[WG: Sakai QA] Trunk nightly is not usable

[Neal Caidin]

Thanks Aaron!  All three scenarios work this morning.

Is there a Jira for the circular dependencies?

-- Neal



> Aaron Zeckoski <mailto:azeckoski at unicon.net>
> April 13, 2014 at 10:25 AM
> It's a service start failure (as any widespread system failure tends
> to be). I updated the ticket with some details from the logs.
>
> Here is the kicker:
> This is tricky because it is a startup order issue caused by these
> services depending on each other. Basically:
>
> MemoryService uses SecurityService, EventTrackingService,
> ServerConfigurationService
> SecurityService uses MemoryService, EventTrackingService,
> ServerConfigurationService (and others)
> EventTrackingService uses SecurityService (and others)
>
> This could be tolerable as long as none of these services are used in
> the init. Unfortunately, SecurityService inits it's caches. Nothing
> uses SecurityService in the init EXCEPT the new MemoryService because
> it needs to insert it into the selected implementation (this is the
> new change).
>
> In essence, these circular dependencies between the various services
> make it impossible for Spring to establish a viable startup order and
> this results in the NPE.
>
> The real fix for this is quite complex because the service dependency
> graph is cyclical and basically needs to be untangled and have the
> cycles removed (of which there are... many). The quick-ish fix for
> this is to change the MemoryService to lazy load the SecurityService
> and EventTrackingService.
>
> -AZ
>
>
>
> Neal Caidin <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>
> April 13, 2014 at 9:44 AM
> Hi,
>
> One cannot create an account [1], one cannot log in as admin [2], one 
> cannot log in with an existing account (did not open a ticket for this 
> one).
>
> [1] https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-26087
>
> [2] https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-26088
>
> Cheers,
> Neal
>

-- 
Neal Caidin
Sakai Community Coordinator
Apereo Foundation
neal.caidin at apereo.org
Skype me! (but let me know in advance for the first interaction) - nealkdin

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