IdP won't start

[Kevin P. Foote]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Etan Weintraub wrote:

> So, we recently patched the OS (RedHat 6), and when we try to start Tomcat to get the IdP running, the war is deployed, and in the idp-process.log it gets to this line and then stops and does nothing further:
> 12:32:30.570 - DEBUG [edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.attribute.resolver.provider.dataConnector.RDBMSDataConnector:215] - RDBMS data connector EpicShibUser - Validating configuration.
>
> Here is the configuration we have for that data connector, and I've verified the username/password/host/etc. by going directly to the server (username, password, host, etc. REDACTED for obvious reasons):
>
>   <resolver:DataConnector xsi:type="RelationalDatabase" xmlns="urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:resolver:dc" id="EpicShibUser">
>
>      <ApplicationManagedConnection
>      jdbcDriver="net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver"
>      jdbcURL="jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://REDACTED:1433;databaseName=requirementTracking;ssl=require;user=REDACTED;password=REDACTED;"
>      jdbcUserName="REDACTED"
>      jdbcPassword="REDACTED" />
> <QueryTemplate>
>         <![CDATA[
>                select uid,cn,sn,givenname,providerID,department,mail
>                from vwShibbolethAttributes
>                where uid = '$requestContext.principalName'
>         ]]>
>      </QueryTemplate>
>    </resolver:DataConnector>
>
>
> I'm not positive that the error is in here, but as it's the last thing I see in the logs when I have them turned up to DEBUG, it's the best bet I've got. I'm running version 2.3.8 of the IdP on version 6.0.36 of Tomcat.
>
> Any ideas/help?

What do your tomcat logs (catalina.out) say if anything?

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thanks
  kevin.foote