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<div class="header1">Table of Contents</div>
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  <div class="toc1"><a href="#BuildIssues">Build Issues</a></div>
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    <div class="toc2"><a href="#HttpServletExceptions">Ant BUILD FAILED : Multiple HttpServlet Exceptions</a></div> 
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  <div class="toc1"><a href="#InstallationIssues">Installation Issues</a></div>
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  <div class="toc1"><a href="#StartupIssues">Startup Issues</a></div>
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    <div class="toc2"><a href="#Jdk14Logger">Metacat doesn't start and Jdk14Logger exception</a></div> 
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  <div class="toc1"><a href="#ConfigurationIssues">Configuration Issues</a></div>
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   <div class="toc2"><a href="#DbUpdateIssue">Database Update Fails (not a connectivity issue)</a></div>
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  <div class="toc1"><a href="#GeneralApplicationIssues">General Application Issues</a></div>
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    <div class="toc2"><a href="#MapDisplayIssue">Maps will not display</a></div>
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  <div class="toc1"><a href="#UnitTestingIssues">Unit Testing Issues</a></div>
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    <div class="toc2"><a href="#503ServiceTemporarilyUnavailable">Mutliple Tests Fail : 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable</a></div>
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<a name="BuildIssues"></a><div class="header1">Build Issues</div>
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  <a name="HttpServletExceptions"></a><div class="header2">Ant BUILD FAILED : Multiple HttpSevlet Exceptions</div>
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    <p>During an Ant build of Metacat, you will see many HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse and
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    other errors.  The compiler will complain that it cannot find a symbol, for example:</p>
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      [javac] /home/daigle/workspace/metacat/build/src/edu/ucsb/nceas/metacat/MetaCatServlet.java:506: cannot find symbol<br>
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      [javac] symbol  : class HttpServletResponse<br>
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      [javac] location: class edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.MetaCatServlet<br>
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      [javac] &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {<br>
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      [javac] &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;^<br>
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    <p>This is usually caused by the build not being able to find native Tomcat libraries. edit your
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    build.properties file in  
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<a name="InstallationIssues"></a><div class="header1">Installation Issues</div>
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<a name="StartupIssues"></a><div class="header1">Startup Issues</div> 
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	<a name="Jdk14Logger"></a><div class="header2">Metacat doesn't start and Jdk14Logger exception</div>
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	<p>The symptoms are that the metacat service will not show up at all, even though Tomcat 
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      is serving, and the following error shows up in the tomcat log (catalina.log):</p>
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      <div class="code">org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: User-specified log
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      class 'org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Jdk14Logger' cannot be found or is
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      not useable </div>
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      <p>This message typically occurs in the tomcat log (catalina.log) 
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      when Tomcat has been installed on an Ubuntu/Debian system using apt-get install.  
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        <div class="code">/etc/init.d/tomcat6 start</div>  
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      <p>The problem is that the standard startup scripts reference the 
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      common java service, jsvc.  Metacat will not run under jsvc.  The solutions are:
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      <li>Download the <a href="http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/download.html">Metacat binary install package</a>
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       and replace your /etc/init.d/tomcat6 startup script with the one provided in the
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      <li>Run Tomcat from the Tomcat binary directory: <tomcat_home>/bin/startup.sh and 
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      <tomcat_home>/bin/shutdown.sh</li>
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<a name="ConfigurationIssues"></a><div class="header1">Configuration Issues</div>
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  <a name="DbUpdateIssue"></a><div class="header2">Database Update Fails (not a connectivity issue)</div>
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    <p>There are a number of reasons why the database update utility might fail during 
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    configuration.  You will need to determine if the error returned indicates a connectivity issue
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    or some issue with the database schema/data.  If it is the latter, the first step in 
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    troubleshooting the issue is to run the db scripts manually and analyze the output.</p> 
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    <p>The configuration utility will report which scripts it tried to run.  To 
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    <a href="../user/run-db-scripts.html">how to run database scripts</a></p>
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    <p>If the answer is not obvious, further troubleshooting may require a database 
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  <a name="MapDisplayIssue"></a><div class="header2">Maps will not display</div>
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    <p>There are two known reasons why maps might not display in a web browser.</p> 
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    <li>Sarfari Browser - the safari browser is not supported by the map libraries.  You will
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        need to switch to a different browser.</li>
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    <li>Firefox Browser with the Firebug plugin - Firebug is a plugin that allows a developer
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        to easily view and troubleshoot web page layouts.  Unfortunately, this plugin can
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        keep the maps from displaying.  There is no plan by the third party map display
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        developers to address this issue.  You will need to disable Firebug in your 
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  <a name="503ServiceTemporarilyUnavailable"></a><div class="header2">Mutliple Tests Fail : 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable</div>
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    <p>When running "ant test", multiple tests fail.  The output files have the error: </p>
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    <p>This typically means your Metacat server is not running.</p>
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