Saturday, October 27, 2007

Generate Jar Files Hangs While Applying A Patch

Recently while i was applying a patch in our environment, the generation of jar files was hung. It would not progress. Now, on a windows 2000 server, it is known to us that when the number of characters in the path statement exceeds 1000 characters, the patch gets stuck at adjkey (signing the jar files process) which we refer to as "genjars.cmd". However, this time around it did not seem to be the case.

The problem was the missing "identitydb.obj" file under the %HOME% directory. The identitydb.obj file aka identity database, holds the certificate authority details alongside the certificate and is required to sign a jar file that is delivered by the patch.

Actually, it looks like that the profile of the owner of the applications file system, in other words, the domain user account profile that was used to install the apps, was deleted from this particular server.

- Aravind Kamath

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