Docker image gs-stable-2.24.x does not start due to missing GeoDBDialect

[hbruch]

As the latest geosolutionsit/geoserver:2.24.2 does not yet contain #139, I tried geosolutionsit/geoserver:gs-stable-2.24.x.

The geoserver does no start, due to apparently installed geofence-plugin:

/usr/local/tomcat$ ls -l webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib/ | grep geofence
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat    58624 Nov  9 14:27 geofence-model-internal-3.7.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat    38243 Nov  9 14:27 geofence-persistence-3.7.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat    41088 Nov  9 14:27 geofence-services-api-3.7.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat    51285 Nov  9 14:27 geofence-services-impl-3.7.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 13984739 Apr 24 07:34 geoserver-2.24-SNAPSHOT-geofence-server-plugin.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat   101531 Apr 24 07:34 gs-geofence-2.24-SNAPSHOT.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat   167541 Apr 24 07:34 gs-geofence-server-2.24-SNAPSHOT.jar

The exception

29-Apr-2024 17:51:00.444 SEVERE [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class [org.geoserver.platform.GeoServerContextLoaderListener]
	org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'geofenceEntityManagerFactory' defined in URL [jar:file:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib/geofence-persistence-3.7.1.jar!/applicationContext-geofenceDatasource.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.persistence.PersistenceException: [PersistenceUnit: geofence] Unable to build EntityManagerFactory
		at 
...
	Caused by: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: [PersistenceUnit: geofence] Unable to build EntityManagerFactory
		at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:915)
		at org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.SpringHibernateEjbPersistenceProvider.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(SpringHibernateEjbPersistenceProvider.java:51)
		at org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.createNativeEntityManagerFactory(LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:343)
		at org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:319)
		at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1863)
		at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1800)
		... 54 more
	Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Dialect class not found: org.hibernatespatial.geodb.GeoDBDialect
		at org.hibernate.dialect.resolver.DialectFactory.constructDialect(DialectFactory.java:159)
		at org.hibernate.dialect.resolver.DialectFactory.buildDialect(DialectFactory.java:99)
		at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:117)
		at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettingsInternal(Configuration.java:2863)
		at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:2859)
		at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1870)
		at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:906)
		... 59 more
	Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernatespatial.geodb.GeoDBDialect
		at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1412)
		at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1220)
		at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
		at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:315)
		at org.hibernate.util.ReflectHelper.classForName(ReflectHelper.java:192)
		at org.hibernate.dialect.resolver.DialectFactory.constructDialect(DialectFactory.java:156)
		... 65 more
29-Apr-2024 17:51:00.459 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log Closing Spring root WebApplicationContext

suggests that org.hibernatespatial.geodb.GeoDBDialect is missing.

The installed hibernate jars are:

ls -l webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib/ | grep hibernate
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat    71283 May  4  2020 hibernate-commons-annotations-3.2.0.Final.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat  3119700 May  4  2020 hibernate-core-3.6.9.Final.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat    11280 May  4  2020 hibernate-ehcache-3.6.9.Final.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat   426314 May  4  2020 hibernate-entitymanager-3.6.9.Final.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat   102661 May  4  2020 hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.1.Final.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat    92968 Feb  8  2021 hibernate-spatial-1.1.3.2.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      15969 Feb  8  2021 hibernate-spatial-postgis-1.1.3.2.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat    15520 May  4  2020 search-hibernate-1.1.0.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat     3261 May  4  2020 search-jpa-hibernate-1.1.0.jar

As this repo has the geofence plugins commented out, I wonder what the source of the gs-stable-2.24.x image is(?)

[randomorder]

Hi @hbruch

I'll take a look. If it is just a matter of missing unzip package then a rebuild of the images should fix it

[hbruch]

Thanks! I'm not sure, if the missing unzip is the cause. In the nightly stable build, it's already included, but to me it seems that the geofence-plugin misses a dependency(?). I see that the nightly images are built via hooks/build, but not with which plugins it is built, as this is a env var externally defined. Is the geofence-server plugin specified as additional plugin?

[david7378]

I managed to make it work. Here's what I did:

1. Cloned docker-geoserver repository.
2. Built a test image with the following parameters.

docker build -t geoserver:test-2.24.x \
--build-arg  GEOSERVER_WEBAPP_SRC=https://build.geoserver.org/geoserver/2.24.x/geoserver-2.24.x-latest-war.zip \
--build-arg PLUG_IN_URLS="https://build.geoserver.org/geoserver/2.24.x/ext-latest/geoserver-2.24-SNAPSHOT-geofence-server-plugin.zip" .

3. Ran the test image with the following parameters.
   Note: I added this parameter -Dgwc.context.suffix=gwc because when I accessed /geoserver, it redirected to geowebcache.

docker run -e EXTRA_GEOSERVER_OPTS='-Dgwc.context.suffix=gwc' --name gs -p 8080:8080 geoserver:test-2.24.x

4. Tested it on the browser.

[randomorder]

Hi @hbruch

I see that the nightly images are built via hooks/build, but not with which plugins it is built, as this is a env var externally defined. Is the geofence-server plugin specified as additional plugin?

The only plugins included by default are: monitor, controlflow and libjpegturbo: https://github.com/geosolutions-it/docker-geoserver/blob/master/hooks/build#L3

We were only able to reproduce your error if installing both the geofence AND the geofence-server plugin. That should be avoided you either install one or the other. Typically the geofence-server plugin only is installed in order to integrate geofence into geoserver. The other plugin is used only if you have a running external standalone geofence and you want geoserver to connect to it.
More info here: https://docs.geoserver.org/main/en/user/extensions/geofence-server/installing.html

Can you confirm you were trying to add both plugins at the same time?

The need to add the system variable "'-Dgwc.context.suffix=gwc" to the JAVA_OPTS is also covered by the documentation. Without that JAVA_OPT set you will have issues accessing the geoserver UI @david7378

[randomorder]

Closing the issue due to lack of feedback. Do let us know if you still have issues @hbruch