javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Transaction failed to flush - java

I got the JPA exception
"javax.persistence.PersistenceException:
Transaction failed to flush"
Then I deleted my local datastore(datastore-indexes-auto.xml and local_db.bin) from my system. Recreated all the data again and after that, the exception was gone. I want to know what did just happened ?
The following is the stacktrace
[RPC Fault faultString="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaSystemException : Transaction failed to flush; nested exception is javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Transaction failed to flush" faultCode="Server.Processing" faultDetail="null"]
at mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::faultHandler()[C:\autobuild\3.5.0\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\rpc\AbstractInvoker.as:290]
at mx.rpc::Responder/fault()[C:\autobuild\3.5.0\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\rpc\Responder.as:58]
at mx.rpc::AsyncRequest/fault()[C:\autobuild\3.5.0\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\rpc\AsyncRequest.as:103]
at NetConnectionMessageResponder/statusHandler()[C:\autobuild\3.5.0\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\messaging\channels\NetConnectionChannel.as:581]
at mx.messaging::MessageResponder/status()[C:\autobuild\3.5.0\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\messaging\MessageResponder.as:222]

I don't know google-app-engine, but I assume you have some limited space in DB there? Maybe you just run out of space?

I believe it is due to this problem with the time it takes for AppEngine to start up, thereby causing timeout errors.
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/12/request-performance-in-java.html
If you've been following the App Engine Java runtime group, you may
have noticed some discussions about performance of the Java runtime.
Many of you have complained about hard-to-predict
DeadlineExceededExceptions, or unexpectedly slow requests that use a
high amount of CPU. These issues often have the same root cause: App
Engine is preparing a new instance of your code to respond an incoming
request.
It was reported by Grails http://jira.grails.org/browse/GPAPPENGINE-67
There is an open issue Google has not fixed yet, even after several years.
https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7706
As a Java project becomes more complicated and requires loading more
classes & jars at startup, instance startup time degrades to the point
where instances blow the 60s user-facing request deadline.
You MIGHT be able to work around this by keeping an idle instance resident in memory so it doesn't have to spin up.
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/performancesettings#scheduler
https://appengine.google.com/settings

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Disable locking of Neo4j graph database?

My application is populating a Neo4j graph database at /tmp/import.db. In addition to my unit tests I like to use the Neo4j browser (AKA Neo4j Community) to do some digging in that same database. When the browser is running, my application crashes when it gets run because the database it is locked:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Error starting org.neo4j.kernel.EmbeddedGraphDatabase, /tmp/import.db
at org.neo4j.kernel.InternalAbstractGraphDatabase.run(InternalAbstractGraphDatabase.java:330)
at org.neo4j.kernel.EmbeddedGraphDatabase.<init>(EmbeddedGraphDatabase.java:63)
at org.neo4j.graphdb.factory.GraphDatabaseFactory$1.newDatabase(GraphDatabaseFactory.java:92)
at org.neo4j.graphdb.factory.GraphDatabaseBuilder.newGraphDatabase(GraphDatabaseBuilder.java:198)
at org.neo4j.graphdb.factory.GraphDatabaseFactory.newEmbeddedDatabase(GraphDatabaseFactory.java:69)
at no.marcello.cmdb.Import.<init>(Import.java:34)
at no.marcello.cmdb.Main.main(Main.java:10)
Caused by: org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifecycleException: Component 'org.neo4j.kernel.StoreLockerLifecycleAdapter#5d20e46' was successfully initialized, but failed to start. Please see attached cause exception.
at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport$LifecycleInstance.start(LifeSupport.java:509)
at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport.start(LifeSupport.java:115)
at org.neo4j.kernel.InternalAbstractGraphDatabase.run(InternalAbstractGraphDatabase.java:307)
... 6 more
Caused by: org.neo4j.kernel.StoreLockException: Unable to obtain lock on store lock file: /tmp/import.db/store_lock. Please ensure no other process is using this database, and that the directory is writable (required even for read-only access)
at org.neo4j.kernel.StoreLocker.checkLock(StoreLocker.java:82)
at org.neo4j.kernel.StoreLockerLifecycleAdapter.start(StoreLockerLifecycleAdapter.java:44)
at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport$LifecycleInstance.start(LifeSupport.java:503)
... 8 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unable to lock sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl#70b0b186
at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.nioneo.store.FileLock.wrapFileChannelLock(FileLock.java:38)
at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.nioneo.store.FileLock.getOsSpecificFileLock(FileLock.java:93)
at org.neo4j.kernel.DefaultFileSystemAbstraction.tryLock(DefaultFileSystemAbstraction.java:89)
at org.neo4j.kernel.StoreLocker.checkLock(StoreLocker.java:74)
... 10 more
Now I have to neo4j stop and neo4j start between every run of my application to see the changes. My hands got tired of that.
Can I disable locking of the database when using the Neo4j browser? I'd like to do that for testing purposes, as it helps alot to see how my database model evolves while I'm populating it.
Database systems -- small ones, anyway -- can often run in either of two modes: embedded or server. In embedded mode, the idea is that one program and only one program can read and write to the database at a time. This is quite useful for many applications, and allows the database to dispense with the code necessary to allow access among multiple programs, which eats up time, code, and processing power.
In server mode, the database management system itself runs as a separate program, and it is built to have multiple programs access it.
Based on the class in the error message above, you have an embedded database, so the answer to your question is "no, you can't do that in this mode". You can switch to using a server mode of neo4j, I expect, but connecting to it will involve some code changes, and you then have the minor problems of making sure your database system is running when your program runs, etc.
So you can do it with this database data, but you have to change the mode in which you are running the database management system.

