PDF Printing without BI - a solution that works

Question

I have used the instruction givein in the follwing post:
http://carlback.blogspot.com/2007/03/apex-cocoon-pdf-and-more.html
Below are my steps
1.) Install java sdk
2.) Create environment variable JAVA_HOME that points to this dir. : JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20
3.) Extract c:\zipfiles\apache-tomcat-6.0.29-windows-x64.zip to the directory where the program will be executed.(D:\ApexPDFPrintserver)
4.) Do the same with cocoon-2.1.11-src.zip and fop_post.zip.
5.) Open a CMD and go to that directory.
6.) Check if the java home is set: (set J should show all environment variables starting with J)
7.) Change directory to the cocoon installation: (D:\ApexPDFPrintserver\cocoon-2.1.11)
8.) Compile the cocoon app by typing the following : D:\ApexPDFPrintserver\cocoon-2.1.11\build war
9.) Copy the cocoon.war file from D:\ApexPDFPrintserver\cocoon-2.1.11\build\cocoon to the appache web apps directory => D:\ApexPDFPrintserver\apache-tomcat-6.0.29\webapps
10.) Edit the server.xml (D:\ApexPDFPrintserver\apache-tomcat-6.0.29\conf) file to change the port on which the server would be available to:8085 (8080 is used by APEX) on this installation
11.) change dir to D:\ApexPDFPrintserver\apache-tomcat-6.0.29\bin and enter startup
12.) Apache will now create a cocoon webapp.
13.) Copy the fop_post dir to D:\ApexPDFPrintserver\apache-tomcat-6.0.29\webapps\cocoon.
14.) You can now test you Tomcat installation: http://localhost:8085/
15.) And the cocoon installation.: http://localhost:8085/cocoon/.
14.) Configure the APEX installation to use this printserver. http://localhost:8080/apex/apex_admin.
15.) The settings can be found at manage Instance => Instance settings = > Select the report printing tab.
16.) Print server: Standard
17.) Print server protocol: HTTP
18.) Printserver host address: this machine's IP
19.) Print server port :8085
20.) Print serverScript: /cocoon/fop_post/
21.) Happy printing!!
Remember to give the parsing user right to access the network.
I have used the same script provided with the APEX installation to give the APEX_0400 user rights to the network.
Have fun
JJB

Answer 1

mgangav wrote:
insanemal wrote:
change to lanuching gdm from your inittab using run-level 5
or remove agetty from tty2
both will resolve the issue.
Actually, how will running gdm from inittab help with this issue?
And I didn't understand what you meant by "remove agetty from tty2"
You know, I am pretty sure that the issue has to be with xorg. I was having this issue a lot a month ago, but then, a certain upgrade of xorg fixed the issue. I was fine for a few weeks. My computer never crashed. But, unfortunatly, a package in that same upgrade was broken and I ended up upgrading the system again a few weeks ago. xorg also upgraded at the same time. Now, my computer keeps crashing randomly and in random ways.
I think that the best thing to do is to keep up with the xorg updates, find one that works for your system and have pacman ignore all upgrades to xorg after that.
Actually, if anyone can tell me how to downgrade xorg to its state 3 weeks ago, it would be absolutely awesome.
Thanks
Because if you use runlevel 5 you dont have agetty on TTY2 so it won't try and kill xorg all the bloody time
The problem is caused because GDM is starting so fast the XORG server it loads up checks for free VT's and finds TTY2 is empty and starts on it. THEN your inittab fires up agetty on TTY2.. which promptly causes hell to arrive in a handbag.
You really need to be less critical of people offering you advice.. and possibly even check what they have posted in the past.. like the threads from months ago dealing with this issue. (search is great you know)