Alfresco couldn’t start. Why?

I have alfresco on my VM. When I try to start alfresco I got an error “postgresql could not be started” such as following : /opt/alfresco/postgresql/scripts/ctl.sh : postgresql could not be started Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/alfresco/tomcat Using CATALINA_HOME: /opt/alfresco/tomcat Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/temp Using JRE_HOME: /opt/alfresco/java Using CLASSPATH: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar /opt/alfresco/tomcat/scripts/ctl.sh : tomcat started When I check it … Read more

How can i get SSO for alfresco on windows-7 to work?

domain AD on windows 2008 R2, linux server alfresco 3.4c, windows-7 client. I’m trying to get automatically logged into alfresco from the windows-7 client. I’ve looked with wireshark to see what happens: 1. Client goes to /alfresco 2. Server sends Redirect to page 3. Client goes to Redirected page 4. Server sends a WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate … Read more

Unable to access Windows share

I’ve installed Alfresco 4.2.d under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS; Everything done fine except I can’t access it from Windows share (Windows 7 32bit) although I got the link from Alfresco explorer which is: file:///%5C%5CECSA%5CAlfresco%5CSites%5Cswsdp%5CdocumentLibrary%5CAgency%20Files%5CImages%5Ccoins.JPG I tried to access it from: \\ECSA but I failed too so I made a ping (192.168.0.70 is server IP) then I … Read more

Shared file size limited to local drive size

I wish to use alfresco as a shared file system using Windows (XP, 7 & 8) Explorer. I can access the shared folder, and can modify files on it. I can mount the alfresco filesystem, and it mounts automatically at each start. I have admin access both on alfresco and the AD. However, Windows Explorer … Read more

Alfresco installation – 4.2f “Could not find or load main class”

I’ve got a server that was running 4.2e. I heard about the 4.2f update, so I installed that (alongside, per the upgrade/validation instructions), but it fails to start at all. catalina configtest returns: C:\Alfresco42f\tomcat\bin>catalina configtest Using CATALINA_BASE: “C:\Alfresco42f\tomcat” Using CATALINA_HOME: “C:\Alfresco42f\tomcat” Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: “C:\Alfresco42f\tomcat\temp” Using JRE_HOME: “C:\ALFRES~1\java” Using CLASSPATH: “C:\Alfresco42f\tomcat\bin\bootstrap.jar;C:\Alfresco42f\t omcat\bin\tomcat-juli.jar” Error: Could not find … Read more

Alfresco Java using 100% CPU

Every time I start the alfresco service htop shows that /opt/alfresco/java/bin/java is using 100% and when i click F5 to see child processes I can see that it is creating more and more of the same process, it looks like this: root 28300 100 16.2 3125384 658028 ? Sl 17:32 0:20 /opt/alfresco/java/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/alfresco/tomcat/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -XX:MaxPermSize=256M … Read more

How to upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

I have a server with alfresco 5.0 installed in /opt/alfresco-5.0/ In it the most important folders are alf_data, postgresql, tomcat, java and libreoffice, so it’s running on those services and in those folder are binary files for those programs that alfresco service run when I start alfresco. The documentation for upgrading is really confusing and … Read more