# Help! Can't start server

**URL:** <https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677>\
**Category:** Classic Servoy\
**Created:** [October 3, 2008, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677 "2008-10-03T10:04:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![irenem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@irenem](https://forum.servoy.com/u/irenem)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/1 "2008-10-03T10:04:17Z")

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Hello,

I can’t start Servoy 4.0.1… dbserv10 is available in my activity list but the application server doesn’t run.  
This is what the server.log says:

> 0 [main] INFO com.servoy.j2db.util.Debug - Loading servoy.properties from /Applications/Servoy4.0/application\_server/servoy.properties  
> 270 [main] INFO com.servoy.j2db.util.Debug - Loading - Done  
> Exception in thread “main” org.apache.commons.dbcp.DbcpException: java.sql.SQLException: JZ006: Caught IOException: java.net.ConnectException: Operation timed out  
> at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DriverConnectionFactory.createConnection(DriverConnectionFactory.java:85)  
> at com.servoy.j2db.persistence.datasource.n.createConnection(Unknown Source)  
> at com.servoy.j2db.persistence.datasource.r.makeObject(Unknown Source)  
> at org.apache.commons.pool.impl.GenericObjectPool.borrowObject(GenericObjectPool.java:816)  
> at org.apache.commons.dbcp.PoolingDataSource.getConnection(PoolingDataSource.java:110)  
> at com.servoy.j2db.persistence.datasource.i.getConnection(Unknown Source)  
> at com.servoy.j2db.persistence.Server.getConnection(Unknown Source)  
> at com.servoy.j2db.persistence.Server.checkIfTableExistsInDatabase(Unknown Source)  
> at com.servoy.j2db.persistence.Repository.for(Unknown Source)  
> at com.servoy.j2db.persistence.Repository.(Unknown Source)  
> at com.servoy.j2db.persistence.Repository.(Unknown Source)  
> at com.servoy.j2db.persistence.Server.getRepository(Unknown Source)  
> at com.servoy.j2db.server.ApplicationServer.main(Unknown Source)  
> Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: JZ006: Caught IOException: java.net.ConnectException: Operation timed out  
> at com.sybase.jdbc3.jdbc.ErrorMessage.raiseError(Unknown Source)  
> at com.sybase.jdbc3.jdbc.ErrorMessage.raiseErrorCheckDead(Unknown Source)  
> at com.sybase.jdbc3.tds.Tds.a(Unknown Source)  
> at com.sybase.jdbc3.tds.Tds.a(Unknown Source)  
> at com.sybase.jdbc3.tds.Tds.login(Unknown Source)  
> at com.sybase.jdbc3.jdbc.SybConnection.a(Unknown Source)  
> at com.sybase.jdbc3.jdbc.SybConnection.a(Unknown Source)  
> at com.sybase.jdbc3.jdbc.SybConnection.(Unknown Source)  
> at com.sybase.jdbc3.jdbc.SybConnection.(Unknown Source)  
> at com.sybase.jdbc3.jdbc.SybDriver.connect(Unknown Source)  
> at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DriverConnectionFactory.createConnection(DriverConnectionFactory.java:83)  
> … 12 more

Can somebody help me out?

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**Author:** ![ROCLASI](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/roclasi/32/4371_2.png) [@ROCLASI](https://forum.servoy.com/u/ROCLASI)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/2 "2008-10-03T10:26:08Z")

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Hi Irene,

Anything in the Sybase log ?  
Also you say the application server doesn’t run. You mean it crashes ?  
Normally a failed db connection will not stop the application server, even if it is the repository server connection.

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**Author:** ![irenem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@irenem](https://forum.servoy.com/u/irenem)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/3 "2008-10-03T10:36:28Z")

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Hello Robert,

The sybase.log seems to be normal. I can normally connect with Sybase central.

> I. 10/03 12:30:17. Running Darwin 9.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep 3 11:29:43 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE\_I386 on X86 (X86\_64)  
> I. 10/03 12:30:17. Server built for X86 processor architecture  
> I. 10/03 12:30:19. Database server started at Fri Oct 03 2008 12:30  
> I. 10/03 12:30:19. Trying to start SharedMemory link …  
> I. 10/03 12:30:19. SharedMemory link started successfully  
> I. 10/03 12:30:19. Trying to start TCPIP link …  
> I. 10/03 12:30:19. TCPIP link started successfully  
> I. 10/03 12:30:19. Now accepting requests  
> I. 10/03 12:30:24. Cache size adjusted to 105840K  
> I. 10/03 12:30:29. Cache size adjusted to 104352K  
> I. 10/03 12:30:34. Cache size adjusted to 103984K

If I try to connect with the app-server, you know… localhost:8080 it fails to ‘open the page’.  
When I start Servoy I can see the startsplash then it freezes.

