when war is being loaded, it fails. It turns out to be related to the geonode extension due to a recent change in 2.6.x or one of its dependancies. disabling the ext by removing the complied classes for this extension and removing the corresponding files in the data folder will let geoserver load.
----------------- catalina.out
Sep 10, 2015 9:16:20 PM org.geoserver.platform.GeoServerExtensions extensions
WARNING: bean lookup error
java.lang.IllegalStateException: BeanFactory not initialized or already closed - call 'refresh' before accessing beans via the ApplicationContext
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.getBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:172)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBeanNamesForType(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1162)
at org.geoserver.platform.GeoServerExtensions.extensions(GeoServerExtensions.java:135)
at org.geoserver.platform.GeoServerExtensions.bean(GeoServerExtensions.java:321)
at org.geoserver.platform.GeoServerExtensions.bean(GeoServerExtensions.java:304)
at org.vfny.geoserver.crs.GeoserverWKTOperationFactory.getDefinitionsURL(GeoserverWKTOperationFactory.java:44)
at org.geotools.referencing.factory.epsg.CoordinateOperationFactoryUsingWKT.createBackingStore(CoordinateOperationFactoryUsingWKT.java:178)
at org.geotools.referencing.factory.DeferredAuthorityFactory.getBackingStore(DeferredAuthorityFactory.java:133)
at org.geotools.referencing.factory.BufferedAuthorityFactory.isAvailable(BufferedAuthorityFactory.java:235)
at org.geotools.referencing.factory.DeferredAuthorityFactory.isAvailable(DeferredAuthorityFactory.java:119)
at org.geotools.factory.FactoryRegistry.isAvailable(FactoryRegistry.java:667)
at org.geotools.factory.FactoryRegistry.isAcceptable(FactoryRegistry.java:501)
at org.geotools.factory.FactoryRegistry$1.filter(FactoryRegistry.java:192)
at javax.imageio.spi.FilterIterator.advance(ServiceRegistry.java:810)
at javax.imageio.spi.FilterIterator.<init>(ServiceRegistry.java:804)
at javax.imageio.spi.ServiceRegistry.getServiceProviders(ServiceRegistry.java:508)
at org.geotools.factory.FactoryRegistry.getServiceProviders(FactoryRegistry.java:197)
at org.geotools.referencing.ReferencingFactoryFinder.getFactories(ReferencingFactoryFinder.java:180)
at org.geotools.referencing.ReferencingFactoryFinder.getCoordinateOperationAuthorityFactories(ReferencingFactoryFinder.java:489)
at org.geoserver.GeoserverInitStartupListener.contextDestroyed(GeoserverInitStartupListener.java:250)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStop(StandardContext.java:5014)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.stopInternal(StandardContext.java:5659)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.stop(LifecycleBase.java:232)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:160)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:632)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:1073)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1857)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
--------------- std err out:
Sep 11, 2015 7:55:18 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.geoserver.platform.GeoServerContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error occured reading security configuration; nested exception is java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to initialize GeoNode settings
at org.geoserver.security.GeoServerSecurityManager.onApplicationEvent(GeoServerSecurityManager.java:353)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:97)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:327)
at org.geoserver.platform.GeoServerContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(GeoServerContextLoaderListener.java:26)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4973)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5467)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:632)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:1073)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1857)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to initialize GeoNode settings
at org.geonode.security.GeoNodeSecurityProvider.init(GeoNodeSecurityProvider.java:79)
at org.geoserver.security.GeoServerSecurityManager.onApplicationEvent(GeoServerSecurityManager.java:350)
... 16 more
Caused by: org.geoserver.config.util.SecureXStream$ForbiddenClassExceptionEx: Unauthorized class found, see logs for more details on how to handle it: org.geonode.security.GeoNodeAuthFilt$
at org.geoserver.config.util.SecureXStream$DetailedSecurityExceptionWrapper.realClass(SecureXStream.java:173)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:30)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.CachingMapper.realClass(CachingMapper.java:47)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.util.HierarchicalStreams.readClassType(HierarchicalStreams.java:29)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.start(TreeUnmarshaller.java:133)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.unmarshal(AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.java:32)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:1185)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:1169)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.fromXML(XStream.java:1049)
at org.geoserver.config.util.XStreamPersister.load(XStreamPersister.java:587)
at org.geoserver.security.GeoServerSecurityManager.loadConfigFile(GeoServerSecurityManager.java:2753)
at org.geoserver.security.GeoServerSecurityManager.loadConfigFile(GeoServerSecurityManager.java:2765)
at org.geoserver.security.GeoServerSecurityManager$HelperBase.loadConfig(GeoServerSecurityManager.java:2809)
at org.geoserver.security.GeoServerSecurityManager$HelperBase.loadConfig(GeoServerSecurityManager.java:2816)
at org.geoserver.security.GeoServerSecurityManager$FilterHelper.load(GeoServerSecurityManager.java:3281)
at org.geoserver.security.GeoServerSecurityManager.loadFilter(GeoServerSecurityManager.java:1454)
at org.geoserver.security.GeoServerSecurityFilterChainProxy.lookupFilter(GeoServerSecurityFilterChainProxy.java:246)
at org.geoserver.security.validation.SecurityConfigValidator.validateRequestFilterChain(SecurityConfigValidator.java:229)
at org.geoserver.security.validation.SecurityConfigValidator.validateManagerConfig(SecurityConfigValidator.java:162)
at org.geoserver.security.GeoServerSecurityManager.saveSecurityConfig(GeoServerSecurityManager.java:1563)
at org.geonode.security.GeoNodeSecurityProvider.configureChains(GeoNodeSecurityProvider.java:144)
at org.geonode.security.GeoNodeSecurityProvider.configureGeoNodeSecurity(GeoNodeSecurityProvider.java:98)
at org.geonode.security.GeoNodeSecurityProvider.init(GeoNodeSecurityProvider.java:75)
... 17 more
Caused by: com.thoughtworks.xstream.security.ForbiddenClassException: org.geonode.security.GeoNodeAuthFilterConfig
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.security.NoTypePermission.allows(NoTypePermission.java:26)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.SecurityMapper.realClass(SecurityMapper.java:74)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:30)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:30)
at org.geoserver.config.util.SecureXStream$DetailedSecurityExceptionWrapper.realClass(SecureXStream.java:150)
... 39 more
Sep 11, 2015 7:55:18 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Closing Spring root WebApplicationContext
when war is being loaded, it fails. It turns out to be related to the geonode extension due to a recent change in 2.6.x or one of its dependancies. disabling the ext by removing the complied classes for this extension and removing the corresponding files in the data folder will let geoserver load.