running bamboo in vmware windows guest: unable to connect to http://localhost:8085

[Mattijs de Groot]

Hi,

I just installed bamboo on a Windows 8.1 guest OS running in vmware fusion on my mac. After following the installation guide I execute:

C:\Program Files\Bamboo>bin\start-bamboo.bat

The output is only:

To run Bamboo in the foreground, start the server with start-bamboo.bat /fg

Bamboo Server Edition    Version : 5.9.0

No logs are created and I cannot connect to localhost:8085

If don't think that Bamboo is properly running.

Does anybody know what can be wrong?

[Darshan Kadia]

Actually Bamboo can not find your JAVA_HOME path so please make it correct.
and then try 

[Mattijs de Groot]

Thanks for the tip, but that is not the issue here because that JRE_HOME is
used only on my osx host OS an as I said that works as expected. It is the
Bamboo on the Windows guest OS that does not start properly.

Hope this can be fixed.

Mattijs

[rsperafico]

Please, raise a "Support Request" under "Bamboo Administration >> System >> Atlassian Support Tools" and comment on this "https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/17441071/running-bamboo-in-vmware-windows-guest-unable-to-connect-to-httplocalhost8085-"; so we can follow it up.

[Mattijs de Groot]

Sorry, I don't understand. Where do I find Bamboo Administration >> System >> Atlassian Support Tools? You don't mean in the Bamboo server that is not running?

[Mattijs de Groot]

Solved it! Sorry for the confusion. My JAVA_HOME environment variable was pointing to C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.8.0_45\bin instead of C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.8.0_45

[Mattijs de Groot]

Hi Rafael,

Thanks for your response.

• "ping localhost" responds correctly with "Reply from ::1: time<1ms"
• "telnet localhost 8085" yields: "Connecting To localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on port 8085: Connect failed"
• as I wrote in my question the "<bamboo-install>/logs" directory is completely empty. There are no logs generated at all. That's why I suspect somehow the "start-baboo.bat" does not fully start the bamboo server. When I install Bamboo on my OSX host and run "start-bamboo.sh" the output is much more verbose:
  "

  To run Bamboo in the foreground, start the server with start-bamboo.sh -fg

  Server startup logs are located in /Users/mdgroot/Bamboo/atlassian-bamboo-5.8.1/logs/catalina.out

  Bamboo Standalone Edition

     Version : 5.8.1

  Detecting JVM PermGen support...

  PermGen switch is supported. Setting to 256m

  If you encounter issues starting or stopping Bamboo Server, please see the Troubleshooting guide at https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Installing+and+upgrading+Bamboo

  Using CATALINA_BASE:   /Users/mdgroot/Bamboo/atlassian-bamboo-5.8.1

  Using CATALINA_HOME:   /Users/mdgroot/Bamboo/atlassian-bamboo-5.8.1

  Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Users/mdgroot/Bamboo/atlassian-bamboo-5.8.1/temp

  Using JRE_HOME:        /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home

  Using CLASSPATH:       /Users/mdgroot/Bamboo/atlassian-bamboo-5.8.1/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Users/mdgroot/Bamboo/atlassian-bamboo-5.8.1/bin/tomcat-juli.jar"

  On the mac the following logs are created on startup:

  • access_log.2015-06-13

  • host-manager.2015-06-13.log

  • catalina.2015-06-13.log

  • localhost.2015-06-13.log

  • catalina.out manager.2015-06-13.log

• Here's an exerpt from "netstat -ab":
  Active Connections

  Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
    TCP    0.0.0.0:135            XXX-XXXXXXXXXX:0      LISTENING
    RpcSs
   [svchost.exe]
    TCP    0.0.0.0:445            XXX-XXXXXXXXXX:0      LISTENING
   Can not obtain ownership information
    TCP    0.0.0.0:554            XXX-XXXXXXXXXX:0      LISTENING
   [wmpnetwk.exe]

  .....

    TCP    127.0.0.1:5939         XXX-XXXXXXXXXX:0      LISTENING
   [TeamViewer_Service.exe]
    TCP    127.0.0.1:5939         XXX-XXXXXXXXXX:49259  ESTABLISHED
   [TeamViewer_Service.exe]
    TCP    127.0.0.1:49156        XXX-XXXXXXXXXX:49157  ESTABLISHED

  "

  But there is no localhost:8085.

Hope this information helps to track  down the problem.

Thanks in advance,

Mattijs 

[rsperafico]

Hello Mattijs, Please, upgrade Java as "Using JRE_HOME: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home" is no longer supported by Bamboo v5.8.1 according to our documentation. https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Supported+platforms — Kind regards, Rafael P. Sperafico Atlassian Support

[rsperafico]

Hello Mattijs,

Thank you for your question.

• does "ping localhost" gets resolved?
• are you able to "telnet localhost 8085" successfully?
• are there any errors being thrown in "<bamboo-install>/logs"?
• is there any firewall in place? Please, run "netstat -ab" and make sure port number 8085 is listening

If you find this answer useful, I would kindly ask you to accept it so the same will be visible to others who might be facing the same issue you have inquired.

Thank you for your understanding.

—

Kind regards,
Rafael P. Sperafico
Atlassian Support