Just to be sure I reinstalled Servoy but it didn’t help.

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**Author:** ![ROCLASI](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/roclasi/32/4371_2.png) [@ROCLASI](https://forum.servoy.com/u/ROCLASI)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/4 "2008-10-03T11:18:51Z")

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Hi Irene,

Are you sure you are using a 32-bits java ? ? Eclipse for instance doesn’t work in 32bit.  
See the java settings in /Applications/Utilities/Java/Java Preferences.app .

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**Author:** ![irenem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@irenem](https://forum.servoy.com/u/irenem)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 11:27am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/5 "2008-10-03T11:27:23Z")

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Hi Robert,

> Eclipse for instance doesn’t work in 32bit.

I dragged all 64-bit java on top of the list but… to bad.

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**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/6 "2008-10-03T11:36:36Z")

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ACK! ![:oops:]( "Embarassed") my bad.  
I meant to say Eclipse doesn’t work in 64-bit.  
So drag the 64-bit java down the list.

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**Author:** ![irenem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@irenem](https://forum.servoy.com/u/irenem)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/7 "2008-10-03T11:54:30Z")

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64-bit down the list, still nothing! ![:evil:]( "Evil or Very Mad")

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**Author:** ![ROCLASI](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/roclasi/32/4371_2.png) [@ROCLASI](https://forum.servoy.com/u/ROCLASI)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 12:04pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/8 "2008-10-03T12:04:04Z")

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Hi Irene,

So even Developer will not launch ?  
Did it work before ? If so what has changed ? Enabled the firewall ?  
Did you fixed the disk permissions lately (Disk Utility) ?

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**Author:** ![irenem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@irenem](https://forum.servoy.com/u/irenem)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/9 "2008-10-03T12:18:43Z")

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A few days ago I updated my Java… thanks to Apple. After that I wanted to change the brand settings, but it didn’t work. At that time I could reach the server without problems.  
This morning I reseted the pram, but I can’t imagine that that causes the problem.

Now that I have reinstalled Servoy, the developer launches. But I still cant reach the server by the browser.

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**Author:** ![ROCLASI](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/roclasi/32/4371_2.png) [@ROCLASI](https://forum.servoy.com/u/ROCLASI)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/10 "2008-10-03T12:33:32Z")

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Hi Irene,

So when Developer is running you can’t reach the servoy-admin pages via localhost ?  
See what the settings are in Preferences \> Servoy \> Services.

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**Author:** ![irenem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@irenem](https://forum.servoy.com/u/irenem)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/11 "2008-10-03T12:41:41Z")

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They appear to be normal, if I do the test it says it’s running. See pict.

When developer is running I can reach the server. When it is not running I can’t.  
The application server is supposed to start as a service when I start the machine, and it always worked… till this morning.

 ![Picture 1.png](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/uploads/servoy/original/2X/a/a45099dbe65784f7840d099345985627d0dea6ea.png)

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**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/12 "2008-10-03T13:04:04Z")

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Hi Irene,

I can’t reproduce your problem.  
In terminal I launch servoy\_server.sh by going to the directory first (cd /path/to/servoyserver) and then launching the servoy\_server.sh (./servoy\_server.sh).  
How do you start Servoy server exactly ?

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**Author:** ![irenem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@irenem](https://forum.servoy.com/u/irenem)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/13 "2008-10-03T13:19:24Z")

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In /library/startupitems/servoy I have an executable to start the servoy-server.sh. So when I start the computer it runs the server in the background. I work with this method for years and it did well… till this morning.

I attach the file and sevoy-server.sh which is a little modified.

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**Author:** ![irenem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@irenem](https://forum.servoy.com/u/irenem)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/14 "2008-10-03T13:24:05Z")

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somehow my attachment didn’t come throug. This is the text of the excutable:

