Re: 500 error when inviting new blog admin

/usr/share/tomcat8/lib/javax.mail.jar is on disk and in Puppet, but I 
don't see activation.jar anywhere. It's not in the old Puppet repo either.


-Chris T.

On 3/17/21 12:11 PM, Dave wrote:
> 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 <http://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 <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>     > Hi, folks,
>     >
>     > I have just added some people to the Conferences section of
>     blogs.apache.org <http://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.
>     >
>     >
>