Comments on: Is this a Coldfusion 8 BUG

By: Barb

Barb — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:57:34 +0000

I’m having the same problem . . . when I start CF8, it seems to hang during or just after the user MessageBrokerServlet:init command.

I took Joao’s suggestion, reinstalled, and chose not to install the LCDS portion of the install. Now I can get past that command in the startup, but it hangs two commands later at user CFInternalServet:init.

Ugh.

By: Jo￣o Fernandes

Jo￣o Fernandes — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:28:02 +0000

Phil, when you install CF8 they give you an option to install LCDS within CF. The messageBrokerServlet is responsible to handle all remoting/messaging/data management data exchange between Flex and CF (or LCDS). If the messageBrokerServlet takes that long to start up, it might be some LCDS related feature that is hanging the system and that’s why I was asking if you opted in LCDS during installation.

By: Phil Porter

Phil Porter — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:13:59 +0000

Thanks Tom and Jo￣o: Tom, I set coldfusion to run last in the bootup. I have even tried disabling it on bootup and running it from the command line, but the problem still exists. Jo￣o, I’m not sure what you mean by integrated LCDS? – The problem is very strange and I’m wondering if its something to do with the kernel as I have another Centos Server with similar settings that doesn’t have a problem. I decided to change my distribution to Suse 10.3 and all seems fine now. I must admit though I wish I knew what was causing this. Is there anyway to debug whats going on when the MessageBrokerServlet starts?

By: Jo￣o Fernandes

Jo￣o Fernandes — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:18:06 +0000

Phil,
1ﾺ are you using integrated LCDS?
2ﾺ can you comment the MessageBrokerServlet from the web.xml (and related mapping etc) and see if the problem persists?

By: Tom Chiverton

Tom Chiverton — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:58:31 +0000

Does it try to start ColdFusion before networking, for instance ?
What if you remove the rc*.d entries and place the call to the CF startup script in /etc/rc.local (or CentOS equiv.) directly – thus starting CF after all the init.d stuff has run ?

By: Phil Porter

Phil Porter — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:27:37 +0000

Hi James – how are you? Thanks for the reply and pointer. I switched the system over to Java 1.5, but the problem still exists. I think it has something to do with Flex probing the system, but i’m at a loss as to what is really going on. Its very strange as when you first install cf8 it works with no stalling, but when you reboot the system it always stalls (for about an hour) and then is fine?

By: James Netherton

James Netherton — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:43:19 +0000

Could this have anything to do with it?

http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/Java_6_and_ColdFusion_8