[GeoNetwork-devel] Unable to start GN following install (3.0)

Cross posting since users list got no response. Help is greatly appreciated!
--Kathy

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Thoughts on what might be wrong or what I can try?

Attempting to install and test 3.0 on a desktop/PC. Installed GN from the .jar in admin mode (Win7, Java 8) and ran startup.bat. Getting some errors around unable to locate crosswalks and org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean...
      ...although it may be something else since it also did not create any logs so a lot of text is scrolling past me in the cmd window...

I also downloaded the 3.0.2 version and tried that but same issues.

NOTE: Original install placed GN in the program files x86 folder. I also tried installing it directly at c:\ since I knew that there were old issues with that and the 2.x versions. At least with that one I got a log file. Here is the text of that >

2015-11-30 15:26:05,340 WARN [geonetwork] - Database does not contain any version information. Check that the database is a GeoNetwork database with data. Migration step aborted.
2015-11-30 15:26:15,885 WARN [geonetwork.data.directory] - - Data directory properties is not set. Use geonetwork.dir or geonetwork.dir properties.
2015-11-30 15:26:15,885 WARN [geonetwork.data.directory] - - Data directory provided could not be used. Using default location: C:\geonetwork\web\geonetwork\WEB-INF\data
2015-11-30 15:26:16,072 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data data-db-
2015-11-30 15:26:16,416 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-eng-
2015-11-30 15:26:16,572 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-fre-
2015-11-30 15:26:16,728 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-ger-
2015-11-30 15:26:16,852 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-spa-
2015-11-30 15:26:16,977 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-cat-
2015-11-30 15:26:17,118 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-rus-
2015-11-30 15:26:17,274 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-por-
2015-11-30 15:26:17,445 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-chi-
2015-11-30 15:26:17,554 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-dut-
2015-11-30 15:26:17,664 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-nor-
2015-11-30 15:26:17,851 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-fin-
2015-11-30 15:26:17,960 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-ara-
2015-11-30 15:26:18,085 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-ita-
2015-11-30 15:26:18,225 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-tur-
2015-11-30 15:26:18,334 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-vie-
2015-11-30 15:26:18,459 WARN [geonetwork.database] - Executing SQL from: WEB-INF\classes\setup\sql\data loc-pol-
2015-11-30 15:26:18,865 WARN [jeeves.apphand] - Cannot initialize Z39.50 repositories because the file JZKitConfig.xml.tem could not be found in the classpath
2015-11-30 15:26:18,865 ERROR [jeeves.apphand] - Repositories file builder FAILED - Z3950 server disabled and Z3950 client services (remote search, harvesting) may not work.
2015-11-30 15:26:19,645 WARN [geonetwork.schemamanager] - Cannot resolve http://www.w3.org/2001/03/xml.xsd: will append last component to current path (not sure it will help though!)
2015-11-30 15:26:20,097 WARN [geonetwork.schemamanager] - WARNING: gco:Record is a global element without a type - assuming a string
2015-11-30 15:26:20,347 WARN [geonetwork.schemamanager] - WARNING: gco:Record is a global element without a type - assuming a string
2015-11-30 15:26:20,347 WARN [geonetwork.schemamanager] - WARNING: schema-substitutions.xml has wiped out XSD substitution list for gml:VerticalDatum
2015-11-30 15:26:20,362 WARN [geonetwork.schemamanager] - WARNING: schema-substitutions.xml has wiped out XSD substitution list for gml:CoordinateSystemAxis
2015-11-30 15:26:20,362 WARN [geonetwork.schemamanager] - WARNING: schema-substitutions.xml has wiped out XSD substitution list for gml:VerticalCS
2015-11-30 15:26:20,362 WARN [geonetwork.schemamanager] - WARNING: schema-substitutions.xml has wiped out XSD substitution list for gml:CoordinateSystemAxis
2015-11-30 15:26:23,826 WARN [geonetwork.lucene] - Stopwords file with incorrect ISO 639-2 language as filename: README

Kathy