Part of the typical Roller installation process is adding mail.jar and activation.jar to the Tomcat classpath. It appears that perhaps those files have been deleted from the Roller setup. I'm pretty sure this was working before on blogs.apache.org. Maybe Christ T or Gavin M would be able to comment so I added them to the CC.
Dave On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 11:58 AM Rich Bowen <rbo...@apache.org> wrote: > Um ... sorry ... my mistake, the second invite immediately after the first > *did* result in a 500 this time, but this time for a different reason: > > Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/activation/DataSource > at > org.apache.roller.weblogger.util.MailUtil.sendMessage(MailUtil.java:577) > ~[classes/:?] > > However, that appears to be a configuration problem - ie, no mail server > designated. So probably unrelated. > > > On 2021/03/17 15:54:41, Rich Bowen <rbo...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi, folks, > > > > I have just added some people to the Conferences section of > blogs.apache.org, as authors. Each time, the server returns a 500 error, > but the user is successfully added. > > > > The error message, which is extremely lengthy, starts with: > > > > 15:45:43.850 [http-nio-8080-exec-747] ERROR > org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.DefaultDispatcherErrorHandler - Exception > occurred during processing request: Method "save" failed for object > org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.struts2.editor.MembersInvite@51d2271 > > ognl.MethodFailedException: Method "save" failed for object > org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.struts2.editor.MembersInvite@51d2271 > > at ognl.OgnlRuntime.callAppropriateMethod(OgnlRuntime.java:1932) > ~[ognl-3.1.26.jar:?] > > at > ognl.ObjectMethodAccessor.callMethod(ObjectMethodAccessor.java:68) > ~[ognl-3.1.26.jar:?] > > at > com.opensymphony.xwork2.ognl.accessor.XWorkMethodAccessor.callMethodWithDebugInfo(XWorkMethodAccessor.java:98) > ~[struts2-core-2.5.22.jar:2.5.22] > > > > > > This is apparently caused by ... > > > > > > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.activation.DataSource > > > > > > Infra can provide the whole error message if that would be at all > helpful. > > > > This appears to happen when the server has been idle for a very long > time. ie, if I invite someone, this happens, but if I do a second one right > away, I do not get the 500 error. Trying again the next morning, I get the > 500 error again. This seems to suggest some kind of data connection timeout? > > > > Anyways, thanks, as always, for a great tool, and let me know if I can > provide any further information. > > > > >
