Failure occured while attempting to Importing Config Archive

[rbernardino]

Hi David,

I am using the network deployment WAS. I was able to build images up to *:install. However, I'm having problems when building the images for, say dmgr and appsrv. For example, here's what I got for appsrv,

The translated exception message is: The following error occurred while executing this line: /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profileTemplates/default/actions/scripts/importExternalLogs.xml:30: Failure occured wh ile attempting to Importing Config Archive: /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profileTemplates/default/configArchives/Ap pSrv.car into profile.

I did see that the file is there: was@552f09386c53:/$ ls -ltr /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profileTemplates/default/configArchives/AppSrv.car -rw-r--r-- 1 was was 1026781 Oct 6 06:00 /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profileTemplates/default/configArchives/AppSrv.car

Have you encountered that same problem before?

Thanks!

[rbernardino]

By the way, I am using an Ubuntu 14.04 VM running on VirtualBox as my docker host. It has 1 cpu and 1gb of memory.

Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty

[ernani]

Apparently something is adding up a space in that file. I haven't experienced that error though since I am using an older version of WAS and Docker.

[rbernardino]

Hi Ernani,

I have to double check but it seems the extra space was just a result of me copying and pasting here. By the way, I am using the latest version of Docker CE and a trial version of WAS 8.5.5

Thank you!

[ernani]

Does the error outputs this AppServ.car with a space?

onfigArchives/Ap pSrv.car ?

[rbernardino]

The output actually does not contain a space. That was just a result of me copying and pasting the error messages. However, after some trial and errors, adding these few lines in the websphere-traditional:nd-install image solved the problem and allowed me to build dmgr and appserver images w/o errors.

unlink /bin/sh ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

Here is the Dockerfile.install that I used inside network-deployment/install.

FROM ubuntu:16.04

ARG user=was
ARG group=was
RUN groupadd $group && useradd $user -g $group -m \
    && mkdir /work && chown -R $user:$group /work \
    && unlink /bin/sh \
    && ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
USER $user

ADD was.tar /

ENV PATH /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin:$PATH

This article was indeed a great help. http://www.torkwrench.com/2009/05/04/getting-websphere-portal-to-install-on-ubuntu/

[ernani]

Awesome! Congrats!