Re: Debug on local test server

I just went through this myself, trying to get WAS started.

Couple of things.

Make absolutely certain you are current on PTFs on both the iSeries
(that's not really relevant for this particular error in your test
environment but it will be if you go to deploy this), and on the PC for
WDSC.  Run the Rational Product Updater and do the updates it suggests,
if any.  That makes a huge difference in the success or failure of your
project.

Also, you will need to review the console logs.  A problem I had was
that I'd deleted some of the projects I'd already created and did not
uninstall them from the Websphere Admin Console. 

If this is not the case for you, then review the logs to see what it
could not find, what it tried to start and failed on, if you have a port
conflict, etc..

You can check the port conflicts by double clicking on the WAS 6.0
server name to view the properties for it.  Look at the port # it is
trying to start on.  Then from a DOS prompt,  type NETSTAT -a and it
will list all the ports that are in use on your system. If you see the
same port # in that list that is on the WAS 6.0 server properties, then
you need to change one of them.

If the problem is that you deleted some projects you'd created earlier
and now it can't find them, then you will need to start the Admin
Console to do so. You may have a problem though in that you may not be
able to start the Admin Console if you can't even get WAS 6.0 running. 

However...something I did that seemed to work for me, was to start the
WAS 6.0 test environment in DEBBUG mode (click on the little green
beetle next to the start button) and monitor the progress.  Every so
often (this isn't science, more like black magic) try right clicking on
the WAS 6.0 server name and see if you can select the option to Start
Admin Console.  If you can, and if it will, you can then go into the
Applications -  Enterprise Applications, and find the projects you had
deleted earlier and stop them and then uninstall them (then save and
restart the WAS test environment server). 

Hope that helps.

Shannon O'Donnell


-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces+shannon.odonnell=customcall.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wdsci-l-bounces+shannon.odonnell=customcall.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Justin Taylor
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:36 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Debug on local test server

I am trying to debug a web app using a server in WDSc.  I can start the
server in regular mode but it will not start in debug.  It gives me:

Severe Error
Error received while starting the server
Reason:
The server named WebSphere Application Server v6.0 did not start
correctly.
Check the Console for error messages. *


The console contains over 5 pages of messages, so I am reluctant to post
the whole thing.  Is there some particular message I should look for?