[Building Sakai] FW: Session replication fails on ReplicationValve invocation

Gerwood Stewart gstewar8 at une.edu.au
Wed Jun 17 17:36:06 PDT 2009


This is possibly more of a Tomcat issue but has anyone faced this issue and have they found any work arounds?

Thanks
Gerwood

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From: David Nillesen <dnillese at une.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:29:55 +1000
To: Gerwood Stewart <gstewar8 at une.edu.au>
Subject: FW: Session replication fails on ReplicationValve invocation




David Nillesen
UNIX Systems Administrator
University of New England
+61 2 6773 2112


From: David Nillesen
Sent: Thursday, 18 June 2009 10:24 AM
To: 'users at tomcat.apache.org'
Subject: Session replication fails on ReplicationValve invocation

Hi,
               I'm currently trying to establish a cluster of tomcat 5.5.27 servers to deploy sakai in, so I'm stuck on version 5.5. It is not an option to upgrade to tomcat 6 which from all accounts has much better session replication.

I have cluster membership up and working via multicast and the two nodes add each other as replication targets. When I try to establish a connection to the server  from my web browser to the default port of 8080 I get this neat error in my catalina.out:

ERROR: An exception or error occurred in the container during the request processing (2009-06-17 16:43:49,545 http-172.31.3.37-8080-Processor5_org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter)
java.lang.NullPointerException
               at org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationValve.invoke(ReplicationValve.java:348)

I'll put full errors and configs at the bottom of the email. The errors occurs regardless of whether I access an empty/nonexistent context or the servlet-examples which are currently installed.

               The servers are multi homed with 3 interfaces. Eth0 is the primary public interface, eth1 is my iSCSI network and eth2 is the backend cluster network. All neatly VLANd from each other in seperate subnets. Multicast membership works, I can see the packets arriving via tcpdump and the membership propagation is occurring.
I have tried binding the receivers to both public and private interfaces but have had no luck. The receivers are up and appear to be functional. I can telnet to  them and when I enter gibberish into the console it tell me I am sending malformed headers.
By using tcpdump and netstat I can see that neither tomcat instance is originating a sender session to connect to the other servers receiver.

I have tried fastsyncqueue and pooled style senders from the documentation. Currently configured for pooled as it looked the simpler config to diagnose. jvmRoute is configured via -D options passed to java as a lot of our configs are done dynamically so as to have a single server.xml across the cluster environments. We have a shared disk backend system to enable this.

Any suggestions for diagnosis, help, fixes or otherwise would be very much appreciated.

Regards,
Dave

Log file and startup:
INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: /apps/java/jdk1.5.0_19/jre/lib/amd64/server:/apps/java/jdk1.5.0_19/jre/lib/amd64:/apps/java/jdk1.5
.0_19/jre/../lib/amd64 (2009-06-17 16:40:36,874 main_org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener)
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-172.31.3.37-8080 (2009-06-17 16:40:37,019 main_org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol)
INFO: Initialization processed in 1400 ms (2009-06-17 16:40:37,021 main_org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina)
INFO: Set JAAS app name ENGINE (2009-06-17 16:40:37,114 main_org.apache.catalina.realm.JAASRealm)
INFO: Starting service SERVICE (2009-06-17 16:40:37,126 main_org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService)
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.27 (2009-06-17 16:40:37,133 main_org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine)
INFO: Cluster is about to start (2009-06-17 16:40:37,133 main_org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster)
INFO: Start ClusterSender at cluster ENGINE:type=Cluster with name ENGINE:type=ClusterSender (2009-06-17 16:40:37,430 main_org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationTransmitter)
INFO: Setting cluster mcast soTimeout to 1000 (2009-06-17 16:40:37,440 main_org.apache.catalina.cluster.mcast.McastService)
INFO: Sleeping for 4000 milliseconds to establish cluster membership (2009-06-17 16:40:37,460 main_org.apache.catalina.cluster.mcast.McastService)
INFO: membership mbean registered (ENGINE:type=ClusterMembership) (2009-06-17 16:40:41,478 main_org.apache.catalina.cluster.mcast.McastService)
INFO: XML validation disabled (2009-06-17 16:40:41,504 main_org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost)
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized() (2009-06-17 16:40:43,318 main_org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[ENGINE].[localhost].[/servlets-examples])
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized() (2009-06-17 16:40:43,318 main_org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[ENGINE].[localhost].[/servlets-examples])
INFO: JvmRouteBinderValve started (2009-06-17 16:40:43,391 main_org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.JvmRouteBinderValve)
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-172.31.3.37-8080 (2009-06-17 16:40:43,467 main_org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol)
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /172.31.3.37:8009 (2009-06-17 16:40:43,640 main_org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket)
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/99  config=null (2009-06-17 16:40:43,648 main_org.apache.jk.server.JkMain)
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource (2009-06-17 16:40:44,411 main_org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader)
INFO: Server startup in 7485 ms (2009-06-17 16:40:44,506 main_org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina)
INFO: Replication member added:org.apache.catalina.cluster.mcast.McastMember[tcp://172.31.3.34:9015,SAKAINEW,172.31.3.34,9015, alive=11] (2009-06-17 16:40:50,160 Cluster-MembershipReceiver_org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster
)
ERROR: An exception or error occurred in the container during the request processing (2009-06-17 16:43:44,786 http-172.31.3.37-8080-Processor4_org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter)
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationValve.invoke(ReplicationValve.java:348)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:875)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
ERROR: An exception or error occurred in the container during the request processing (2009-06-17 16:43:49,545 http-172.31.3.37-8080-Processor5_org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter)
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationValve.invoke(ReplicationValve.java:348)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:875)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

