GRUB: file not found

Firstly if this is not the right place for this thread feel free to move it, I wasn't sure if it need be here or in installation.
My Debian installation 'died' (my own fault) however I was ready for a change anyway so I took the oppertunity to try arch out as I would prefer to use a 'faster' moving OS. So I followed the installation procedure and after rebooting my system post install I just get GRUB: file not found, then the grub rescue prompt.
I have an unavoidable windows partition on the system that has to be there for development reasons.
I have a 50Mb boot partition for grub, as well as a root partition and home partition, the latter two are logical.
fdisk -l yeilds:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x26951e29
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 22450 180224000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 22450 22456 48195 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 22456 38913 132193053+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 * 22456 29751 58597056 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 29751 38670 71641836 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 38670 38913 1954067 82 Linux swap / Solaris
note I only have one actual disk 'sda'
my grub's menu.lst in sda3 /grub/menu.lst is:
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda5 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda5 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
# (2) Windows
#title Windows
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1
Note I have removed the comments at the top for the sake of space.
some other information that might be of use.
sda3 ls of /grub/
e2fs_stage1_5
fat_stage1_5
ffs_stage1_5
iso9660_stage1_5
jfs_stage1_5
menu.lst
minix_stage1_5
reiserfs_stage1_5
stage1
stage2
stage2_eltorito
ufs2_stage1_5
vstafs_stage1_5
xfs_stage1_5
sda3 ls of /
grub kernel26-fallback.img kernel26.img kernel26-lts-fallback.img kernel26-lts.img lost+found System.map26 System.map26-lts vmlinuz26 vmlinuz26-lts
finally ls of sda5 rt partion
bin boot dev etc home lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var
sorry if a lot of that is redundant and let me know if I can provide any more info to assist the problem, I really need this system woking, also if could get access back to the Windows partition that would be a major plus.
Thanks again
Last edited by 651bobby (2011-06-06 11:07:59)

651bobby wrote:
Hi thanks for your reply.
I have a more general question, when I install grub is grub supposed to install something to the first 512 or whatever bytes of the HDD to point to where the boot loader actually is?
The way I have a feeling it may have done this to the start of sda3 rather than sda. When I do a grub-install I get a 'Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device'
I am getting to the point where I reckon my machine is fubar-ed enough not to bother trying to save it it's current state, :S
I would bet that your MBR (first sector of your disk) contains remnants of your debian grub. Debian uses grub2 which is notorious for wanting to decide it all - me, I far prefer grub legacy ... then _you_ (or _I_ as the case might be) is in complete control! (end rant)
If you have only _one_ linux - then it's ok to install grub (or grub2) on the MBR. If you have more than one, I would strongly suggest that you install to the first sector of the root (or /boot) filesystem. Actually, if you have more than one - I wouldn't bother about a seperate boot-partition, you will just end up in confusion as to which /boot belongs to which distro.
Seeing you also have 'that other OS', I would use the standard dos-loader on the MBR - this will look for one (and only one) active partition amongst the primary ones. In that case you can happily install arch's grub on sda3 (as in your case) and make this the active partition (boot-flag is set).
However, there is also no problems involved in putting it on the MBR - instructions are given below:
# installing grub on the mbr
grub
grub> root (hd0,2) ## seeing your /boot-partition is on sda3
grub> setup (hd0) ## install to MBR
grub> quit
# installing grub on sda3
grub
grub> root (hd0,2)
grub> setup (hd0,2)
grub> quit
In the latter case, you have to use fdisk to toggle the boot-flag so that sda3 is the 'active' partition.
The above is just my very personal opinion and there will be numerous others that think _their_ way is the best *shrug* Each to his or her own ...
Last edited by perbh (2011-06-06 17:46:20)

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Last edited by bilgee0629 (2011-04-16 07:22:25)

First thing to do, Assuming an Error 15: file not found, would be to check your grub's menu.lst to make sure that it is referencing the correct partition and vmlinuz26. If you have a separate boot partition it should reference that partition and just use /vmlinuz26 (as explained on the following thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56251). However if everything there seems correct, you will have to post more information for people to help you, such as the contents of /etc/fstab along with your menu.list.
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Last edited by retzu (2012-04-16 14:16:02)

