Shibboleth IDP 2.4 Setup

[Ben Branch]

I'm currently using OpenJDK (1.7.0_45) for Shib IDP 2.4 without any issues.  The only thing that stuck out to me was this line from the catalina.out:

SEVERE: Error listenerStart
Jul 15, 2014 2:19:38 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/idp] startup failed due to previous errors

I did the following to help get more information about what was causing this error:

1. create a "classes" directory under $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/idp/WEB-INF (I'm on RHEL 6.5 and my tomcat dir. Is /usr/share/tomcat6).
2. touch logging.properties
3. Add these lines to the logging.properties:
        org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].level = INFO
        org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
4. save your logging.properties file
5. Restart Tomcat and tail -f your catalina.out.

I found that by doing this I was able to get at least a line and column number where my possible mistake was made while working through configuring Shibboleth the first time.   I hope this is helpful.



Ben Branch
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-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Cantor, Scott
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 1:45 PM
To: Shib Users
Subject: Re: Shibboleth IDP 2.4 Setup

On 7/15/14, 2:31 PM, "Richard Genthner" <moose at symplicity.com> wrote:

>Debugging Logs
>https://gist.github.com/moos3/54ac18ec658ba103f430

Well, it seems to me that it's a race condition that's maybe crashing because of the earlier error on a different metadata source, but I'm just guessing. I've never seen or experienced anything like this, so I don't have any other insight. Maybe Brent will have some idea when he's around again.

>root at idp:/opt/shibboleth-idp# java -version java version "1.6.0_31"
>OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.13.3) (6b31-1.13.3-1~deb7u1)
>OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode)

That however, is a screaming red flag. Use Oracle's JDK, or at least see if you get the same results with it.

-- Scott

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