JDBC requests to Oracle 11g failing to be commited although apparently succeding

We have an older web-based application (Java with Spring 2.5.4 framework) running on a GlassFish 3.1 (build 43) server. This application was recently (a few weeks ago) re-directed to use an Oracle 11g (11.2.0.3.0) database and ojdbc6.jar/orai18n.jar (up from Oracle 10g 10.2.0.3.0 and ojdbc14.jar) -- using a JDBC Thin connection. The application is using org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource version 1.2.2 for connections and the database requests are handled either through Spring jdbcTemplate (via the JdbcDaoSupport abstract class) or Spring's PlatformTransactionManager.
This morning we noticed that application users were able to enter information, modify it and later to retrieve and print that data through the application, but that there were no committed updates for the last 24 hours. This application currently has only a few users each day and they are apparently sharing the same connection which has been kept open by the connection pool during the last day and so their uncommitted updates were visible through the application, but not through other connections to the database. When the connection was closed, the uncommitted updates were lost.
Examining the server logs showed no errors from the time of the last committed changes to the database through the times of printed reports the next morning. In addition, even if some of the changes had been (somehow) made with the JDBC connection being set to Auto-Commit false, there were specific commits made for some of those updates that were part of a transaction which, as part of a try/catch block should have either executed one of the "transactionManager.commit(transactionStatus);" or "transactionManager.rollback(transactionStatus);" calls that must have been processed without error. It looks as though the commit was returning successfully, but no commit actually occurred.
Restarting the GlassFish domain and the application restored the normal operation with the various updates being committed as they are entered.
My question is has anyone seen or heard about anything like this occurring and, if so, what could have caused it?
Thank you for any ideas here -- we are at a loss.
Some new information:
Examination of our Oracle 11g Server showed that near the time that we believe that the commits appeared to stop, there were four operations blocked on some other operation that we were not able to fully resolve, but was probably an update.
Examination of the Glassfish Server logs showed that the appearance of the worker threads changed following this estimated start time and fewer threads were appearing in the log until only one thread continued to be used for several hours.
The problem occurred again about one week later and was caught after about 1/2 hour. At this time, there were two worker threads in operation.
The problem occurred due to a combination of two things. The first was a method that setup a Spring Transaction, but had an exit that bypassed both the TransactionManager.commit() and the TransactionManager.rollback() (as well as the several SQL requests making up the transaction). Although this was admittedly incorrect coding, in the past, this transaction was closed and therefore had no effect on subsequent usage.
The solution was to insure that the transaction was not started if there was nothing to be done; or, in general double check to make sure that all transactions, once started, are completed.
I am not certain of the exact how or why this problem began presenting itself, so the following is partly conjectured. Apparently, upgrading to Oracle 11g and/or switching to the ojdbc6.jar driver altered the earlier behavior of the incorrect code so that the transaction was not terminated and the connection auto-commit was left false. (It could also be due to some other change that we have not identified since the special case above happens rarely – but does happen.) The corresponding JDBC connection appears to be bound to a specific GlassFish worker thread (I will call this a 'bad' thread in the following as opposed to the normally acting 'good' threads). Whenever this 'bad' thread is used to handle an application request (for this particular application), changes are uncommitted and selects return dirty data. As time goes on, when a change is requested on a 'good' thread and JDBC connection that already has an uncommitted change made on the 'bad' thread, than the new request hangs and the worker thread also hangs. Eventually all but the 'bad' worker thread are hung and everything seems to work correctly from the application viewpoint, but nothing is ever committed.
Again, the solution was to correct the bad code.