I have the same error message as in the first post. "error: file not found" listed three times when I first choose Arch from the Grub2 menu. The solution linked to by the.ridikulus.rat would not seem to apply as I do not have the locales en* in /boot/grub/locale BTW, I am in the US. The system does boot though.
I just fixed this a few seconds ago and was going to post how, basically I just did "cp /boot/grub/locale/[email protected] /boot/grub/locale/en_US.mo" which seem to do the trick, the reason I didn't fix this sooner is the error only stays up for a very small fraction of a second making it hard to read.
# ls /boot/grub/locale
ast.mo da.mo fi.mo hu.mo it.mo nl.mo ru.mo uk.mo zh_CN.mo
ca.mo de.mo fr.mo id.mo ko.mo pl.mo sv.mo vi.mo
EDIT: I get the same three "error: file not found" messages when I boot Fedora (a multiboot system). This is with grub2 installed from Arch Linux.
Last edited by David Batson (2012-05-02 20:03:41)

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# 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
# 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
# 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# for more details and different resolutions see
# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_resolution
# general configuration:
timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/9157e8a3-c1bd-499a-95fe-524cd9c07d0e ro
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/9157e8a3-c1bd-499a-95fe-524cd9c07d0e ro
initrd /initramfs-linux-fallback.img
# (2) Windows
#title Windows
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1
/etc/fstab file looks like
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
#UUID=15eb5a8a-dddc-4b28-8183-f81d450b78d5 swap swap defaults 0 0
#UUID=9157e8a3-c1bd-499a-95fe-524cd9c07d0e / ext3 defaults 0 1
#UUID=aae9fb61-b5ec-40b5-a3dd-232c9a77f29b /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
#UUID=f1a9a9ad-8344-4eb5-be91-1af155c756e4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=15eb5a8a-dddc-4b28-8183-f81d450b78d5 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=9157e8a3-c1bd-499a-95fe-524cd9c07d0e / ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=aae9fb61-b5ec-40b5-a3dd-232c9a77f29b /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=f1a9a9ad-8344-4eb5-be91-1af155c756e4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
and result of #blikd is
/dev/sda1: UUID="edc30674-5e24-46ae-865c-647b5af6a1ca" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="8045e664-17ad-4bfd-8b5e-56d7f17fbcdd" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="aae9fb61-b5ec-40b5-a3dd-232c9a77f29b" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="15eb5a8a-dddc-4b28-8183-f81d450b78d5" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb3: UUID="9157e8a3-c1bd-499a-95fe-524cd9c07d0e" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb4: UUID="f1a9a9ad-8344-4eb5-be91-1af155c756e4" TYPE="ext3"

Here is the result of my fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 100 102384 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 101 356 262144 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3 357 1533 1205248 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 1534 1926 402432 83 Linux
Last edited by manish411 (2012-01-14 05:24:14)

Solaris 10 boot error 15 file not found

During a reboot to one of our solaris 10 servers when it reboots it comes up with this error message
Findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
     Filesystem type is zfs, partition type 0xbf
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/multiboot -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
loading '/platform/i86pc/multiboot -B $ZFS-BootFS' ....
Error 15: File not found
press any key to continue...
The grub file menu.lst content is as follows
#pragma ident   "@(#)menu.lst   1.2     10/06/11 SMI"
default 0
timeout 10
# Uncomment the following line to enable GRUB splashimage on console
splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ----------
title Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 s10x_u11wos_24a X86
findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/multiboot -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
#---------------------END BOOTADM--------------------
#---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ----------
title Solaris failsafe
findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
kernel /boot/multiboot -s
module /boot/amd64/x86.miniroot-safe
#---------------------END BOOTADM--------------------
During a shell session using a recovery disk i mount the rpool to /a , if I do a zpool status it comes back that rpool mirror-0 with both disks are online
rpool          ONLINE
mirror-0      ONLINE
c0t0d0s0      ONLINE
c0t1d0s0      ONLINE
However if I do a zpool import it shows
rpool          UNAVAIL     insufficient replicas
mirror-0     UNAVAIL     insufficient replicas
     c0t0d0s0 FAULTED   corrupted data
     c0t1d0s8 UNAVAIL    corrupted data
This is highly confusing
Any help would be much appreciated

What's confusing to me is that the second disk in this mirrored root pool shows c0t1d0s0 in one output and c0t1d0s8 is another output. I hope this is a typo. Otherwise, you need to find out why this device path changed. Its look like the primary disk is faulted. FMA will tell you if the disk is faulted and whether the second disk's device path changed. You will have to boot from media or an install server.
Thanks, Cindy

[SOLVED]getting "error 15: file not found!"

