Successfully installing Windchill9.1 on CentOS

[VinJovanovic]

That helped. Thanks. Also, I tried to install WC as oracle user instead of root. However, a new error comes up now: WC loader failed. So, here we go again...

DEBUG 2012-06-13 11:24:29 - apache appears to be down. Starting it...

DEBUG 2012-06-13 11:24:29 - Starting Apache...

DEBUG 2012-06-13 11:24:29 - Executing command: /opt2/ptc/Windchill_10.0/Apache/bin/apachectl -k start

DEBUG 2012-06-13 11:24:29 - Executing: /opt2/ptc/Windchill_10.0/Apache/bin/apachectl -k start

DEBUG 2012-06-13 11:24:31 - socket connect to localhost:2080 completed with no error

DEBUG 2012-06-13 11:24:31 - Checking if web service is running...

DEBUG 2012-06-13 11:24:31 - checking URL connection to http://localhost.localdomain:2080 ...

DEBUG 2012-06-13 11:24:31 - apache running at http://localhost.localdomain:2080

DEBUG 2012-06-13 11:24:31 - Apache seems to be running.

INFO 2012-06-13 11:24:31 - Loader command: /opt2/ptc/Windchill_10.0/Windchill/bin/windchill --java=/opt2/ptc/Windchill_10.0/Java/bin/java --javaargs=-Dwt.load.installer.serverManagerTimeout=300 wt.load.WindchillLoader -All -Unattended -AbortOnError -Locale=en -User=wcadmin -Password=wcadmin

INFO 2012-06-13 12:02:59 - joining with std out thread

INFO 2012-06-13 12:03:04 - std out join complete.

INFO 2012-06-13 12:03:04 - joining with std error thread

INFO 2012-06-13 12:03:04 - std err join complete.

FATAL 2012-06-13 12:03:05 - Windchill loader exited with error status = 1

DEBUG 2012-06-13 12:03:17 - Installation is Aborting. The installation cannot continue.

DEBUG 2012-06-13 12:03:24 - Installation is Aborting. The installation cannot continue.

FATAL 2012-06-13 12:15:51 - Aborting installation.

FATAL 2012-06-13 12:15:51 - Installation is Aborting. The installation cannot continue.

FATAL 2012-06-13 12:15:51 - Windchill Loader failed.

FATAL 2012-06-13 12:15:51 - aborting: original exit_code = 2

FATAL 2012-06-13 12:15:51 - aborting: normalized exit_code = 2

DEBUG 2012-06-13 12:15:53 - SHUTDOWN REQUESTED

DEBUG 2012-06-13 12:15:53 - (X) commiting registry

DEBUG 2012-06-13 12:15:56 - (X) shutting down service manager

DEBUG 2012-06-13 12:15:57 - (X) cleaning up temporary directories

DEBUG 2012-06-13 12:15:57 - Exiting with exit code: 2

DEBUG 2012-06-13 12:16:05 - java.lang.NullPointerException

DEBUG 2012-06-13 12:16:07 - cleanUp()

DEBUG 2012-06-13 12:16:07 - calling cleanUpUNIX()

[AshLynx]

Why don't you run WindchillLoader manually.

1. Start oracle
2. Start apache
3. Start WindchillDS
4. Open shell
5. #windchill shell
6. #wt.load.WindchillLoader -All -Unattended

You might be able to find the cause.

[VinJovanovic]

I did it but it looks incomprehensible to me (bellow). Anyway, my installation case # is still open, but I am simply not getting any calls back from the assigned tech (it has been a week).

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windchill wt.load.WindchillLoader -All -Unattended

Welcome to Database Setup Utility for Windchill and Windchill Solutions.

You will be presented with a series of prompts.

If you have already installed a base data set as part of a previous

loading sequence you do not need to load it again.

----------------------------------------------------------------

Stop the ServerManager.

NOTE: If the SM is hung on the MethodServer, this may wait for 60 sec.

NOTE: If the SM is not running, you'll get a traceback ending in

java.net.ConnectionException: Connection refused

This can be ignored.

Begin stop sequence...

wt.util.WTRemoteException: Unable to stop server manager; nested exception is:

wt.util.WTRemoteException: Unable to ping server manager; nested exception is:

wt.util.WTRemoteException: Unable to locate server manager; nested exception is:

java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: localhost.localdomain; nested exception is:

java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

============================================

== Assuming server stopped and continuing ==

============================================

Start the server manager ....

2012-06-14 13:46:25,854 INFO [main] wt.manager.ServerLauncher - Starting ServerManager

Make sure it's running ...

