| Issue 1898: | Exception in openBrowser thrown when installing Gerrit on a headless machine | |
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Affected Version: 2.6-rc1 The problem was not present in 2.5.2. What steps will reproduce the problem? Perform a fresh Gerrit install, using a command line: java -jar /path/to/gerrit-2.6-rc1.war init -d /path/to/gerrit/site What is the expected output? What do you see instead? At the end of the instal, I see the following output: Initialized /path/to/gerrit/site Executing /path/to/gerrit/site/bin/gerrit.sh start Starting Gerrit Code Review: OK Waiting for server to start ... OK Opening browser ... Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Exception: Failed to start a browser to open the URL http://jenkins.diamond.ac.uk:8081/#/admin/projects/: Browser detection failed and system property h2.browser not set at org.h2.tools.Server.openBrowser(Server.java:647) at com.google.gerrit.pgm.init.Browser.open(Browser.java:89) at com.google.gerrit.pgm.Init$SiteRun.start(Init.java:249) at com.google.gerrit.pgm.Init.run(Init.java:93) at com.google.gerrit.pgm.util.AbstractProgram.main(AbstractProgram.java:67) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at com.google.gerrit.launcher.GerritLauncher.invokeProgram(GerritLauncher.java:168) at com.google.gerrit.launcher.GerritLauncher.mainImpl(GerritLauncher.java:92) at com.google.gerrit.launcher.GerritLauncher.main(GerritLauncher.java:50) at Main.main(Main.java:25) Two problems here: (1) The install was done by SSHing to a headless server (Linux). Gerrit should not assume that a browser is available on the system where the install is done - in fact, it's quite likely that there isn't one, since Gerrit would typically run on a server-type machine. (2) If I did want to specify a path to a browser, I'm unlikely to realize system property h2.browser is what I need - since I'm not using the H2 database! Probably the simplest fix is just to catch the exception and output a message asking the user to go the URL. In fact, in 2.5.2 Gerrit never tried to open a browser, it just told the user to.
May 6, 2013
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Blocking-2.6
May 14, 2013
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Labels: -Blocking-2.6 FixedIn-2.6 |
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