Hi all, I'm new to Arch and linux in general but i've managed so far and I'm really enjoying it.
I'm dual booting Arch and Vista.
Anyway, everything was working fine until I decided that I wanted to stop using GRUB as my bootloader and I used a program called EasyBCD and this guide http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista … htm?page=4
Now, I get "Error 15: File not found!" when i try to boot into arch. I've looked through countless other threads and google results with people with the same problem but none of the solutions in those threads helped me.
here's my menu.lst
# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst
# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
# Linux Grub
# /dev/fd0 (fd0)
# /dev/sda (hd0)
# /dev/sdb2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/sda3 (hd0,2)
# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
# ----+--------------------------------------------
# 256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775
# 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
# 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
# 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# for more details and different resolutions see
# http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_Resolution
# general configuration:
timeout 3
default 2
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/6e30f601-1196-41bf-b9f3-063434fa0c45 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/6e30f601-1196-41bf-b9f3-063434fa0c45 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
# (2) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Last edited by tooeasyforkevin (2009-07-13 06:48:38)

ok, try doing it the manual way by booting the cd as if you where to do an installation where it prompts you to log in as root.
Once your logged in as root do
grub
and you will get the grub prompt
grub>
then the at the grub> prompt do
grub> root (hd0,2)
that tells grub it will find the boot files on the 3rd partition of the 1st hard drive. Then,
grub> setup (hd0)
to setup the grub bootloader on the MBR of the first hard drive.
If all goes well you should see something like 'Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes '.
grub> quit
and reboot.

After kernel upgrade "file not found"

I upgraded to kernel version 3 and I rebooted but I didn't do anything in menu.lst, because I thought symlinks would work, so I rebooted but it didn't work. I tried to boot changing names in grub menu but I'm always getting same error "file not found" and I don't know what else to do. I can see the vmlinuz-linux but I can't see initramfs-linux file in /boot from a Live CD. Can you share your menu.lst to try them please.

tbuitenh wrote:
I ran into the same problem. I bookmarked this thread earlier, sorry if the problem has been solved in another one and I didn't notice it.
After putting back the kernel and ramdisk from a backup (using different filenames) and downgrading the kernel (mkinitcpio doesn't work, that's why I had to take the ramdisk from a backup), I was able to get back into my system.
I found a mkinitcpio.conf.pacnew, but no significant changes in there. Applied them anyway.
So let's try that again...
sudo pacman -Syu
(3/5) installing linux [######################] 100%
>>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
/tmp/alpm_kwQ6VA/.INSTALL: line 10: depmod: command not found
>>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
/tmp/alpm_kwQ6VA/.INSTALL: line 12: mkinitcpio: command not found
Optional dependencies for linux
crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country
That doesn't look healthy. Perhaps a path problem?
[tb@progress ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@progress ~]# pacman -S linux
warning: linux-3.0.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (1): linux-3.0.1-1
Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 54.55 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(1/1) checking package integrity [######################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [######################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading linux [######################] 100%
>>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
>>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
==> Building image from preset: 'default'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 3.0-ARCH
-> Parsing hook: [base]
-> Parsing hook: [udev]
-> Parsing hook: [autodetect]
-> Parsing hook: [sata]
-> Parsing hook: [resume]
-> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
-> Parsing hook: [consolefont]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating xz initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
6472 blocks
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 3.0-ARCH
-> Parsing hook: [base]
-> Parsing hook: [udev]
-> Parsing hook: [sata]
-> Parsing hook: [resume]
-> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
-> Parsing hook: [consolefont]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating xz initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
13946 blocks
==> Image generation successful
[root@progress ~]# ls -l /boot
total 12484
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 15 12:18 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5216044 Aug 15 12:41 initramfs-linux-fallback.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1460104 Aug 15 12:41 initramfs-linux.img
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 26 2011 memtest86+
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1453292 Jul 11 19:22 offmylawn.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2333056 Aug 6 16:22 vmlinuz-linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2305152 Jul 9 15:00 vmlinuz-offmylawn
That's better. I'll reboot now and see what happens.
@tbuitenh: I encountered this same situation today when I tried to update linux-ck-corei7 from 3.0.4-1 to 3.0.4-2. Like you, running pacman after "su -" (instead of "su") permitted me to complete the update.
I figure this has to do with default login path, right? What exactly is going on here, and how can I fix it? I don't normally run pacman this way.
Last edited by dhave (2011-09-22 23:07:53)

Can not boot into Xen: Error 15 File not found

Hi,
When i boot Arch then there is no problem but selecting Xen will result in Error 15: file not found. I checked /boot and all the files are there. There is also no typo. Why is that ?
This is my /boot/grub/menu.lst
timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
# (1) Xen dom0
title Xen 3.4.1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=1024000
module /vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen0 root=/dev/sda3 ro
module /xen0.img
lamnk:~% ls /boot
System.map-2.6.18.8-xen0 config-2.6.18.8-xen0 kernel26-fallback.img vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xenU xen-3.4.gz@ xen.gz@ xenU-fallback.img
System.map-2.6.18.8-xenU config-2.6.18.8-xenU kernel26.img vmlinuz26 xen-3.gz@ xen0-fallback.img xenU.img
System.map26 grub/ vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen0 xen-3.4.1.gz xen-syms-3.4.1 xen0.img

