[THREDDS #NOW-469434]: Error while installing THREDDS (TdsContext.init(): Content directory does not exist)

Hi Tyler,

Tyler Erickson wrote:
> I am attempting to install THREDDS on a Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop using Tomcat6
> (installed using the Ubuntu package manager).  When I attempt to install
> THREDDS by either adding a the *.war file to the Tomcat webapps directory
> (/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/), or using the Tomcat Admin interface, I get
> the following error message. THREDDS seems assume there is a directory
> (/var/lib/tomcat6/content) that does not exist for Tomcat6 on Ubuntu.

The user that Tomcat is running as needs to be able to create, if it doesn't 
exist, and write to the ${TOMCAT_HOME}/content directory.

If that isn't possible you can also change the location of the content 
directory as described at the bottom of this page:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/tds4.2/reference/ConfigDirectory.html

Basically, run Tomcat with the following command-line option:

   -Dtds.content.root.path=/some/absolute/path

Hope that helps,

Ethan


> ==========================================
> from /var/log/tomcat6/catalina.out
> ==========================================
> log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger 
> (org.springframework.util.ClassUtils).
> log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
> TdsConfigContextListener.contextInitialized(): start.
> ERROR - TdsContext.init(): Content directory does not exist and could not be 
> created [/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/thredds/../../content/thredds].
> Jan 20, 2011 4:42:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
> SEVERE: Error listenerStart
> Jan 20, 2011 4:42:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
> SEVERE: Context [/thredds] startup failed due to previous errors
> Jan 20, 2011 4:42:09 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader 
> clearReferencesThreads
> SEVERE: The web application [/thredds] appears to have started a thread named 
> [TdsScheduler_Worker-1] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to 
> create a memory leak.
> Jan 20, 2011 4:42:09 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader 
> clearReferencesThreads
> SEVERE: The web application [/thredds] appears to have started a thread named 
> [TdsScheduler_Worker-2] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to 
> create a memory leak.
> Jan 20, 2011 4:42:09 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader 
> clearReferencesThreads
> SEVERE: The web application [/thredds] appears to have started a thread named 
> [TdsScheduler_Worker-3] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to 
> create a memory leak.
> Jan 20, 2011 4:42:09 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader 
> clearReferencesThreads
> SEVERE: The web application [/thredds] appears to have started a thread named 
> [Timer-3] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory 
> leak.
> Jan 20, 2011 4:42:09 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader 
> clearReferencesThreads
> SEVERE: The web application [/thredds] appears to have started a thread named 
> [TdsScheduler_QuartzSchedulerThread] but has failed to stop it. This is very 
> likely to create a memory leak.
> Jan 20, 2011 4:42:09 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader 
> clearThreadLocalMap
> SEVERE: The web application [/thredds] created a ThreadLocal with key of type 
> [org.apache.log4j.helpers.ThreadLocalMap] (value 
> [org.apache.log4j.helpers.ThreadLocalMap@3cd5e270]) and a value of type 
> [java.util.Hashtable] (value [{startTime=1295566929296, ID=1}]) but failed to 
> remove it when the web application was stopped. This is very likely to create 
> a memory leak.
> 
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: NOW-469434
Department: Support THREDDS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed