[OSGeoLive] Start of geoserver in OSGeoLive 12

[Christoph Steinforth]

Ben,

this solves the problem. The geoserver starts after adding the user "user"
to the group "users".

Thanks for your very quick help,

Christoph

Am Do., 20. Sep. 2018 um 00:50 Uhr schrieb Ben Caradoc-Davies <
ben at transient.nz>:

> 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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> --
> Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben at transient.nz>
> Director
> Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
> New Zealand
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