> #!/bin/sh
> 
> ## 
> 
> # Servoy Application Server
> 
> ## 
> 
> . /etc/rc.common  
> StartService () {  
> ConsoleMessage “Starting Servoy Application Server…”  
> cd /Applications/Servoy4.0/  
> . /Applications/Servoy4.0/application\_server/servoy\_server.sh&  
> }  
> StopService()  
> {  
> ConsoleMessage “In the future Stop Servoy Application Server here”  
> }  
> RestartService ()  
> {  
> ConsoleMessage “Restarting Servoy Application Server…”  
> StopService  
> StartService  
> }  
> RunService “$1”

and this of sevoy-server.sh

> #!/bin/sh
> 
> cd /Applications/Servoy4.0/application\_server/  
> export DYLD\_LIBRARY\_PATH=/Applications/Servoy4.0/application\_server/sybase\_db  
> /Applications/Servoy4.0/application\_server/sybase\_db/dbsrv10 @/Applications/Servoy4.0/application\_server/sybase\_db/sybase.config &
> 
> while true  
> do  
> java -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx256m -Xms64m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -classpath .:lib/ohj-jewt.jar:lib/MRJAdapter.jar:lib/compat141.jar:lib/commons-codec.jar:lib/commons-httpclient.jar:lib/activation.jar:lib/antlr.jar:lib/commons-collections.jar:lib/commons-dbcp.jar:lib/commons-fileupload-1.0.jar:lib/commons-logging.jar:lib/commons-pool.jar:lib/dom4j.jar:lib/help.jar:lib/jabsorb.jar:lib/hibernate3.jar:lib/j2db.jar:lib/j2dbdev.jar:lib/jdbc2\_0-stdext.jar:lib/jmx.jar:lib/jndi.jar:lib/js.jar:lib/jta.jar:lib/BrowserLauncher2.jar:lib/jug.jar:lib/log4j.jar:lib/mail.jar:lib/ohj-jewt.jar:lib/oracle\_ice.jar:lib/server-bootstrap.jar:lib/servlet-api.jar:lib/wicket-extentions.jar:lib/wicket.jar:lib/wicket-calendar.jar:lib/slf4j-api.jar:lib/slf4j-log4j.jar:lib/joda-time.jar:lib/rmitnl.jar:lib/networktnl.jar com.servoy.j2db.server.ApplicationServer “$@” 1\>\> server.log 2\>\> server.log  
> EXITCODE=$?  
> if [“$EXITCODE” != 99]; then exit $EXITCODE; fi  
> done

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**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/15 "2008-10-03T13:25:14Z")

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> irenem:  
> I attach the file and sevoy-server.sh which is a little modified.

Nothing attached to your post.

But to rule anything out. If you launch it the way I described does that work for you?

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**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/16 "2008-10-03T13:30:57Z")

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I guess I was too quick.

Anyway. Is this path still correct ?

```auto
/Applications/Servoy4.0/application_server/

```

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**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/17 "2008-10-03T13:41:47Z")

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Yes Robert, the path is correct and it always worked, that makes me so angry!

If I use tour method I get this:

> GeniusBook:application\_server irene$ servoy\_server.sh  
> ./servoy\_server.sh: line 9: server.log: Permission denied  
> GeniusBook:application\_server irene$ SQL Anywhere Network Server Version 10.0.1.3419
> 
> Copyright (c) 2001-2007, iAnywhere Solutions, Inc. Portions copyright (c) 1988-2007, Sybase, Inc.  
> All rights reserved. All unpublished rights reserved.
> 
> Developer edition, not licensed for deployment.  
> Please confirm your acceptance of these license terms:  
> I accept and agree to abide by the terms and conditions of the  
> “IANYWHERE NO-CHARGE DEVELOPER EDITION LICENSE AGREEMENT”.  
> Enter ‘Y’ for Yes and ‘N’ for No:  
> Y  
> -bash: Y: command not found  
> GeniusBook:application\_server irene$

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**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/18 "2008-10-03T14:00:07Z")

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Almost looks like Sybase is launching in some unregistred (license-wise) state, never seen that message before…  
In any case it seems you have a permission issue. Line 9 is in fact your Servoy server launch command in servoy\_server.sh

I suggest you run Disk Utility and fix your disk permissions. Something I always do after any update of the system.

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**Author:** ![irenem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@irenem](https://forum.servoy.com/u/irenem)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/19 "2008-10-03T14:35:38Z")

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Done. It doesn’t help. The problem is still there.

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**Author:** ![irenem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@irenem](https://forum.servoy.com/u/irenem)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/help-cant-start-server/9677/20 "2008-10-06T07:39:29Z")

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Hello Robert,  
We are back in business! Thanks to your remark about privileges, I looked closer to the permissions,the group of servoy\_server.sh (as of many other items) was ‘unknown’. Somehow DiskUtility couldn’t correct the problem. According to some Mac forums this problem seems to be a kind of bug on Leopard, normally it’s not a big issue because in many cases the user can work normally, but Servoy seems to be sensitive to this. So I spent my sunday rebuilding my computer and now everything is back to normal and the app.server is up again. It doesn’t matter, it was miserable weather anyway ![:wink:]( "Wink")

Thanks again for your time and patience  
Irene

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