Just to add my 2c worth Don’t install your data files into the <myserver>/tomcat/webapps/geoserver/data directory. Host your data elsewhere on the file system.
You can change the value for GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR in the web.xml file in <myserver>/tomcat/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF directory to point to this location. Eg: <context-param> <param-name>GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR</param-name> <param-value>/opt/spatial/geoserver/data</param-value> </context-param> This way you can: · Install your new instance of Geoserver and check that it works. · Stop Geoserver · Change the web.xml file as outlined above · Start Geoserver. All your data should now be available From: Vera Green [mailto:vera.green...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2019 10:02 AM To: Uwe Seher <uwe.se...@gmail.com> Cc: GeoServer Mailing List List <geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Geoserver does not start up again after tomcat-restart I have had a similar issue migrating from a much older GeoServer version to a new one and my solution was to NOT migrate the data folder in it's entirety but instead to migrate only some components. I won't pretend to understand the underlying issue but it fixed it for me. The components I migrated resulted in me having all of the important stuff in the new GeoServer version and a running GeoServer. I migrated the following in the order specified: * workspaces * security * styles If you want to try this here are the steps: 1. shut down tomcat 2. go to your freshly installed data folder (....your_tomcat/webapps/geoserver/data) 3. mv -rf fullpath_to_your_backup/workspaces/* workspaces/. 4. mv -rf fullpath_to_your_backup/security/* security/. 5. mv -rf fullpath_to_your_backup/styles/* styles/. 6. cd .. 7. chown -R tomcat:tomcat data 8. restart tomcat Hope this helps, Vera On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 9:03 AM Uwe Seher <uwe.se...@gmail.com<mailto:uwe.se...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello group! At the moment i have a hard problem. After a restart of my running tomcat8 the geoserver-application (2.11) did not start up. some other applications (geonetwork, jasper) run as good as before. After that i did an update to 2.15.1, whicht starts up with a clean data-directory. When i copy my old data-dir in the new installation, it does not start up again. in the catalina-log are the following lines, which i think descripbe the error, but i am not able to understand what they want to tell me. Somewhere else i found a reference to the encrytion used (http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/GeoServer-doesn-t-Start-up-td5268309.html), but i wanted to ask someone before i do something weird. The whole logfile can be delievered also. So please, can someone tell me, what happened here? Thanks in advance Uwe Seher 05-Jun-2019 16:21:35.844 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkThreadLocalMapForLeaks The web application [geoserver] created a ThreadLocal with key of type [java.lang.ThreadLocal] (value [j ava.lang.ThreadLocal@437d4b79<mailto:ava.lang.ThreadLocal@437d4b79>]) and a value of type [org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContextImpl] (value [org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContextImpl@ffffffff: Null authentication]) but failed to remov e it when the web application was stopped. Threads are going to be renewed over time to try and avoid a probable memory leak. 05-Jun-2019 16:21:35.858 WARNING [localhost-startStop-1] java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$1.run Couldn't create user preferences directory. User preferences are unusable. 05-Jun-2019 16:21:35.859 WARNING [localhost-startStop-1] java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$1.run java.io.IOException: No such file or directory 05-Jun-2019 16:21:35.875 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkThreadLocalMapForLeaks The web application [geoserver] created a ThreadLocal with key of type [java.lang.ThreadLocal] (value [j ava.lang.ThreadLocal@286a76ba<mailto:ava.lang.ThreadLocal@286a76ba>]) and a value of type [org.geotools.referencing.operation.projection.TransverseMercator.Provider] (value [PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"]]) but failed to remove it when the web application was stopped. Thr eads are going to be renewed over time to try and avoid a probable memory leak. 05-Jun-2019 16:21:35.916 INFO [Finalizer] org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkStateForResourceLoading Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load [org.geotools.metadata.i18n.Lo ggings]. 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