Uhm, because all the files reside in /boot so it should have the same root, no ? The boot partion for Xen is also for Linux so i think it's pretty much bootable ...
PS: and this is not a multiple disks setup. I'm running Arch on my laptop.
Last edited by lamnk (2009-09-28 12:14:44)

Booting 'Arch Linux' Error 15: File not found

Booting 'Arch Linux'
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=792
Error 15: File not found
Press any key to continue...
It's the message that Grub send me choose any option.
Can I solve or I need to format and reinstall?

donniezazen,
Note that you responded to a three year old thread. I cannot tell if you are having a problem, but I doubt this thread has any bearing on it.
Closing. If you are having an issue, please open a new thread. Our policy
Thanks

[SOLVED]Dual boot Grub2 : file not found

here is my config :
Ubuntu 11.1 installed on sd1. It is my default system, and where the GRUB2 config is.
I installed Archlinux on sd2, with /boot on (hd1,1) and / on (hd1,2).
I want to set up GRUB to boot both systems.
here is my /etc/grub.d/11_linux_arch, in the Ubuntu system :
#!/bin/sh -e
echo "Adding Archlinux"
cat << EOF
menuentry "ArchLinux" {
set root=(hd1,2)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
EOF
vmlinux-linux and initramfs-linux.img are well in my /boot folder on (hd1,1)
At grub prompt, I can see Archlinux as an option. When I select it, I get an error message, "file not found".
I can't see where is an error.
TY for any help.
Last edited by gabx (2011-11-29 22:41:11)

Here is what I added to /etc/grub.d/40_custom
# Arch Linux
menuentry "Arch Linux" {
set root=(hd1,1)
linux /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/38616db1-366f-40f4-a728-1230e81abb21 ro
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
I think telling the uuid is better but /dev/sdb2 (my / partition) works too.
Then :
#sudo update-grub
and I have been able to dual boot Archlinux and Ubuntu 11.10.
The resolution is bad, so I will add a line about it, but I guess it is not diificult.

JBO:33001 bc4j.xcfg file not found in class path

Hi,
I am yet another victim of the age-old error JBO:33001 bc4j.xcfg file not found in class path, When i have my BC4JApp.jar in Tomcat Web-inf/lib directory. All the other jar files and class files in my webserver-application web-inf classes and lib directory works.
But Tomcat server is not able to read this bc4j.xcfg file. I can see in my jar file that this bc4j.xcfg exists and in the specified package directory. still the problem persists. My BC4JApp.jar is perfectly working when i use JDeveloper. but not when i use tomcat4.0 and call a JSP using BC4JApp.jar from browser (My environment is Jdeveloper3.2, Tomcat4.0+IIS in middle tier and oracle 8i as DB, everything on windows2k)
I have gone through almost all the threads possible that relates to this error in this form. None of them have a answer except to say "put the file in classpath". and last reply is "will fix in jDeveloper 9i. So what happens to us who are working in Jdeveloper 3.2?
1. I have this file in my jar file.
2. I also tried creating a seperate directory manually, with the same name as my package under web-inf/classes, web-inf/lib , just under web-inf directory and atlast under approot directory also. I tried having my package directory containing bc4j.xcfg in these folders one at a time and also tried having this directory in all these folders at the same time.
Still no solution.
Itz frustrating that neither proper documentation nor a right url page nor i am aware of available addressing this. page links given in above threads only gives me the wonderful page of ie's "Page cannot be displayed".
Is there a answer to this error and my problem. If this doesn't work, then i have to all the way develop from scratch creating my jsp using JDBC calls and Stored packages etc.
I don't want to give up on this Jdeveloper at this final moment because if this bc4j.xcfg file is found, my application will work perfectly. on these final moments, if this doesn't work, i am frightened to imagine to develop my application in standard way. Atlast, if thatz the option left,we have to do that bcos our production date is close by.
Please can some one in this forum or Jdeveloper help me to solve this problem. I am desperate and very urgent.
Waiting for a reply from Jdev team very much...
( I just posted in the other thread which is pretty old, dated backto May 2001, which was relevant to this error. Just to make sure it is noticed, I am posting it seperately too)
Thanks
Hari(2/3/02)