ServerManager is alive!!

Windchill service (MethodServer) starting (1) instance(s)

java.lang.Exception: Unable to complete startup of all Windchill Services

at wt.load.Installer.checkServiceStartup(Installer.java:684)

at wt.load.Installer.startServerManager(Installer.java:455)

at wt.load.BasicLoader.doInstall(BasicLoader.java:267)

at wt.load.BasicLoader.<init>(BasicLoader.java:215)

at wt.load.WindchillLoader.load(WindchillLoader.java:332)

at wt.load.WindchillLoader.main(WindchillLoader.java:435)

[dkessler]

A 1,000 thank yous!

I have created an Ubuntu box with VMWare, 15 VM CentOS 5.8 Windchill 10.0 installations with Apache and Oracle XE. With a lot of tweaking I mangaged to get 6 of them to start Windchill at the end of the installation processs. Windchill appears to work fine. BUT everytime I reboot, I can not get Windchill 10.0 to start. ALL we want to do is run Windchill PDMLink, nothing else.

Here's my order I bring each service up from command line prompt:

Start Apache # apachectl start

Start Tomcat # ./wttomcat_start

Start WindchillDS # ./start-ds

Start Windchill # ./windchill start

When I use Tomcat and start Windchill, the Method Server fails: Error attempting to start Tomcat on port 8010, probably cuz Tomcat is already running.

When I leave Tomcat out thinking WindchillDS might start the service, Windchill fails: Can not find Tomcat on port 8010. I added port 8010 to the firewall exceptions.

Am I starting Windchill in the correct order?

[AshLynx]

We don't need starting tomcat on Windchill10.0.

Because, starting tomcat is contained in starting windchill.

Start Apache # apachectl start

Start Tomcat # ./wttomcat_start

Start WindchillDS # ./start-ds

Start Windchill # ./windchill start

[AshLynx]

Test

日本語で投稿は可能か。

WC10.0をCentOSにインストールしたときのメモです。

[ptc-4599055]

Is there any possibility to hide the xterm like running Windchill as a Service on Windows?

[ShawnLothrop]

Yes, you can setup Windchill components to run as services under CentOS via System V init scripts. The scripts are stored in /etc/init.d and auto start on boot can be controlled via the chkconfig command.

1) Apache - You can copy the init.d script used by the stock CentOS apache service, /etc/init.d/httpd, and update the paths to point to your Windchill apache install.

2) Windchill DS - Windchill DS has a create init script under the [Windchill DS]/server/bin/ folder. From inside the Windchill DS bin folder run the following: create-rc-script --outputFile /etc/init.d/opends

3) Tomcat - There are many tomcat init scripts on the web. Search for tomcat init.d script. An example is posted at http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-May/021948.html.

4) Windchill - You'll need to write the windchill startup script. I've posted an example below.

#!/bin/bash

#

# windchill Startup script for the Windchill solution

#

# chkconfig: 345 98 01

# description: this script configures windchill

WINDCHILL_HOME=/opt/ptc/windchill/windchill

WINDCHILL_START="$WINDCHILL_HOME/bin/windchill start"

WINDCHILL_STOP="$WINDCHILL_HOME/bin/windchill stop"

WINDCHILL_STATUS="$WINDCHILL_HOME/bin/windchill status"

# Source function library.

. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Necessary environment variables

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/ptc/windchill/java

# Short-form for messages.

lockfile=${LOCKFILE-/var/lock/subsys/windchill}

RETVAL=0

start() {

echo -n "Starting windchill: "

$WINDCHILL_START > /dev/null 2>&1 && success || failure

RETVAL=$?

echo

[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch ${lockfile}

}

status() {

$WINDCHILL_STATUS

}

stop() {

echo -n "Stopping windchill: "

$WINDCHILL_STOP > /dev/null 2>&1 && success || failure

RETVAL=$?

echo

[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f ${lockfile}

}

# See how we were called.

case "$1" in

start)

start

;;

stop)

stop

;;

status)

status

RETVAL=$?

;;

restart)

stop

sleep 10

start

;;

*)

echo $"Usage: windchill {status|start|stop|restart}"

exit 1

esac

exit $RETVAL

[ptc-4599055]

Thanks for your answer. I would still have a few questions. When I'm trying to execute the setup file file as root, it switches to the console mode. It asks me to choose the Locale. When I choose 2 for English (or any other numbers) the setup aborts.

Is there really the possibility to install Windchill in console mode and when it is, how does it works?

[ShawnLothrop]

Windchill does not have a console install mode. You must use the PSI GUI installer.