[OSGeoLive] Start of geoserver in OSGeoLive 12

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

I filed a ticket for this defect (not yet emailed to this list for some 
reason):
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/ticket/2126

On 20/09/2018 10:50, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> Christoph,
> 
> I can reproduce this failure. For some reason, the user "user" is not a 
> member of the "users" group on the vmdk. This prevents GeoServer from 
> writing to its data directory and causes GeoServer to fail to start.
> 
> You can fix your vmdk with the following one-time procedure:
> 
> (1) Start a terminal.
> 
> (2) Run "sudo adduser user users".
> 
> (3) To apply this change to your desktop session, you need to either 
> restart the virtual machine or log out and log back in (username "user", 
> password "user").
> 
> GeoServer should now start normally.
> 
> The iso image is not affected by this problem.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ben.
> 
> On 20/09/2018 09:55, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
>> Christoph,
>>
>> how did you start GeoServer?
>>
>> What happens if you open a terminal and run "geoserver_start.sh"?
>>
>> Which vmdk file did you download and what is its md5sum?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Ben.
>>
>> On 20/09/2018 09:03, Christoph Steinforth wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> please apologize if this has been asked before, but I was not able to 
>>> find
>>> a concise answer.
>>>
>>> The geoserver within the OSGeo 12  VirtualBox vmdk-file won't start. Is
>>> there anything wrong with the vmdk?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>>
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>>
> 

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