Hi All,
For those who are following this thread, I got a solution for this error with the help of Jdev Team.
This solution may work, if you have deployed your application in Tomcat4.0.1. This is the environment in which I work and tested.
As you may be aware, Tomcat ignores value in CLASSPATH variable.
To see any files that are existing or newly deployed, it has it own way of detecting it.
Addition information on Tomcat working, you can follow this link,
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/index.html
Coming to point, Tomcat has got five classloaders and each classloader invoked, looks in their related directories for files in following order.
1. /WEB-INF/classes of your web-application
2. /WEB-INF/lib/*.jar of your web application
3. BootStrap classes of your JVM (Tomcat's $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext)
4. System class loader classes($CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar,CATALINA_HOME/lib/tools.jar)
5. $CATALINA_HOME/common/classes
6. $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/*.jar
7. $CATALINA_HOME//classes
8. $CATALINA_HOME/lib/*.jar
So All your individual application related files should be deployed in your application's WEB-INF/classes or WEB-INF/lib directory accordingly.
If your application files are unpacked, they should be deployed or copied under WEB-INF/classes directory
if the files are within a jar, they should be under WEB-INF/lib directory.
If your Jar-files contains bc4j components, then those jar files should be deployed under WEB-INF/lib directory. Also,do the next step to copy all relavant BC4J runtime libraries under lib directory.
IMPORTANT: Please remember to copy and paste all the required BC4j runtime libraries in the Same WEB-INF/lib directory along with your application jar files. This is the real reason which can solve this JBO:33001 to disappear. It worked for me.
To configure your directory for tag-lib uri's, use web.xml to set the taglib-uri attribute.
Put your web.xml and DataTags.tld in the WEB-INF directory.
Your simple web.xml may look like as follows.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
     <taglib>
          <taglib-uri>
               /webapp/DataTags.tld
          </taglib-uri>
          <taglib-location>
               /WEB-INF/DataTags.tld
          </taglib-location>
     </taglib>
</web-app>
You may then modify this web.xml to suit further requirements of your application.
Remember to stop and restart the Tomcat Server (service) by using shutdown and startup scripts after updating any jar files/class files/ JSP or source files deployed in Tomcat.
Sometimes, only this helps even though your context's reloadable attribute is set to true in Tomcat Server's server.xml file.
Hope this above information helps you to solve this error in Tomcat environment. My Sincere thanks once again to Juan and Jdev team for their help and efforts to solve this problem.
Thanks
Hari

Error on WWI server EHS_GLM_GENSERV: Results file not found on production

Hi Experts,
I need some help/advice. We have issues with our new EH&S WWI server.
This new setup working OK with Dev and QA (the WWI and GLM part is just fine), We did try to link this server to production then it gives below error.
Only difference between existing WWI QA and production server is that
Existing QA and development WWI server installed at location C:\Program Files (x86)\EHS\WWI
And Same path maintain on new server C:\Program Files (x86)\EHS\WWI
But existing production WWI server installation path is different C:\Program Files\EHS\WWI
So is there any customizing changes required from SAP side to avoid this error on production
Can you please advise on this.
================================================================================
Error on WWI server EHS_GLM_GENSERV: Results file not found
Message no. C$830
Diagnosis
The results file of the generation was not found on the WWI server EHS_GLM_GENSERV.
System Response
Generation was not carried out.
Procedure
Advise your system administrator to check the WWI installation on the WWI server EHS_GLM_GENSERV.
Check the Windows event log on the WWI generation server. The event log may contain other error messages.
SAP Note 1058521 provides possible solutions for this error.
==================================================================================
Log shows
============================================================================================================================================
E000 Error: OLE Exception (-2146823114) from Word8_OpenDoc (docs.Open) by Microsoft Word: This file could not be found. (C:\Windows\...\r00000000000001422051.rtf) (HRESULT Code:5174)
E000 Error opening document (Word8_OpenDoc: Documents.Open failed)
================================================================================================================================================

Hello Gajanan,
the path of the temporay workfolder can be configured in the IMG. Often this path is setup as the WWI server installed location but it is just a temporay workfolder which must exist on the WWI server. The path can be configured under:
For ECC 6.0 Ehp 0-2 and lower
Environment, Health and Safety -> Basic Data and Tools -> Basic Settings -> Specify Environment Parameters
For ECC 6.0 Ehp 3-6
Environment, Health and Safety -> Product Safety -> Global Label Management -> Make Settings for Basic Data
For ECC 6.0 Ehp 7
Environment, Health and Safety -> Global Label Management -> Set Basic Data and Tools for Global Label Management -> Make Settings for Basic Data

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