at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.bb.a(bb.java:112)
     [java]     at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.b.j(b.java:1259)
     [java]     at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.b.b(b.java:1132)
     [java]     at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.b.b(b.java:715)
     [java]     at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.b.a(b.java:701)
     [java]     at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.b.a(b.java:378)
     [java]     at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.b.<init>(b.java:316)
     [java]     at com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver.connect(DB2Driver.java:166)
     [java]     at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:572)
     [java]     at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:165)
     [java]     at com.ibm.wps.config.db.Database.init(Database.java:139)
     [java]     at com.ibm.wps.config.db.validation.ValidationDriver.main(ValidationDriver.java:209)

It looked like the problem I’d seen on Ubuntu, where the database password was hashed with an unsupported scheme, but it couldn’t be, because this was on a plain old RHEL system. The difference was that I’d recently changed DB2′s database manager settings from AUTHENTICATION = SERVER to AUTHENTICATION = DATA_ENCRYPT . DATA_ENCRYPT is good because it will send your sql data and your authentication details encrypted across the wire.

Anyway, to make the validation work on a system where you have enabled the DATA_ENCRYPT parameter, just add securityMechanism=13; to the end of the database url. So mine becomes:

jcr.DbUrl=jdbc:db2://localhost:50000/WP6TCP:securityMechanism=13;

So how would the system work in any case, if the database url was wrong?!? The answer is clear after delving into the WebSphere admin console a little bit. I’d configured the custom properties of each Portal datasource post database transfer to work with DATA_ENCRYPT, but not the database urls in wkplc_comp.properties. Here’s where you would set it.

data_encrypt

It is important to emphasize that the wkplc*.properties file in ConfigEngine are templates only, and don’t affect the running of the system, until you run a ConfigEngine task against them. Only then do their values get copied to the actual Portal server.

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If you’re a Linux person, I’d wait for the VMWare images to come out, as they’ll be Linux based installs.

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