GeoNetwork under jetty starts, stops and restarts badly/fails on first run after installation

[simonp]

This is very disconcerting for a new user as GN needs to be stopped and restarted to fix. Only happens on first run after installation - thereafter everything seems normal.

I'm kind of surprised this hasn't been reported elsewhere/before? Happens on windows 7 and Linux x86_64 - jdk1.6

[heikki]

I've seen it doing a 'restart' often, but never needed to actually stop and restart once it finished the starting-up business.

[simonp]

Heikki - thanks for confirming this! I've seen:

• permgen memory exceeded (server stalls)
• database connection problems eg. java.sql.SQLException: Data source is closed (comes with stack trace on apache dbcp)

[simonp]

Jetty monitoring web/geonetwork, servlet creates dir in here for file uploads, causes servlet to stop and then restart. Fix is to copy the data dir from the release dir in the installer to the correct place.

Fixed in commit 2fed62a80acfd44b5a6d024d5d9e350d1ab1eabb