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Liferay 7 cannot add or edit page,portlet and sites

I installed Liferay on my server, and i get problem of not being able to add, update the site, page, and portlet. Only in View mode.
Just FYI i'm using:
Liferay 7.0 CE GA6
Linux OS v 3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64
Architecture : amd64
JAVA 1.8.0
The main page of my liferay only displays the Hello World portlet, and the navigation portlet and the configure page displaying message:
This portlet has been undeployed. Please redeploy it or remove it from
the page.
I have read some literature, saying that my liferay bundle is corrupted.
I already downloaded bundle liferay with wget or drag and drop bundle.zip via FTP. But always get the same result.
Resulting errors in tail -f ../logs/catalina.out :
When starting liferay :
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.portletbridge.portlet.GUIDException: error - failure to instantiate GUIDGeneratorjava.net.UnknownHostException: portal: portal: Name or service not known
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ERROR [localhost-startStop-1][com_liferay_portal_osgi_web_portlet_tracker:97] [com.liferay.portal.osgi.web.portlet.tracker.internal.PortletTracker(22)] The activate method has thrown an exception
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.portletbridge.portlet.PortletBridgePortlet.createViewPortlet(PortletBridgePortlet.java:219)
When access navigation portlet or the configure page:
ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-6][BaseJSPPortletConfigurationIcon:59] Unable to include JSP /configuration/icon/copy_applications.jsp
ERROR [localhost-startStop-1][com_liferay_portal_osgi_web_portlet_tracker:97] [com.liferay.portal.osgi.web.portlet.tracker.internal.PortletTracker(22)] The activate method has thrown an exception
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.jsp.configuration.icon.copy_005fapplications_jsp._jspService(copy_005fapplications_jsp:410)
Does any one know how to fix this?
I mean, Liferay can work normally as usual, as in the myliferay on localhost.
Thank you for your attention.

We faced this issue as well recently. Because of an unsatisfied reference, not all of GroupPagesPortlet's services started. In our case, there were an entry in the release_ table which state_ was not 0, it was 1. Value 1 means a failed upgrade.
In our case the workaround/solution was to change the value to 0 then restart the server.
In more details:
1) Connected to Gogo shell
2) Ran scr:list
Found:
[ 389] com.liferay.layout.admin.web.internal.portlet.GroupPagesPortlet enabled
[2746] [unsatisfied reference]
3) Running scr:info on the component ID (2746 in the above output), it reported the following unsatisfied references:
UnsatisfiedReference: MDRActionLocalService
Target: null
(no target services)
UnsatisfiedReference: MDRActionService
Target: null
(no target services)
UnsatisfiedReference: MDRRuleGroupInstanceLocalService
Target: null
(no target services)
UnsatisfiedReference: MDRRuleGroupInstanceService
Target: null
(no target services)
4) Ran dm wtf and it reported that com.liferay.mobile.device.rules.service doesn't have a proper release state, or is at the wrong version:
com.liferay.portal.kernel.model.Release (&(release.bundle.symbolic.name=com.liferay.mobile.device.rules.service)(&(release.schema.version>=1.0.0)(!(release.schema.version>=1.1.0)))(|(!(release.state=*))(release.state=0))) is not found in the service registry
So to summarize, com.liferay.mobile.device.rules.service failed to upgrade, which resulted in all of its transitive dependencies failing to start. GroupPagesPortlet happens to be one of those dependencies.

APPLICATION_DOES_NOT_EXIST for MobileFirst 8.0 Security Authentication?

I am receiving this error when I attempt to authenticate to my Security Check:
errorCode: "APPLICATION_DOES_NOT_EXIST"
errorMsg: "Application doesn't exist"
Here is the error in the server log:
[10/18/16 13:59:32:991 CDT] 00001447 m.mfp.server.registration.internal.rest.RegistrationEndpoint E Failed to process registration request.
com.ibm.mfp.server.security.shared.MFPRESTException: 400; headers=[]; body={ errorCode=APPLICATION_DOES_NOT_EXIST errorMsg=Application doesn't exist}
at com.ibm.mfp.server.security.internal.context.ClientSecurityContextImpl.load(ClientSecurityContextImpl.java:178)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor179.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
I used the UserLogin adapter.
I also used the UserLoginChallengeHandler.js to handle logging-in.
The UserLogin adapter appears in the MobileFirst Console:
I am unsure what this error means. Google shows no results for this error.

