Glassfish in the trenches: How to fix MacOsX startup problems
I don’t really know if this is a new problem (caused by the recent update of the JDK 1.5 for MacOsX) or if it’s an old one, but last night, while writing the domain cheatsheet, I discovered that the asadmin command line has some problems with MacOsX 10.4.x.
Reproducing this bug is simple: just try to create a new domain typing:
asadmin create-domain –adminuser admin –adminport 4848 my-domain-name
Then you’ll be asked to choose the password, but after typing it you’ll obtain an exception:
./bin/asadmin create-domain --adminuser admin --adminport 4848 mydomain
Please enter the admin password>
FATAL ERROR in native method: Bad global or local ref passed to JNI
at com.sun.enterprise.cli.framework.CliUtil.getPassword(Native Method)
at com.sun.enterprise.cli.commands.S1ASCommand.getInteractiveOption(S1ASCommand.java:777)
at com.sun.enterprise.cli.commands.S1ASCommand.getInteractiveOptionWithConfirmation(S1ASCommand.java:742)
at com.sun.enterprise.cli.commands.S1ASCommand.getPassword(S1ASCommand.java:704)
at com.sun.enterprise.cli.commands.CreateDomainCommand.getAdminPassword(CreateDomainCommand.java:136)
at com.sun.enterprise.cli.commands.CreateDomainCommand.runCommand(CreateDomainCommand.java:171)
at com.sun.enterprise.cli.framework.CLIMain.invokeCommand(CLIMain.java:155)
at com.sun.enterprise.cli.framework.CLIMain.main(CLIMain.java:63)
Apparently there isn’t a bugfix yet for this problem, but the Glassfish forum has promptly suggested me a workaround.
So, if you encounter this problem, simply create a glassfish.password file somewhere (i.e. /tmp/glassfish.password) containing two parameters:
AS_ADMIN_ADMINPASSWORD=adminadmin AS_ADMIN_MASTERPASSWORD=adminadmin
Then create the domain using the command:
asadmin create-domain –-adminport 4848 –passwordfile /tmp/glassfish.password my-domain-name
Similarly, you have to start this new domain with the command line:
asadmin start-domain –passwordfile /tmp/glassfish.password my-domain-name
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