Problem with Tomcat Native Lib

[klapcio]

Hello all,

I'm just trying to get JBoss working with Apache Tomcat Native library

after reading and follwing instruction from the JBoss Wiki @ http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/HowToAddAprToJBoss

The JBoss starrt isn't complete and is not responding, during starting JBoss is hanging:

INFO [AprLifecycleListener] Loaded Apache Tomcat Native library 1.1.13.
09:33:04,303 INFO [AprLifecycleListener] APR capabilities: IPv6 [true], sendfile [true], accept filters [false], random [true].

and it's all.

How to fix it ?

[peterj]

Which version of JBossAS?
Which version of JBoss Native?
What operating system and version?

[klapcio]

"PeterJ" wrote:
Which version of JBossAS?
Which version of JBoss Native?
What operating system and version?

Oh, sorry:

Jboss 4.2.2
JBoss Native: jboss-native-2.0.4-linux2-x86-ssl.tar.gz
OS: Ubuntu server 8.04 (in a virtual box)

and it doesnt hang, it takes very long to start:

[Server] JBoss (MX MicroKernel) [4.2.2.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_4_2_2_GA date=200710221139)] Started in 49m:21s:689ms

Wohaaa, nearly 1 hour to start JBoss, great !

[jaikiran]

See these

http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=134284

http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=134163

[klapcio]

"jaikiran" wrote:
See these

http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=134284

http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=134163

These two don't really help me...

[klapcio]

Solved!!!

The solution is quite simple, I've just added following in my run.sh script:

export RANDFILE=/dev/urandom

And now it works as usual (starting in 22 seconds instead of 50 minutes)

[peterj]

The reason I asked for the info I did was because I have seen this issue before on Linux (as pointed out by the posts mentioned by jaikiran). Unfortunately, as you saw in those posts, there was no known solution.

Did the long pause happen the first time you started JBossAS after a system reboot? My experience has been that the first time jbossas starts just fine but hangs at this point on every subsequent start, until I reboot my system.

How did you come across the RANDFILE setting as a solution?

[klapcio]

"PeterJ" wrote:
The reason I asked for the info I did was because I have seen this issue before on Linux (as pointed out by the posts mentioned by jaikiran). Unfortunately, as you saw in those posts, there was no known solution.

Yeah, but the pointed thread is useless

Did the long pause happen the first time you started JBossAS after a system reboot? My experience has been that the first time jbossas starts just fine but hangs at this point on every subsequent start, until I reboot my system.

I was rebooting for several times. The shortest time for JBoss start was about 20 minutes. Before the fix.

How did you come across the RANDFILE setting as a solution?

Tomcat native lib uses APR, APR uses SSL - so then ;-)