An SQLException was provoked, java.lang.InterruptedException, am I running out of db connections?

So we run a Hibernate, Spring, Spring Webflow stack. From what I've read so far it might also be important to know we use c3p0-0.9.1.2.
Over the last couple of days we've noticed the server suddenly stop. Users cannot log into the website, nothing appears to happen, the browser simply sits loading the page forever. The server logs also simply halt.
When we notice this we shutdown the tomcat instance and all of a sudden quite a few of the following errors get logged;
13:05:57.492 [TP-Processor7] WARN o.h.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - SQL Error: 0, SQLState: null
13:05:57.492 [TP-Processor7] ERROR o.h.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - An SQLException was provoked by the following failure: java.lang.InterruptedException
Any ideas what these mean? Google hasn't been too helpful. Are we leaking db connections somewhere and the pool cannot gain a new session?
We have just put in a couple new Spring Webflow flows and are experiencing a slightly increased amount of website traffic but we haven't seen this behaviour before.
I suspect those InterruptExceptions come from the actual shutdown of those threads by the container, and simply indicate that those threads are existant when Tomcat shuts down.
Instead, I would grab a thread dump from Tomcat when it next freezes. I would also get a DBA to tell you what's happening in the database. From the above I'm guessing you're hung on a database resource, but a thread dump and analysis from a DBA will certainly point you in the right direction.
Here's a Thread Dump JSP as an alternative means of generating thread dumps.

How to fix error: [BEA][SQLServer JDBC Driver]No more data available to read

My java application does use DB Connection pooling. One of the functionality started failing today with this error:
[BEA][SQLServer JDBC Driver]No more data available to read
This doesn't occur daily. Once I restart my application server things look fine for some days and this error comes back again.
Anyone encountered this error? Reasons might vary, but I would like to know those various reasons to mitigate my issue.
Is it possible that the database or network connection has briefly had an outage? You might expect any currently open result sets then to become invalid with resulting errors.
I've never seen this particular error, but then I don't work with BEA or SQL Server, but a quick google does show other folks suggesting such a cause.
When you're using a connection pool, if you do get such a glitch, then all connections in teh pool become "stale" or invalid. My application server (WebSphere) has the option to discard the entire connection pool after particular errors are detected. The result then is that one unlucky request sees the error, but then subsequent requests get a new connection and recover. If you don't discard the whole pool then you get a failure as each stale connection is used and discarded.
I suggest you investigate to see a). whether your app server has such a capability b). how you application responds if the database is bounced, if this replicates the error then maybe you've found the cause.

JDBC connection for a background thread being closed accessing in Websphere

I have an application running in Websphere Portal Server inside of Websphere Application Server 6.0 (WAS). In this application for one particular functionality that takes a long time to complete, I am firing a new thread that performs this action. This new thread opens a new Session from Hibernate and starts performing DB transactions with it. Sometimes (haven't been able to see a pattern), the transactions inside the thread work fine and the process completes successfully. Other times however I get the errors below:
org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: could not load an entity: [OBJECT NAME#218294]
...
Caused by: com.ibm.websphere.ce.cm.ObjectClosedException: DSRA9110E: Connection is closed.
Method cleanup failed while trying to execute method cleanup on ManagedConnection WSRdbManagedConnectionImpl#642aa0d8 from resource jdbc/MyJDBCDataSource. Caught exception: com.ibm.ws.exception.WsException: DSRA0080E: An exception was received by the Data Store Adapter. See original exception message: Cannot call 'cleanup' on a ManagedConnection while it is still in a transaction..
How can I stop this from happening? Why does it seem that WAS wants to kill my connections even though they're not done. Is there a way I can stop WAS from attempting to close this particular connection?
Thanks
I mentioned two possible causes in my other answer: 1. the hibernate.connection.release_mode optional parameter or 2. a problem with unmanaged threads. Now that I read this question, I really start to think that your problem may be related to the fact that you're spawning your own threads. Since they aren't managed by the container, connections used in these treads may appear as "leaked" (not closed properly) and I wouldn't be surprised if WAS tries to recover them at some point.
If you want to start a long running job, you should use a WorkManager. Don't spawn threads yourself.

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