server.xml

<Server port="7992" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">

               <!-- TOMCAT 5 and 5.5-->
               <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" SSLEngine="off" />
               <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener" />
               <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />
               <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreConfigLifecycleListener"/>

               <!-- JNDI -->
               <GlobalNamingResources>
               </GlobalNamingResources>

               <Service name="SERVICE">

                               <!-- HTTP connector -->
                               <Connector address="${ClusterIP}" port="8080" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
                                               maxThreads="50" minSpareThreads="5" maxSpareThreads="10"
                                               enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
                                               connectionTimeout="0" disableUploadTimeout="true" />

                               <!-- AJP connector -->
                               <Connector address="${ClusterIP}" port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3"
                                               connectionTimeout="600000"
                                               enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" />

                                               <!-The Engine -->
                               <Engine name="ENGINE"
                                               defaultHost="localhost">
                                               <Host name="localhost"
                                                               appBase="webapps"
                                                               unpackWARs="true"
                                                               autoDeploy="false"
                                                               xmlValidation="false"
                                                               xmlNamespaceAware="false">
                                                               <Alias>sakai-new.une.edu.au</Alias>
                                                               <Alias>espresso.une.edu.au</Alias>
                                                               <Alias>latte.une.edu.au</Alias>
                                               </Host>
                                               <Cluster className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster"
                                                               manager.expireSessionsOnShutdown="false"
                                                               doClusterLog="true"
                                                               clusterLogName="clusterlog">
                                                               <Membership
                                                                               className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.mcast.McastService"
                                                                               mcastAddr="228.0.0.4"
                                                                               mcastClusterDomain="SAKAINEW"
                                                                               mcastPort="45564"
                                                                               mcastFrequency="1000"
                                                                               mcastDropTime="30000"
                                                                               recoveryCounter="10"
                                                                               recoveryEnabled="true"
                                                                               recoverySleepTime="5000" />
                                                               <Receiver
                                                                               className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationListener"
                                                                               tcpListenAddress="${ClusterIP}"
                                                                               tcpListenPort="9015"
                                                                               tcpSelectorTimeout="100"
                                                                               tcpThreadCount="5"/>

                                                               <Sender
                                                                               className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationTransmitter"
                                                                               replicationMode="pooled"
                                                                               autoConnect="true"
                                                                               maxPoolSocketLimit="10"
                                                                               keepAliveTimeout="60000"
                                                                               keepAliveMaxRequestCount="-1"
                                                                               waitForAck="true" />
                                                               <ClusterListener className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ClusterSessionListener" />
                                                               <ClusterListener className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.JvmRouteSessionIDBinderListener" />
                                                               <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationValve"
                                                                               filter=".*\.gif;.*\.js;.*\.css;.*\.png;.*\.jpeg;.*\.jpg;.*\.htm;.*\.html;.*\.txt;"
                                                                               primaryIndicator="true" />
                                                               <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.JvmRouteBinderValve"
                                                             enabled="true"  />
                                               </Cluster>
                               </Engine>
               </Service>
</Server>


David Nillesen
UNIX Systems Administrator
University of New England
+61 2 6773 2112



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