Error starting Portal or Commerce Server when Configured for Oracle

Question

I've been attempting to configure Portal 4.0 to work with Oracle. I'm running Oracle
8i. I carefully followed the instructions found in "Configuring WebLogic Portal for
Oracle Databases". Specifically, I setup the tablespaces, connection pools and successfully
run the scripts to populate the tables. I am confident the Oracle OCI driver is configured
properly (have done this many times). However, after I make all of the necessary
changes and launch the server, I receive the following error:
Starting WebLogic Server ....
<Jun 26, 2002 4:47:32 AM PDT> <Notice> <Management> <Loading configuration file .\config\wlcsDomain\config.xml
..> <Jun 26, 2002 4:47:39 AM PDT> <Emergency> <Server> <Unable to initialize the
server: 'Fatal initialization exception
Throwable: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: Exception[com.bea.p13n.security.realm.RDBMSException:
An error occured creating a database connection for the realm.]
java.lang.IllegalAccessError: Exception[com.bea.p13n.security.realm.RDBMSException:
An error occured creating a database connection for the realm.]
at weblogic.security.acl.Realm.getRealm(Realm.java:91)
at weblogic.security.acl.Realm.getRealm(Realm.java:62)
at weblogic.security.SecurityService.initializeRealm(SecurityService.java:258)
at weblogic.security.SecurityService.initialize(SecurityService.java:115)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initialize(T3Srvr.java:402)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:202)
at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:35)
'>
The WebLogic Server did not start up properly.
Exception raised:
java.lang.IllegalAccessError: Exception[com.bea.p13n.security.realm.RDBMSException:
An error occured creating a database connection for the realm.]
at weblogic.security.acl.Realm.getRealm(Realm.java:91)
at weblogic.security.acl.Realm.getRealm(Realm.java:62)
at weblogic.security.SecurityService.initializeRealm(SecurityService.java:258)
at weblogic.security.SecurityService.initialize(SecurityService.java:115)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initialize(T3Srvr.java:402)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:202)
at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:35)
Reason: Fatal initialization exception
The startup appears to have trouble with the RDBMS security realm. I tried a) leaving
the settings "as-is", configured for Cloudscape, or b) modified to point to my instance
of Oracle (are their additional things I need to load in Oracle to support it using
the RDBMS realm). Is there a way I can disable the security realm to at least get
the server up-and-running (via the web.xml). I've installed and reinstalled many
times, trying various combinations of things.
Any help would be hugely appreciated!
Thanks,
jeff

Answer 1

I finally found this bug in the release notes, i'm surprised one of the bea guys couldn't
answer this....
"Mike Friesen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
I had the same type of problem with portal 4.0. Trying downloading the
newest 7.0, I found it works much better.
Mike
"K C" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
I found this as well. However, i still am not able to run the portal afterconfiguring
for oracle. While running create_all, i get many errors like "can binda
LONG value
only for insert into a LONG column"
the table are being created, this appears to occur in the "insertingrequired bootstrap
data" phase.
thanks
"Joshua Davies" <[email protected]> wrote:
You probably followed the instructions too closely. I had the same
problem,
due to
something that's not quite a "bug" in the installation instructions.Look
back at
the section "Update Settings for the RDBMS Security Realm" in thedeployment
guide
(http://edocs.bea.com/wlp/docs40/deploygd/oraclnew.htm#1039294).
In the table in step 2, they show the URL on top, and the Driverclassname
underneath
it. HOWEVER... on the actual data screen, the Driver is on top and the
URL is underneath
it. If you're not being very very careful, it's easy to swap thesetwo
values
and put the URL in the Driver input box and the Driver in the URL input
box. Make
sure you haven't accidentally done this; if you have, you can stillchange
this in
the config.xml file (do a text search for an element RDBMSRealm withan
"name" attribute
of "wlcsRealm").
Verify that it looks like this:
<RDBMSRealm DatabaseDriver="weblogic.jdbc.oci.Driver"
DatabaseURL="jdbc:weblogic:oracle"
Name="wlcsRealm"
and not this:
<RDBMSRealm DatabaseDriver="jdbc:weblogic:oracle"
DatabaseURL="weblogic.jdbc.oci.Driver"
Name="wlcsRealm"
Very subtle gotcha...
"Jeff Davis" <[email protected]> wrote:
I've been attempting to configure Portal 4.0 to work with Oracle. I'm
running
Oracle
8i. I carefully followed the instructions found in "Configuring WebLogic
Portal for
Oracle Databases". Specifically, I setup the tablespaces, connectionpools
and successfully
run the scripts to populate the tables. I am confident the Oracle OCIdriver
is configured
properly (have done this many times). However, after I make all of thenecessary
changes and launch the server, I receive the following error:
Starting WebLogic Server ....
<Jun 26, 2002 4:47:32 AM PDT> <Notice> <Management> <Loading
configuration
file .\config\wlcsDomain\config.xml
...> <Jun 26, 2002 4:47:39 AM PDT> <Emergency> <Server> <Unable toinitialize
the
server: 'Fatal initialization exception
Throwable: java.lang.IllegalAccessError:Exception[com.bea.p13n.security.realm.RDBMSException:
An error occured creating a database connection for the realm.]
java.lang.IllegalAccessError:Exception[com.bea.p13n.security.realm.RDBMSException:
An error occured creating a database connection for the realm.]
at weblogic.security.acl.Realm.getRealm(Realm.java:91)
at weblogic.security.acl.Realm.getRealm(Realm.java:62)
atweblogic.security.SecurityService.initializeRealm(SecurityService.java:258)
atweblogic.security.SecurityService.initialize(SecurityService.java:115)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initialize(T3Srvr.java:402)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:202)
at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:35)
'>
The WebLogic Server did not start up properly.
Exception raised:
java.lang.IllegalAccessError:Exception[com.bea.p13n.security.realm.RDBMSException:
An error occured creating a database connection for the realm.]
at weblogic.security.acl.Realm.getRealm(Realm.java:91)
at weblogic.security.acl.Realm.getRealm(Realm.java:62)
atweblogic.security.SecurityService.initializeRealm(SecurityService.java:258)
atweblogic.security.SecurityService.initialize(SecurityService.java:115)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initialize(T3Srvr.java:402)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:202)
at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:35)
Reason: Fatal initialization exception
The startup appears to have trouble with the RDBMS security realm. Itried
a) leaving
the settings "as-is", configured for Cloudscape, or b) modified to point
to my instance
of Oracle (are their additional things I need to load in Oracle tosupport
it using
the RDBMS realm). Is there a way I can disable the security realm toat
least get
the server up-and-running (via the web.xml). I've installed andreinstalled
many
times, trying various combinations of things.
Any help would be hugely appreciated!
Thanks,
jeff