Production mode startup failure for 8.1SP2

Question

I'm running BEA WL 8.1 on Windows 2000 and have created a new server configuration
in production mode with JRocket using the Configuration Wizard through Express
Setup. I am unable to successfully start the server manually or through the Workshop
interface. Below is the exception stack trace. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
<> <000000> <Error in startup class com.bea.wli.init.WLIDBCreate Method: init:
com.bea.wli.init.WLIDBCreateException: At least one WLI data base object (TABLE
WLI_USER) was missing
     at com.bea.wli.init.WLIDBCreate$WLIDataSource.checkDBObjects(WLIDBCreate.java:875)
     at com.bea.wli.init.WLIDBCreate.init(WLIDBCreate.java:994)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
     at com.bea.wli.init.BPMStartupShutdown.invoke(BPMStartupShutdown.java:324)
     at com.bea.wli.init.BPMStartupShutdown.startup(BPMStartupShutdown.java:189)
     at com.bea.wli.init.BPMStartup.main(BPMStartup.java:23)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
     at weblogic.t3.srvr.StartupClassService.invokeMain(StartupClassService.java:229)
     at weblogic.t3.srvr.StartupClassService.invokeClass(StartupClassService.java:160)
     at weblogic.t3.srvr.StartupClassService.access$000(StartupClassService.java:36)
     at weblogic.t3.srvr.StartupClassService$1.run(StartupClassService.java:121)
     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:317)
     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:118)
     at weblogic.t3.srvr.StartupClassService.invokeStartupClass(StartupClassService.java:116)
     at weblogic.t3.srvr.StartupClassService.addDeployment(StartupClassService.java:88)
     at weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.addDeployment(DeploymentTarget.java:330)
     at weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.addDeployments(DeploymentTarget.java:590)
     at weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.updateServerDeployments(DeploymentTarget.java:568)
     at weblogic.management.mbeans.custom.DeploymentTarget.updateDeployments(DeploymentTarget.java:240)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
     at weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invokeLocally(DynamicMBeanImpl.java:711)
     at weblogic.management.internal.DynamicMBeanImpl.invoke(DynamicMBeanImpl.java:690)
     at weblogic.management.internal.ConfigurationMBeanImpl.invoke(ConfigurationMBeanImpl.java:476)
     at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1557)
     at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1525)
     at weblogic.management.internal.RemoteMBeanServerImpl.private_invoke(RemoteMBeanServerImpl.java:947)
     at weblogic.management.internal.RemoteMBeanServerImpl.invoke(RemoteMBeanServerImpl.java:908)
     at weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:946)
     at weblogic.management.internal.MBeanProxy.invokeForCachingStub(MBeanProxy.java:481)
     at weblogic.management.configuration.ServerMBean_Stub.updateDeployments(ServerMBean_Stub.java:7271)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer.updateServerDeployments(SlaveDeployer.java:1210)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer.resume(SlaveDeployer.java:362)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.DeploymentManagerServerLifeCycleImpl.resume(DeploymentManagerServerLifeCycleImpl.java:229)
     at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemManager.resume(SubsystemManager.java:131)
     at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.resume(T3Srvr.java:964)
     at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:359)
     at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:32)

Answer 1

Thanks, I fixed the problem following the steps you outlined.
All that was needed was to create a database named Workshop, and then execute the scripts as explained.
For the benefit of others here is what I followed before going by your suggestion:
1. Go to: weblogic81\common\eval\pointbase\tools
2. Start pointbase by executing: startPointBase.cmd
(edit this file if it should run on any specific port that you require e.g 9093)
3. Under the same directory, execute: startPointBaseConsole.cmd so that the pointbase console comes up.
4.Click on the radio button: Create new database
5. In the dialog box, specify URL as:
jdbc:pointbase:server://localhost:9093/workshop
(I used port 9093 on localhost)
6. specify username and password
7. Click OK.
Now follow the steps on the links below:
http://forums.bea.com/bea/thread.jspa?messageID=202437477&tstart=0
or
http://www.webservertalk.com/message148326.html
Also, it does not matter whether you start the server in prod. mode or dev mode as this DB lookup is before you specify dev mode or prod. mode startup while creating the domain (when you test connection through config. wizard while creating the domain). I created the domain in custom mode and not in express mode to have greater visibility of what I am configuring (On Windows env.).
Rommel Sharma.