Publishing to pivotal tc server has encountered... Unable to start tc server

Question

I have recently installed the new STS 3.8.3 release. And immediately after I started adding dependencies to maven, my tc server stopped working and this error came up

I cant understand the problem, It came after I updated my repository indexes. The following is the error.

Publishing the configuration... Error copying file to D:/sts-bundle/pivotal-tc-server-developer-3.2.2.RELEASE/base-instance/backup\catalina.policy: D:\sts-bundle\pivotal-tc-server-developer-3.2.2.RELEASE\base-instance\conf\catalina.policy (The system cannot find the path specified) D:\sts-bundle\pivotal-tc-server-developer-3.2.2.RELEASE\base-instance\conf\catalina.policy (The system cannot find the path specified) Error copying file to D:/sts-bundle/pivotal-tc-server-developer-3.2.2.RELEASE/base-instance/backup\catalina.properties: D:\sts-bundle\pivotal-tc-server-developer-3.2.2.RELEASE\base-instance\conf\catalina.properties (The system cannot find the path specified) D:\sts-bundle\pivotal-tc-server-developer-3.2.2.RELEASE\base-instance\conf\catalina.properties (The system cannot find the path specified) Error copying file to D:/sts-bundle/pivotal-tc-server-developer-3.2.2.RELEASE/base-instance/backup\context.xml: D:\sts-bundle\pivotal-tc-server-developer-3.2.2.RELEASE\base-instance\conf\context.xml (The system cannot find the path specified) D:\sts-bundle\pivotal-tc-server-developer-3.2.2.RELEASE\base-instance\conf\context.xml (The system cannot find the path specified) Error copying file to D:/sts-bundle/pivotal-tc-server-developer-3.2.2.RELEASE/base-instance/backup\jmxremote.access: D:\sts-bundle\pivotal-tc-server-developer-3.2.2.RELEASE\base-instance\conf\jmxremote.access (The system cannot find the path specified)

Please help me resolve this...

(Note: I am tagging this issue under maven too, even though I am not so sure how that is related. If there is no relation please ignore)

Answer 1

Looks like your base-instance instance of tc server is corrupted. Launching tc server backs up the config files in the backup folder under the instance folder. Looks like config files are missing and there nothing to backup. I'd suggest removing base-instance folder and then starting STS again. STS should create base-instance automatically on the startup if it's missing. Hope this helps

Answer 2

Did you verify whether the files it is complaining about exist? If base-instance/conf files don't exist the default STS instance was not created correctly for some reason. You can always delete that base-instance and recreate it or create your own instance and import it into the servers.

> pivotal-tc-server-developer-3.2.2.RELEASE/tcruntime-instance.bat create base-instance -t base --force -v 8.0.30.C.RELEASE

Answer 3

Make sure you do not close the server or your project will not be able to see the configuration files needed. This happens to me when I click close unrelated projects and the 'Servers' folder closes. To prevent this from happening I add the Servers folder to my 'project references'. Right click project and choose properties at the bottom, then click on project references and select your Servers folder.

Answer 4

I experienced the same problem with Eclipse, but in my case conf folder was gone. I think it could have been caused when I ran another Eclipse for another workspace, and other Eclipse messed up conf folder (no proof though).

The workaround I used was was to:

1. Re-create missing conf folder, in my case:
   C:\Users\<UNAME>\eclipse\sts-bundle\pivotal-tc-server\instances\base-instance\conf

2. copy the files from your Eclipse Servers project into the conf.

3. Run it

Answer 5

Yes , correct , I had faced same issue. Reason is first i had opened STS for one workspace for example Chetan_workspace with STS.

Later i openened the same workspace 'Chetan_workspace' with eclipse. that time eclipse has deleted conf folder.

i.e. conetnt of conf folder in C:\SOFTWARES\spring-tool-suite-3.9.10.RELEASE-e4.13.0-win32-x86_64\sts-bundle\pivotal-tc-server\instances\base-instance\conf

location .. and contents are

catalina.policy, server.xml, logger file etc..

solution : just go to this location and create conf folder manually C:\SOFTWARES\spring-tool-suite-3.9.10.RELEASE-e4.13.0-win32-x86_64\sts-bundle\pivotal-tc-server\instances\base-instance\conf and add its contents mentioed above / or all contents for which it is throwing error it worked