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Frequent problems with vmware server gui

Asked by: seth2740

I get http 1209 and 0 errors frequently and randomly when select different options in the gui.  Sometimes it will behave the entire session, other times it will halt with this error and I have to login  5 times in 3 minutes.  It will also happen randomly when creating a vm and have to start over again.  2.0.2 was just released yesterday but hasn't been posted yet for download; not sure if that will fix the issue.  I'm one step away from wiping it and installing the free ESXi since that has worked out good so far in my test environment.

I'm also seeing messages like this appear in the log (/var/log/vmware/webAccess/proxy.log):

[2009-10-27 02:02:34,451,http-8308-2<=>,JSONProcessor] JSONException while deserializing JSON request:
com.vmware.vim.adapter.broker.util.json.JSONException: Empty json string to parse
        at com.vmware.vim.adapter.broker.util.json.JSONParser.evaluate(Unknown Source)
        at com.vmware.vim.adapter.broker.util.json.JSONParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at com.vmware.vim.adapter.broker.data.JSONProcessor.deSerialize(Unknown Source)
        at com.vmware.vim.adapter.broker.ServerBrokerImpl.process(Unknown Source)
        at com.vmware.webaccess.action.ServerBrokerActionServlet.service(Unknown Source)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

That just happened after getting HTTP 0 error.

I log in again, I click a vm on the left, and now it says ServiceNotAvailableException: Web service not available.

This just appeared in the log:

[2009-10-27 02:08:55,987,waitForUpdates<=>,UpdatesErrorHandler] Updates thread error notification. PrevError=null, NewError=UnknownRemoteException, NewErrorMessage=javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException: Number of parameters passed in (2) doesn't match the number of IN/INOUT parameters (3) from the addParameter() calls
[2009-10-27 02:08:57,474,http-8308-2<=>,RequestProcessor] Error processing action request /view/fetch : [ServiceNotAvailableException] javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException: Number of parameters passed in (2) doesn't match the number of IN/INOUT parameters (3) from the addParameter() calls

Running 2.0.1 on CentOS 5.4 x64.

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Answers

 

by: ryder0707Posted on 2009-10-27 at 06:53:15ID: 25672391

I suggest to uninstall & reinstall vmware server, you could simply reregister all the VMs after reinstalled

 

by: seth2740Posted on 2009-10-27 at 10:16:28ID: 25674942

I actually have the same problem on a RH 5.3 server where the gui is doing the same thing.

Seems one of the vm that was running on this box was killed about 8am.  I just restarted it and there was no sign of clean shutdown and nothing in vmware log.  That hasn't happened before.

I will try reinstalling vmware on this CentOS box and see how that works.

 

by: seth2740Posted on 2009-10-27 at 10:22:11ID: 25675003

I just selected another vm to shut it down so I can reinstall vmware.  Got another http1209 error and now the gui doesn't work.

[2009-10-27 13:20:13,679,waitForUpdates<=>,UpdatesErrorHandler] Updates thread error notification. PrevError=null, NewError=UnknownRemoteException, NewErrorMessage=(0)null
[2009-10-27 13:20:13,681,view update thread<=>,ConfigTargetPropertyHandler] queryTargetOption failed: (0)null
[2009-10-27 13:20:13,686,view update thread<=>,ConfigOptionPropertyHandler] queryConfigOption failed: (0)null
[2009-10-27 13:20:13,707,pool-1-thread-9<=>,ConfigTargetPropertyHandler] queryTargetOption failed: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
[2009-10-27 13:20:13,707,pool-1-thread-8<=>,ConfigOptionPropertyHandler] queryConfigOption failed: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

 

by: seth2740Posted on 2009-10-27 at 10:44:16ID: 25675263

Since the vmware console to the vm wasn't working, I was able to connect remotely to the vm (rdp/ssh) and shutdown clean.  I removed vmware and move all directories/files that were lingering under /var /usr /etc to /tmp and reinstalled vmware.  Will see how it behaves now.

 

by: seth2740Posted on 2009-10-27 at 10:49:51ID: 25675334

ok that didn't last long
I added my vm's to the inventory and just as a test I created a new linux 32bit vm.  After I created it I clicked on it to start it, and got an http 1209 error again.

[2009-10-27 13:46:33,514,view update thread<=>,ConfigOptionPropertyHandler] queryConfigOption failed: (0)null
[2009-10-27 13:46:33,522,waitForUpdates<=>,UpdatesErrorHandler] Updates thread error notification. PrevError=null, NewError=UnknownRemoteException, NewErrorMessage=(0)null
[2009-10-27 13:46:33,523,view update thread<=>,ConfigOptionPropertyHandler] queryConfigOption failed: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
[2009-10-27 13:46:33,532,pool-1-thread-3<=>,ConfigOptionPropertyHandler] queryConfigOption failed: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
[2009-10-27 13:46:33,540,pool-1-thread-10<=>,ConfigOptionPropertyHandler] queryConfigOption failed: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
[2009-10-27 13:47:23,517,pool-1-thread-5<=>,VmOverallPowerStateHandler] Dependent property VM.runtime not loaded by toolkit.

 

by: seth2740Posted on 2009-10-27 at 10:50:39ID: 25675345

oops not 1209, 12029

 

by: seth2740Posted on 2009-10-28 at 09:51:55ID: 25685353


Found a thread of people having the same issue.  Many of them say the issue was fixed by adding loopback to the hosts file.  These 2 systems already have it and still doesn't work.

 

by: seth2740Posted on 2010-02-23 at 11:28:37ID: 26834072

never found a solution....i blew it away and installed ESXi

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