Hi,
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I have set-up DHIS2 on Ubuntu following the instructions from: http://dhis-2.blogspot.com/
everything seems ok, however when starting TomCat i get the error below
/usr/share/tomcat8/bin/catalina.sh: 5: export: : bad variable name
The site does not run, any thoughts?
Made some progress, uninstalled and reinstall Tomcat… server starts but seems to have some errors
sudo -u dhis tomcat-dhis/bin/startup.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: /home/dhis/tomcat-dhis
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat8
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /home/dhis/tomcat-dhis/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/
Using CLASSPATH: /usr/share/tomcat8/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat8/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Tomcat started.
Tomcat started
tail -f tomcat-dhis/logs/catalina.out
SEVERE: One or more listeners failed to start. Full details will be found in the appropriate container
log file
May 23, 2019 3:12:15 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Context [] startup failed due to previous errors
* INFO 2019-05-23 15:12:15,583 De-registering jdbc driver: org.postgresql.Driver@7be22040
(StartupListener.java [localhost-startStop-1])
May 23, 2019 3:12:15 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deployment of web application archive /home/dhis/tomcat-dhis/webapps/ROOT.war has
finished in 66,694 ms
May 23, 2019 3:12:15 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]
May 23, 2019 3:12:15 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 66873 ms
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
apologies for all the reply’s … getting closer.
Seems the main part of the error (full log below) is
Connection to localhost:5432 refused. Check that the hostname and port are correct and that the postmaster is accepting TCP/IP connections
Any thoughts ?
Sorry for the big block of error
May 23, 2019 4:17:34 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioSelectorPool getSharedSele ctor
INFO: Using a shared selector for servlet write/read
May 23, 2019 4:17:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1425 ms
May 23, 2019 4:17:34 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
INFO: Starting service Catalina
May 23, 2019 4:17:34 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/8.0.32 (Ubuntu)
May 23, 2019 4:17:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive /home/dhis/tomcat-dhis/webapps/ROOT.war
May 23, 2019 4:17:48 PM org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner scanJars
INFO: At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLD s were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.
* INFO 2019-05-23 16:17:52,913 System property dhis2.home not set (DefaultLocat ionManager.java [localhost-startStop-1])
* INFO 2019-05-23 16:17:52,921 Environment variable DHIS2_HOME points to /home/ dhis/config (DefaultLocationManager.java [localhost-startStop-1])
* INFO 2019-05-23 16:17:53,105 File /home/dhis/config/dhis-google-auth.json doe s not exist (DefaultLocationManager.java [localhost-startStop-1])
* INFO 2019-05-23 16:17:53,106 Could not find dhis-google-auth.json (DefaultDhi sConfigurationProvider.java [localhost-startStop-1])
* INFO 2019-05-23 16:17:53,112 File /home/dhis/config/dhis-google-auth.json doe s not exist (DefaultLocationManager.java [localhost-startStop-1])
* INFO 2019-05-23 16:17:53,112 Could not find dhis-google-auth.json (DefaultDhi sConfigurationProvider.java [localhost-startStop-1])
* INFO 2019-05-23 16:17:59,483 Hibernate configuration loaded: dialect: 'org.hisp.dhis.hibernate.dialect.DhisPostgresDialect', region factory: 'org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.EhCacheRegionFactory', connec tion pool max size: 80 (DefaultHibernateConfigurationProvider.java [localhost-startStop-1])
* WARN 2019-05-23 16:18:30,349 com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool$ScatteredAcquireTask@3b2c3820 -- Acquisition Attempt Failed!!! Clearing pending acquires. While trying to acquire a needed n ew resource, we failed to succeed more than the maximum number of allowed acquisition attempts (30). Last acquisition attempt exception: (Slf4jMLog.java [C3P0PooledConnectionPoolManager[identityToken-> z8kfsxa21r2tsti1qcafjl|7d3cc9ab]-HelperThread-#0])
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Connection to localhost:5432 refused. Check that the hostname and port are correct and that the postmaster is accepting TCP/IP connections.
at org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.openConnectionImpl(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:280)
at org.postgresql.core.ConnectionFactory.openConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:49)
at org.postgresql.jdbc.PgConnection.<init>(PgConnection.java:195)
at org.postgresql.Driver.makeConnection(Driver.java:454)
at org.postgresql.Driver.connect(Driver.java:256)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.DriverManagerDataSource.getConnection(DriverManagerDataSource.java:175)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.getPooledConnection(WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.java:220)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.getPooledConnection(WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.java:206)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.C3P0PooledConnectionPool$1PooledConnectionResourcePoolManager.acquireResource(C3P0PooledConnectionPool.java:203)
at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.doAcquire(BasicResourcePool.java:1138)
at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.doAcquireAndDecrementPendingAcquiresWithinLockOnSuccess(BasicResourcePool.java:1125)
at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.access$700(BasicResourcePool.java:44)
at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool$ScatteredAcquireTask.run(BasicResourcePool.java:1870)
at com.mchange.v2.async.ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner$PoolThread.run(ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner.java:696)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)
at org.postgresql.core.PGStream.<init>(PGStream.java:70)
at org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.tryConnect(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:91)
at org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.openConnectionImpl(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:192)
... 13 more
May 23, 2019 4:18:30 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: One or more listeners failed to start. Full details will be found in the appropriate container log file
May 23, 2019 4:18:30 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Context [] startup failed due to previous errors
* INFO 2019-05-23 16:18:30,512 De-registering jdbc driver: org.postgresql.Driver@527cb404 (StartupListener.java [localhost-startStop-1])
May 23, 2019 4:18:30 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deployment of web application archive /home/dhis/tomcat-dhis/webapps/ROOT.war has finished in 56,238 ms
May 23, 2019 4:18:30 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]
May 23, 2019 4:18:30 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 56397 ms
@ACL do you get the solution for your issue . I am facing the same similar challenge where i am trying ton upgrade to version 37 but failed ton start
Hi @Shapr0019
Please if you are still facing an issue, since this is a topic post from 2019, you might want to start a new topic with all the necessary details for the problem to be debugged and solved. 
Thank you!