I don't think this relates to the security check at all...
As mentioned by Norton, the error is just that - the identifier of the application is not present, in its correct form, in the server.
And as mentioned by Vivin, by using the MobileFirst CLI to register the application (instead of doing so manually via the console), you can minimize the chance of registration "failure" (i.e. incorrectly registering the application).
It could be that when registering the application, you incorrectly entered its version number. Perhaps you've used "1.0" instead of "1.0.0.".
So you can check the following:
The version (can be found in the config.xml file)
The application identifier (can also be found in the config.xml file)
Or use the CLI, from the root folder of the Cordova app: mfpdev app register.

SonarQube/ANT Authentication required for 'svn+ssh://

Using fresh installed SonarQube 5.6, my ANT scanner complains svn: E170001: Authentication required for 'svn+ssh://my-server' while getting author (blame) data.
"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_51\bin\java" ... build.sonar.xml
[...shortened]
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error when executing blame for file /path/to/foo.java
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:116)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:435)
[...shortened]
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error when executing blame for file /path/to/foo.java
at org.sonar.plugins.scm.svn.SvnBlameCommand.blame(SvnBlameCommand.java:102)
[...shortened]
Caused by: org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNAuthenticationException: svn: E170001: Authentication required for 'svn+ssh://my-server'
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.authenticationFailed(SVNErrorManager.java:47)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.authenticationFailed(SVNErrorManager.java:41)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.DefaultSVNAuthenticationManager.getFirstAuthentication(DefaultSVNAuthenticationManager.java:203)
SonarQube-5.6 installation seems fine, I installed Java/JSON plugins as admin before first scan.
My code is obviously hosted at svn+ssh://my-server/path/to/root. There, svnadmin --version says Version 1.5.7 (r36142)
IP of my-server is in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts (I
contact the server through a tunnel and my-server has no DNS entry)
putty session named my-server connects successfully.
svn up works fine via TortoiseSVN v1.9.4 UI and command line and Intellij IDEA.
I have cached my SVN credentials. No pwd prompt when svn up
I use
win10 x64
JDK jdk1.8.0_51 (running ANT/build/sonarqube-ant-task-2.4.1.jar)
JRE version "1.8.0_91" (running SonarQube)
I had cleared my C:\Users\johndoe\AppData\Roaming\Subversion and rentered the pwd.
Any ideas how to get tmatesoft's SVNKit to use my cached authentication data? Thanks a lot!

Passing -Dsvnkit.ssh2.key=path/to/private/key pointing to an OpenSSH formatted private key file helped. I pass it as jvm arg to my ANT that runs the build.xml containing the <sonar> target.
By playing with SVNKit 1.8.12 standalone, logging enabled, I found the complaint about the private key file format.
Now, my scanner runs sucessfully for the first time.
Notably, not passing the correct property value now does not break the scan any more, just a small complaint about missing blame data. But I won't investgate that.

Service will not start: error 1067: the process terminated unexpectedly

We have a custom service that we install with our application. The only problem is that after it is installed, it will not start, generating the error above. I have tried to diagnose what the problem is, but can't seem to find any useful information as to why it is quitting. I have tried the same service on a non "R2" 2008 server, and manual it worked fine.
service simple java file running using batch file. Deamon service.
Has anyone had any experience troubleshooting this type of problem, where there are so few clues?

Goto:
Registry-> HKEY_LOCAL‌​_MACHINE-> System-> Cur‌​rentControlSet-> Servi‌​ces.
Find the concerned service & delete it. Close regedit. Reboot the PC & Re-install the concerned service. Now the error should be gone.

