[las_users]LASv8.6.1/2 install problems

[Martin Schmidt <martin.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear LAS wizzards,

Having a pretty old LAS running I took the struts vulnerabilitry as a 
chance to update.

During installation I encountered several problems and need some hints 
or help.

I got version 8.6.1 from the download page.

- unpacking in $TOMCAT_HOME/content, renaming to LAS
- configuring catalog.xml and threddsConfig.xml as described in
http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/LAS/documentation/installer-documentation/installation/installing-and-integrating-tds-with-las
- there is no log4j.xml file in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/thredds/WEB-INF/ . 
So I skipped this, but I am missing ferretIOSP.log

Then I followed:
http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/LAS/documentation/installer-documentation/installation/installing-armstrong
- set JAVA and ferret environment.
- I had to modify configure.pl. "java -version" returns "openjdk version 
"1.8.0_131"" So I changed ^java to ^openjdk
- configure runs through. (usual ferret 7.2, no proxy, example datasets)

I get warnings, among others
addxml-compile:
    [javac] /srv/tomcat/content/las/build.xml:257: warning: 
'includeantruntime' was not set, defaulting to build.sysclasspath=last; 
set to false for repeatable builds
and
    [javac] warning: Implicitly compiled files were not subject to 
annotation processing.
    [javac]   Use -proc:none to disable annotation processing or 
-implicit to specify a policy for implicit compilation.
    [javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
    [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
    [javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
    [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
    [javac] 13 warnings
...
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
...

The F-TDS is working. I can access the test- datasets with the browser 
and with ferret from another machine.

LAS comes up with two maps. I can select data sets, but coordinates and 
axes are not recognised properly. Since no images can be generated, I 
did not explore all options. The error is a missing fondat.dat, the 
ferret environment is not correct. I checked FER_FONTS in the backend - 
looks correct. With this environment I can run ferret with success on 
F-TDS data by hand.
As a next try, again from scratch, I went through the steps described in:
http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/LAS/documentation/the-ferret-thredds-data-server-f-tds/installation-instructions-for-f-tds
Finally the same result. I did not find out:
- do I need FerretBackendConfig.xml or FerretConfig.xml?
- is the correct enclosing xml-tag <application> or <ferret>? I checked 
both with no success.

So I downloaded version 8.6.2. After running configure, F-TDS is working.
- LAS comes up with two live-maps, all boxes and buttons as usual and a 
select-box with "temperature" in the middle  (most probably from the 
"Subset of WOA")
- selecting coads_climatology everything is fine. Images, vectors, 
animations, x-t-plots, y-t-plots. The range-selector has end-time "jan" 
initially, but ....
- reloding and selecting initially Levitus-> salinity changes the 
checkbox to SALINITY, no chance to select a depth value.  Changing the 
checkbox to TEMPERATURE the choice
Z(METERS) shows up but one has to wait for the image forever. The 
request cannot be cancelled.
- selecting "NCEP Monthly Pacific Ocean Analysis Data at Multiple Depths 
served by IR" I have to switch the checkbox for the variable to get the 
choice for depth and time. Finally, I get lat/lon plots for different 
depth and time. For lon/z-plots the range of z cannot be adjusted, the 
checkboxes for start and stop consists only of tiny arrows.
- the WAO subset cannot be displayed. I contains only one variable and I 
cannot change the variable to get the correct axis.
- switching now back to Levitus, I can get lat/lon-plots, but no 
vertical secions. Again the checkboxes have no values.

Before I spam the community with logs and more details - does anyone 
have hints or ideas, how to proceed?

Best,
Martin


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Dr. Martin Schmidt
Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Seestrasse 15
D18119 Rostock
Germany