[Dspace-general] problem with ant fresh_install, Error installing configuration files

[Simon Mackey]

Hi dspace community,

I have just attempted an install of dspace (and its required software), I have followed the instructions in the dspace documentation 1.2-1, and I have successfully gotten as far as the 'ant fresh_install' command, but that has not worked yet for me. The error I get is to do with configuration files not being found, i think it's the 'log4j-handle-plugin.properties' file that it is complaining about. I have checked that that file and all other config files are in the /dspace/config/templates/ directory (where '/dspace' is my [dspace-install] directory). There are four files there, the same ones that are in the [dspace-source]/config/templates/ directory. So I don't think there are any files missing, but I could be wrong. I have tried giving everyone full permissions on the [dspace-install] directory but that didnt help (my box is isolated, security's not a problem).

My configuration is: Mandrake Linux 8.2, PostgreSQL 7.4.5, Apache-ant 1.6.2, Jakarta-Tomcat 5.0.28, J2SDK 1.4.2_05, dspace 1.2, jaf 1.0.2, javamail 1.3.1.
The error message is at the bottom of this email.

Does anyone have any idea what might be the problem? 

Thanks for any help,
Simon Mackey.


fresh_install:
     [java] 2004-10-08 13:04:34,699 INFO org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager @ Installing configuration files for other tools
     [java] 2004-10-08 13:04:34,750 INFO org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager @ Installing configuration file template log4j-handle-plugin.properties to
     [java] 2004-10-08 13:04:34,761 WARN org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager @ Error installing configuration files
     [java] java.io.FileNotFoundExcedption: (No such file or directory)
     [java]     at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
     [java]     at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:176)
     [java]     at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:70)
     [java]     at java.io.FileWriter.<init>(FileWriter.java:46)
     [java]     at org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager.installConfigurationFile(ConfigurationManager.java:521)
     [java]     at org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager.installConfigurations(ConfigurationManager.java:471)
     [java]     at org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager.main(ConfigurationManager.java:609)

BUILD FAILED
/usr/local/dspace/source/dspace-1.2-source/build.xml:321: Java returned: 1

Total time: 13 seconds
[dspace at mycomputer dspace-1.2-source]$