This is a problem related permission.
Make sure that the current user has access to the folder which contains installation files.

I resolved the problem.This is for EAServer Windows Service
Resolution is -->
Open Regedit in Run prompt
Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\EAServer
In parameters, give SERVERNAME entry as EAServer.
[It is sometime overwritten with Envirnoment variable : Path value]

This error message appears if the Windows service launcher has quit immediately after being started.
This problem usually happens because the license key has not been correctly deployed(license.txt file in the license folder).
If service is not strtign with correct key, just put incorrect key and try to start. Once started, place the correct key, it will work.

I had this error, I looked into a log file C:\...\mysql\data\VM-IIS-Server.err and found this
2016-06-07 17:56:07 160c InnoDB: Error: unable to create temporary file; errno: 2
2016-06-07 17:56:07 3392 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
2016-06-07 17:56:07 3392 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
2016-06-07 17:56:07 3392 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
2016-06-07 17:56:07 3392 [ERROR] Aborting
The first line says "unable to create temporary file", it sounds like "insufficient privileges", first I tried to give access to mysql folder for my current user - no effect, then after some wandering around I came up to control panel->Administration->Services->Right Clicked MysqlService->Properties->Log On, switched to "This account", entered my username/password, clicked OK, and it woked!

In my case the error 1067 was caused with a specific version of Tomcat 7.0.96 32-bit in combination with AdoptOpenJDK. Spent two hours on it, un-installing, re-installing and trying different Java settings but Tomcat would not start. See...
ASF Bugzilla – Bug 63625
seems to point at the issue though they refer to seeing a different error.
I tried 7.0.99 32-bit and it started straight away with the same AdoptOpenJDK 32-bit binary install.

I solved this issue using Monitor Tomcat application. I ran it and after a few seconds its icon appeared in my system tray. I right clicked on the icon and clicked the start button and after a few seconds Apache Tomcat started.

Grails - Problem uninstalling Tomcat - Unable to delete catalina-ant.jar

I am working on a grails app and need to remove Tomcat plugin in order to be able to host on Google App Engine (Also to use Jetty for another project)
As instructed on Grails app engine documentation, I need to remove Tomcat as GAE apps only runs on their server.
However, I keep on getting this error (The error message is much longer, only post the first few lines):
: Unable to delete file C:\Users\Rama\.grails\1.3.7\projects\ccubemanager\plugins\tomcat-1.3.7\lib\catalina-ant.jar
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.handle(Delete.java:624)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.removeDir(Delete.java:683)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.removeDir(Delete.java:679)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.execute(Delete.java:543)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor47.invoke(Unknown Source)
I am wondering if deleting the catalina-ant.jar manually would be a wise choice.
I tried to manually delete the whole /plugin directory anyway following this and it caused more mess that I cannot run any command on the app:
groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: java.math.BigInteger.call() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String) values: [target/classes]
Possible solutions: wait(), abs(), abs(), any(), wait(long), add(java.math.BigInteger)
at BuildConfig.run(BuildConfig.groovy:1)
at grails.util.BuildSettings.loadConfig(BuildSettings.groovy:653)
at grails.util.BuildSettings$loadConfig.callCurrent(Unknown Source)
at grails.util.BuildSettings.loadConfig(BuildSettings.groovy:630)
WARNING: There was an error loading the BuildConfig: No signature of method: java.math.BigInteger.call() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String) values: [target/classes]
Possible solutions: wait(), abs(), abs(), any(), wait(long), add(java.math.BigInteger)
I also try to start an entirely new project and uninstall tomcat, surprisingly it does not work either?
I am using Grails 1.3.7; STS 2.6.0; Windows 7
Could anyone please help, thanks alot!!

You should be able to uninstall tomcat by running the following command from the root of the project grails uninstall-plugin tomcat.
This will fail if another process has locked any of the files that the command needs to delete - this could be what is preventing catalina-ant.jar from being deleted. There are various tools available for windows that will tell you which process has a lock on a file. I've used unlocker in the past.