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Opening app on macOS 11 Big Sur from JavaFX application randomly fails with kLSNoExecutableErr

We have a desktop JavaFX application (well, TornadoFX) that downloads an archive, extracts another app from it and launches this app with macOS open command.
Simplified kotlin code looks like:
ProcessBuilder(listOf("open", "/path/to/app.app", "arg")).start()
This has worked for years on older versions of macOS (10.15 and earlier) but now with macOS 11 Big Sur launching the app sometimes succeeds and sometimes fails.
In the mac Console.app following error can be seen:
OSStatus _LSCopyApplicationNodeFromOpenState(LSOpenState *): Returning kLSNoExecutableErr because node is a directory but we failed to register with error -10814
We extended the logic to check if all the files are really there before launching the app, and the files existed.
There is an assumption that maybe Launch Services database is not updated fast enough.
Following ways of trying to log what might be happening, didn't reveal any errors:
lsappinfo listen +all forever
log stream --debug --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.coreservices.launchservices"'
Does anybody have a clue if there is a way to avoid this behavior and to be always able to launch the app?

After a lot of research and debugging, what seem to have worked for us, was to force Launch Services to register the app in its database by executing command like:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -f /path/to/app.app
and afterwards we could launch the app.
The idea for such solution was found in this answer.

heroku nodejs app - events.js:167 Error Unhandled 'error' event : spawn java ENOENT

I'm having a node-js app on Heroku using the pdfMerge.js library.
following the documentation I'm using the stream event mechanism as a callback to identify the end of the process
then an exception is thrown :
events.js:167 Error: spawn java ENOENT.
I'm almost sure it's happening because I'm messing required java installation as described here:
pdfmerger combines multiple PDF-files into a single PDF-file. It is a node module that utilizes the Apache PDFBox Library, which the required functionality are distributed along with this module. The only requirement for this module to run, is having Java 6 or higher in the path.
I'm Not familiar enough with Heroku installation/configuration process in order to make it work.
thanks in advance

You can add Java to your app by adding the heroku/jvm buildpack like this:
$ heroku buildpacks:add -i 1 heroku/jvm
Then redeploy with git commit --allow-empty and git push heroku master.

Apache tomcat7 as windows service

I am trying to create a windows service for Apache tomcat 7.0.45.
( in windows version 7)
I executed this :
C:/tomcat7/bin> service install Mytomcat7
Windows service has been created. but it wont start and throws "specific server error code 4".
Can you please help with the steps to create windows service.

I had the same problem!
Found out, that the service.bat didn't configure the service the right way. If you enable the logging from your service starter:
Then you'll see in your loggs something like:
[2014-02-19 16:40:35] [error] ( javajni.c:863 ) [ 2636] FindClass org/apache/catalina/startup/Bootstrap failed
[2014-02-19 16:40:35] [debug] ( javajni.c:964 ) [ 2636] Java Worker thread finished org/apache/catalina/startup/Bootstrap:main with status=3
[2014-02-19 16:40:35] [error] ( prunsrv.c:1183) [ 5000] Failed to start Java
[2014-02-19 16:40:35] [error] ( prunsrv.c:1536) [ 5000] ServiceStart returned 4
You'll notice that there is some classpath problem with the starter. In fact that's the problem! Your service.bat didn't configure the service the right way:
Note: You can also choose "Use default" above "Java Virtual Machine" to use whatever JVM is defined in JAVA_HOME
You'll need to set the classpath correctly:
c:\webclient\apache-tomcat\bin\tomcat-juli.jar;c:\webclient\apache-tomcat\bin\tomcat-juli.jar;c:\webclient\apache-tomcat\bin\bootstrap.jar
In my case i "installed" tomcat at: c:\webclient\apache-tomcat replace that part with yours. In my case not even the Java VM was set.. I'm not shure whether this is a problem with the current versions of tomcat (and it's service.bat), or with some sort of permission problem on the windows server itself..

To solve this error perform the following steps:
Run the tomcat7w.exe monitor application found in <TOMCAT_HOME>/bin.Tomcat7w is a GUI application for monitoring and configuring Tomcat services. If you named your service Mytomcat7 you will need to rename this file to Mytomcat7.exe before running it
In the "Startup" tab change the value of "Mode" from jvm to Java
Do the same in the "Shutdown" tab

The easiest way to setup a tomcat Windows service is to use the Tomcat Windows Service Installer found on the same page as tomcat downloads.
http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi
However, if you are unable to use this installer. Then you can as you have try the above. The service created 'Mytomcat7' can be managed by the tomcat7w.exe file, after you rename it to 'Mytomcat7w.exe'.
Run the renamed file and you will be able to see all options for the service. The error you are seeing is likely related to an invalid JVM location or JVM mode not set to auto.
Details of settings found here:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/windows-service-howto.html
I would just use the installer, it will make your life easier.
http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/rsync.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.50/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.50.exe

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.

Deploying a java play application

I created a small play application and generated the dist files using "play dist"
After running the "start" script, the application works locally, but when I try to unzip the file generated on a server or giving it to other colleagues, the output says :
./start
Play server process ID is 13585
[info] play - Application started (Prod)
[info] play - Listening for HTTP on /0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9000
When i access the server on port 9000 (http://correct-server-url-or-ip:9000) , the browser shows that the page is loading but it never loads.
If I kill the process on the server, the browser immediately shows an error.
I am not sure why it works on my machine but doesn't deploy on other machines with similar configurations.
Did anyone have a problem like that? or know how to fix it?
Thank you