jBoss crashes when basic seam app deployed, any ideas?

[motley]

Hi,

I am a brand new user to seam and I am currently trying to go through the tutorial.  Once I create a basic skeleton with:

./seam setup
./seam create-project

it appears to be created ok.  I then do:

./seam explode

and everything appears fine.  However when I browse to the web page at

http://localhost:8080/mc4/

I get a welcome screen but then jboss crashes with a segmentation fault :-(

just before that I get a few erros like:

16:28:58,046 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 4:28:58 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/usr/local/appservers/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/deploy/mc4.ear/mc4.war/WEB-INF/lib/richfaces-ui.jar!/META-INF/richfaces.taglib.xml

then:

Invalid memory access of location 43601458 eip=904716cd
/usr/local/jboss/bin/run.sh: line 255:  1527 Segmentation fault      "$JAVA" $JAVA_OPTS -Djava.endorsed.dirs="$JBOSS_ENDORSED_DIRS" -classpath "$JBOSS_CLASSPATH" org.jboss.Main "$@"

I am using:

jboss 4.2.3
seam 2.1.2
mysql 5.1.35

and running on macos 1.4.  The example apps provided with seam worked just fine.  Does anyone have any idea what I may be doing wrong here?

Cheers,
Dan.

[motley]

Just a quick update. It seems that if I use ICEfaces rather than Rich faces it is ok.  Any idea why this would be?

Thanks, 

[gonorrhea]

That's very strange.  Never heard of segmentation fault until now.

I do see this in my server.log, however:

2009-06-17 15:41:24,383 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 3:41:24 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/C:/java/jboss-eap-4.3/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/BETS.ear/BETS.war/WEB-INF/lib/jboss-seam-mail.jar!/META-INF/seam-mail.taglib.xml
2009-06-17 15:41:24,383 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 3:41:24 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/C:/java/jboss-eap-4.3/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/BETS.ear/BETS.war/WEB-INF/lib/jboss-seam-pdf.jar!/META-INF/seam-pdf.taglib.xml
2009-06-17 15:41:24,414 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 3:41:24 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/C:/java/jboss-eap-4.3/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/BETS.ear/BETS.war/WEB-INF/lib/jboss-seam-ui.jar!/META-INF/s.taglib.xml
2009-06-17 15:41:24,461 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 3:41:24 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/C:/java/jboss-eap-4.3/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/BETS.ear/BETS.war/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-facelets.jar!/META-INF/jsf-core.taglib.xml
2009-06-17 15:41:24,461 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 3:41:24 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/C:/java/jboss-eap-4.3/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/BETS.ear/BETS.war/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-facelets.jar!/META-INF/jsf-html.taglib.xml
2009-06-17 15:41:24,492 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 3:41:24 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/C:/java/jboss-eap-4.3/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/BETS.ear/BETS.war/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-facelets.jar!/META-INF/jsf-ui.taglib.xml
2009-06-17 15:41:24,508 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 3:41:24 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/C:/java/jboss-eap-4.3/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/BETS.ear/BETS.war/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-facelets.jar!/META-INF/jstl-core.taglib.xml
2009-06-17 15:41:24,555 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 3:41:24 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/C:/java/jboss-eap-4.3/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/BETS.ear/BETS.war/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-facelets.jar!/META-INF/jstl-fn.taglib.xml
2009-06-17 15:41:24,617 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 3:41:24 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/C:/java/jboss-eap-4.3/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/BETS.ear/BETS.war/WEB-INF/lib/richfaces-ui-3.3.1.GA.jar!/META-INF/a4j.taglib.xml
2009-06-17 15:41:24,633 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 3:41:24 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/C:/java/jboss-eap-4.3/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/BETS.ear/BETS.war/WEB-INF/lib/richfaces-ui-3.3.1.GA.jar!/META-INF/jsp.taglib.xml
2009-06-17 15:41:24,633 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 3:41:24 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/C:/java/jboss-eap-4.3/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/BETS.ear/BETS.war/WEB-INF/lib/richfaces-ui-3.3.1.GA.jar!/META-INF/ajax4jsf.taglib.xml
2009-06-17 15:41:24,695 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 3:41:24 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/C:/java/jboss-eap-4.3/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/BETS.ear/BETS.war/WEB-INF/lib/richfaces-ui-3.3.1.GA.jar!/META-INF/rich.taglib.xml
2009-06-17 15:41:24,711 ERROR [STDERR] Jun 17, 2009 3:41:24 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/C:/java/jboss-eap-4.3/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/BETS.ear/BETS.war/WEB-INF/lib/richfaces-ui-3.3.1.GA.jar!/META-INF/richfaces.taglib.xml

[swd847]

Make sure you are using the latest JVM. This is a jvm bug, or a bug in a library used by the jvm, if you can get an actual stack trace from the JVM it will probably give you an idea of what is causing the problem.

[motley]

Being a mac it is the latest jvm available.  I have been through the examples lookign for ones that use rich faces and they seem to work fine. (I think booking uses some ajax for the search?)

java -version =
java version "1.5.0_19"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_19-b02-306)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_19-138, mixed mode, sharing)

also I have no idea how ot get a jvm stack trace on macos and my googlefu seems to be letting me down. :-(

[motley]

In case any once else comes across this issue I figured it out, after a little more digging and came across this post:

http://seamframework.org/Community/RichFacesProblemWithOSX

It does seem like it is a rich faces issue, I tried the suggested fix:

-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=false

by adding it to bin/run.conf and it seems to have doen the trick.

-Djava.awt.headless=true

Seems to work too.  Any one know which the prefered method would be?

Regards,
Dan.

[david.salter]

Hi Dan, Are you running on OS X 10.4?  I had this problem a while ago on 10.4, and used this fix, but this isn't needed in OS x 10.5

I always use the -Dapple.... option and it always seems to work on 10.4.

Cheers,

Dave.

[binnyg]

JBoss AS or Tomcat may crash when running an app using RF 3.2.1 or higher, and the reason appears to be a problem with Apple's renderer engine. A workaround is to run the server with the following option. This would force mac to use Sun's renderer instead. Example running JBoss AS:

bin/run.sh -Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=false

[motley]

yeah it's 10.4 so using that seems to work...