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  1. Dev - Nexus Repo
  2. NEXUS-4085

Nexus hangs on boot (SISU hangs)

Details

    • Bug
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Major
    • 1.9
    • 1.9
    • None
    • None

    Description

      Nexus hangs on boot, but actually it's SISU that hangs, like deadlocks or so. One of our 1.9-M1 user have following problems (visible in this wrapper.log below): his Nexus 1.9-M1 "bounces" on startup, it "freezes" on line "Starting the Plexus Container.", ultimately JSW kills it (boot timeout), and all starts again (another bounce + freeze + kill...).

      wrapper  | Launching a JVM...
      jvm 1    | Wrapper (Version 3.2.3) http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org
      jvm 1    |   Copyright 1999-2006 Tanuki Software, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
      jvm 1    | 
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "nexus-work"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./../data" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "webapp"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./runtime/apps/nexus/webapp" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "runtime-tmp"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./runtime/tmp" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "branding.image.path"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./../data/logo-eXo.png" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "webapp-context-path"="/" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "runtime"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./runtime" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "application-port"="20010" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "application-host"="127.0.0.1" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "application-conf"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./../data/conf" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "nexus-app"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./runtime/apps/nexus" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "apps"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./runtime/apps" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "security-xml-file"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./../data/conf/security.xml" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "basedir"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/." inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "appbooter.customizers"="org.sonatype.nexus.NexusBooterCustomizer" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | 2011-01-22 15:26:50 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "jetty.xml"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./conf/jetty.xml" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 1    | Loading PlexusAppBooterCustomizer (implementation=org.sonatype.nexus.NexusBooterCustomizer).
      jvm 1    | Starting the Plexus Container.
      wrapper  | TERM trapped.  Shutting down.
      wrapper  | Shutdown failed: Timed out waiting for signal from JVM.
      wrapper  | JVM did not exit on request, terminated
      wrapper  | JVM exited on its own while waiting to kill the application.
      wrapper  | JVM exited in response to signal SIGKILL (9).
      wrapper  | <-- Wrapper Stopped
      wrapper  | --> Wrapper Started as Daemon
      wrapper  | Launching a JVM...
      ...
      

      Finally, after many bounces, Nexus does start up:

      wrapper  | Reloading Wrapper configuration...
      wrapper  | Launching a JVM...
      jvm 3    | Wrapper (Version 3.2.3) http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org
      jvm 3    |   Copyright 1999-2006 Tanuki Software, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
      jvm 3    | 
      jvm 3    | Starting the Plexus Container.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "nexus-work"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./../data" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "webapp"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./runtime/apps/nexus/webapp" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "runtime-tmp"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./runtime/tmp" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "branding.image.path"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./../data/logo-eXo.png" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "webapp-context-path"="/" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "runtime"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./runtime" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "application-port"="20010" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "application-host"="127.0.0.1" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "application-conf"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./../data/conf" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "nexus-app"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./runtime/apps/nexus" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "apps"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./runtime/apps" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "security-xml-file"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./../data/conf/security.xml" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "basedir"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/." inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "appbooter.customizers"="org.sonatype.nexus.NexusBooterCustomizer" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:11 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.a.AppContext              - Property "jetty.xml"="/home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./conf/jetty.xml" inserted into AppContext.
      jvm 3    | Loading PlexusAppBooterCustomizer (implementation=org.sonatype.nexus.NexusBooterCustomizer).
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:13 INFO  [er_start_runner] - org.mortbay.log               - Logging to org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerAdapter(org.mortbay.log) via org.mortbay.log.Slf4jLog
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:13 INFO  [er_start_runner] - org.mortbay.log               - jetty-6.1.19
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:13 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.p.j.c.InjectExi~          - Injecting Plexus container for: null (context path: /)
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:13 INFO  [er_start_runner] - o.s.p.j.c.DisableTa~          - Disabling TLD support for: null (context path: /)
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:14 INFO  [er_start_runner] - org.mortbay.log               - NO JSP Support for /, did not find org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet
      jvm 3    | 2011-01-22 15:55:14 INFO  [er_start_runner] - org.sonatype.security.configuration.source.FileSecurityConfigurationSource - Loading Security configuration from /home/swfnexus/nexus-professional-webapp-1.9-M1/./../data/conf/security-configuration.xml
      

      Short analysis: the Nexus boot sequence freezes when it's still not a single Nexus component loaded up, it's actually Plexus IoC being created. It looks like some concurrency issue in following components:

      • appcontext (in spice)
      • appbooter (in spice)
      • SISU

      The line "org.sonatype.security.configuration.source.FileSecurityConfigurationSource" in 2nd log is the very 1st logline spitted out by Nexus (by Security most precisely), all the previous lines are spit out by appcontext and appbooter.

      It is indicative that the log line "Starting the Plexus Container." on "good boot" very 1st (as it should), but on frozen boots it's actually after appContext fills up context.

      Attachments

        1. sisu-inject-bean-1.4.3-20110128.jar
          157 kB
        2. sisu-inject-bean-1.4.3-server.jar
          157 kB
        3. sisu-inject-plexus-1.4.3-server.jar
          200 kB
        4. wrapper.conf
          8 kB
        5. wrapper.log
          98 kB

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