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Anonymous
March 28, 2008
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MX 7 won't restart unless I change the user it runs as

  • March 28, 2008
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We've had this happen to two servers now and I'm just waiting for it to happen to the third.

Afte a while, Coldfusion MX 7 will not restart. If we change the user the service runs as to "Administrator" it will run, but now longer under the "SYSTEM" user it was always running under before.

On;y after hours of working on this and upsetting a LOT of clients did we discover it would run by changing the users.

WTF. Anyone know why it seems that all of our MX 7 installations eventually get to this point?

Thanks

Mike
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    Anonymous
    April 1, 2008
    Have you (or anyone else) tinkered with any NTFS level permissions on your servers? I would venture a guess that SYSTEM has been removed from something that CF needs to start.
    J
    JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2
    Inspiring
    April 1, 2008
    This article may help you setup the necessary permissions for the CF service.
    http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_17279

    Edit: Sorry for the duplication, I realize now that Oguz.Demirkapi has already posted this link.
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    Anonymous
    April 10, 2008
    Here's another symptom. over time it takes longer and longer to restart coldfusion. Eventually it wont start at all even if we change the timeout to 10 minutes.

    Change the user to Administrator and it fires right up.

    It's not like one day CF started right up and the next it didn't. It was a slow process to get to the point where it wouldn't start. This is why I initially thought maybe the logs were holding it back.

    No one on this form has experienced this? We are getting this on THREE machines now. I had to restart our third to unflush DNS (stupid default settings in java.security. Thanks Macromedia! - it's MX7) and lo and behold, our third cf server will not start user the SYSTEM account.

    Mike
    N
    Newsgroup_User
    Inspiring
    April 1, 2008
    mikechyu wrote:
    > Does anyone have an idea why Coldfusion will not longer run under "Local
    > System" as it always had before?

    What error is in your cfusion-out.log when you try to run it as "Local
    System"?

    Jochem


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    Jochem van Dieten
    Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion
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    Anonymous
    April 1, 2008
    each time I would start it the three lines would appear:

    Starting Macromedia JRun 4.0 (Build 92909), coldfusion server
    03/28 15:13:31 warning Unable to open C:\CFusionMX7\runtime/lib/license.properties
    03/28 15:13:33 info JRun Naming Service listening on *:2920

    Then it would hang indefinitely.

    After changing it to run as "Administrator" I would get:

    Starting Macromedia JRun 4.0 (Build 92909), coldfusion server
    03/28 15:26:24 warning Unable to open C:\CFusionMX7\runtime/lib/license.properties
    03/28 15:26:25 info JRun Naming Service listening on *:2920
    03/28 15:26:25 warning No sessionSecret has been specified in jrun.xml. Installing a self generated sessionSecret.
    03/28 15:26:28 info No JDBC data sources have been configured for this server (see jrun-resources.xml)
    03/28 15:26:28 info JRun Proxy Server listening on *:51011
    03/28 15:26:28 info Deploying enterprise application "Macromedia ColdFusion MX" from: file:/C:/CFusionMX7/
    03/28 15:26:29 info Deploying web application "Macromedia Coldfusion MX" from: file:/C:/CFusionMX7/
    03/28 15:26:42 INFO License Service: Flex 1.5 CF Edition enabled
    03/28 15:26:42 INFO Starting Flex 1.5 CF Edition
    03/28 15:26:43 user JSPServlet: init
    03/28 15:26:44 user MessageBrokerServlet: init
    03/28 15:26:48 user CFMxmlServlet: init
    03/28 15:26:48 user CFMxmlServlet: Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
    03/28 15:26:48 INFO Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
    03/28 15:26:51 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: init
    03/28 15:26:51 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion MX: Starting application services
    03/28 15:26:51 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion MX: VM version = 1.4.2_09-b05
    03/28 15:26:53 Information [main] - C:\CFusionMX7\logs\server.log initialized
    03/28 15:26:53 Information [main] - Starting logging...
    03/28 15:26:53 Information [main] - Starting crypto...
    03/28 15:26:59 Information [main] - Starting license...
    03/28 15:26:59 Information [main] - Starting License server ...
    03/28 15:27:00 Information [main] - Starting scheduler...
    03/28 15:27:00 Information [main] - Starting WatchService...
    03/28 15:27:00 Information [main] - Starting debugging...
    03/28 15:27:01 Information [main] - Starting sql...
    03/28 15:27:18 Information [main] - Pool Manager Started
    03/28 15:27:19 Information [main] - Starting mail...
    03/28 15:27:20 Information [main] - CORBA Configuration not enabled
    03/28 15:27:20 Information [main] - Starting cron...
    03/28 15:27:20 Information [main] - Starting registry...
    03/28 15:27:20 Information [main] - Starting client...
    03/28 15:27:20 Information [main] - Starting xmlrpc...
    03/28 15:27:22 Information [main] - Starting graphing...
    03/28 15:27:32 Information [main] - Starting verity...
    03/28 15:27:32 Information [main] - Starting archive...
    03/28 15:27:32 Information [main] - Starting document...
    03/28 15:27:33 Information [main] - Starting eventgateway...
    03/28 15:27:34 Information [main] - C:\CFusionMX7\logs\eventgateway.log initialized
    03/28 15:27:34 Information [main] - Starting Event Backend Handlers
    03/28 15:27:34 Information [main] - Initialized EventRequestDispatcher with a Thread Pool size of 10
    03/28 15:27:34 Information [main] - Initializing EventRequestHandler
    03/28 15:27:34 Information [main] - Starting Event Gateways
    RMI Registry started and listening on port 1099
    03/28 15:27:34 Information [main] - Starting FlexAssembler...
    03/28 15:27:34 Information [main] - ColdFusion started
    03/28 15:27:34 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion MX: application services are now available
    03/28 15:27:34 user CFSwfServlet: init
    03/28 15:27:34 user CFCServlet: init
    03/28 15:27:36 user FlashGateway: init
    03/28 15:27:37 user CFFormGateway: init
    03/28 15:27:37 user CFInternalServlet: init
    Server coldfusion ready (startup time: 77 seconds)

    This is repeatable on BOTH machines by switching back to the "Local System" account and then to the "Administrator" account.

    Since this is now happening on TWO machines I have a hard time believing Adobe hasn't identified what the problem is. Maybe they have, a post to a hotfix would be GREATLY appreciated :)

    Thanks again

    Mike
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    Anonymous
    March 31, 2008
    Does anyone have an idea why Coldfusion will not longer run under "Local System" as it always had before? This is the default account it runs when it gets installed.

    I'd obviously rather NOT run it under administrator but at this point I have no other option.

    Thanks for the replies BTW.
    O
    Oğuz Demirkapı
    Participating Frequently
    March 28, 2008
    I think your SYSTEM account would have some issues with NTFS rights.

    I can easily say that "never" run CF in any "administrator account. :)

    Here is a technote about running CF with a different user.

    http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_17279


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    Anonymous
    March 31, 2008
    quote:
    Originally posted by: Oguz.Demirkapi
    I think your SYSTEM account would have some issues with NTFS rights.

    I can easily say that "never" run CF in any "administrator account. :)

    Here is a technote about running CF with a different user.

    http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_17279




    Yeah, there's "best practice" and then there is reality. And the reality of it is; even if you don't give CF an admin account, you still have to expose it to enough of your system that a lot of damage can still occur (giving it full control of the Windows install directory is a prime example).
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