[Geoserver-users] Failing installing GDAL extension

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Hi all,

I am finding troubles getting the GDAL extension to work.

I am working on an ubuntu machine with GDAL 1.11

stefano@anonymised.com9…:~/temp$ gdalinfo --version
GDAL 1.11.0, released 2014/04/16

I compiled them from source.

GeoServer is instaleld as a war deployed on Tomcat 7.0.42 with this JRE:

stefano@anonymised.com:~/temp$ java -version
java version “1.6.0_37”
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_37-b06)
Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.12-b01, mixed mode)

I tried to follow the instructions here http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/data/raster/gdal.html, adapting them at my GDAL release.

As stated I downloaded the GDAL extension and saved all the jar files in the lib folder under geoserver.

Then downloaded the imageio-ext-1.1.10-jars.zip archive and copied the jar contained again in the lib folder. This step is a little confusing to me as most of the jar contained are already in the GDAL extension archive.

I modified the startup script for GeoServer, /etc/init.d/tomcat including this two variables:

export GDAL_DATA=/usr/local/share/gdal
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

Then started again GeoServer. I can’t find any error in the log, that is included at this message, but the GDAl formats are not shown in the web interface.

Am I missing something?

Thank you for your hints

Stefano

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Hi Stefano,
please read below…

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On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Stefano Iacovella <stefano.iacovella@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I am finding troubles getting the GDAL extension to work.

I am working on an ubuntu machine with GDAL 1.11

stefano@anonymised.com9…:~/temp$ gdalinfo --version
GDAL 1.11.0, released 2014/04/16

I compiled them from source.

GeoServer is instaleld as a war deployed on Tomcat 7.0.42 with this JRE:

stefano@anonymised.com:~/temp$ java -version
java version “1.6.0_37”
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_37-b06)
Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.12-b01, mixed mode)

I tried to follow the instructions here http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/data/raster/gdal.html, adapting them at my GDAL release.

As stated I downloaded the GDAL extension and saved all the jar files in the lib folder under geoserver.

Then downloaded the imageio-ext-1.1.10-jars.zip archive and copied the jar contained again in the lib folder. This step is a little confusing to me as most of the jar contained are already in the GDAL extension archive.

That step is not needed indeed. The documentation provides instructions to install the CRS definitions and native libs since the JARs are already available in the GeoServer extension.

That being said, the imageio-ext has been developed/tested against GDAL 1.9.2. Not sure if it will work against a newer version of GDAL (native bindings/methods signature may have been changed since that version).

However, let’s move to the next question…

I modified the startup script for GeoServer, /etc/init.d/tomcat including this two variables:

export GDAL_DATA=/usr/local/share/gdal
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

Then started again GeoServer. I can’t find any error in the log, that is included at this message, but the GDAl formats are not shown in the web interface.

That’s strange. You should have seen something like “GDAL version X has been loaded” in case of success OR “WARNING: Unable to load GDAL native libs” in case of failures.

Could you report us (through an “ls”) the list of jars available on your webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib folder?

Cheers,

Daniele

Am I missing something?

Thank you for your hints

Stefano

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2014-07-21 12:40 GMT+02:00 Daniele Romagnoli <
daniele.romagnoli@anonymised.com>:

That step is not needed indeed. The documentation provides instructions to
install the CRS definitions and native libs since the JARs are already
available in the GeoServer extension.

Ok, maybe I misunderstood the instructions, thank for letting me know it.

That being said, the imageio-ext has been developed/tested against GDAL
1.9.2. Not sure if it will work against a newer version of GDAL (native
bindings/methods signature may have been changed since that version).

I was thinking about it as I see that archives from
http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/github/imageio-ext/releases/1.1.X/1.1.10/native/gdal/linux/
are all for 1.9.2

However, let's move to the next question...

I modified the startup script for GeoServer, /etc/init.d/tomcat including
this two variables:

export GDAL_DATA=/usr/local/share/gdal
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

Then started again GeoServer. I can't find any error in the log, that is
included at this message, but the GDAl formats are not shown in the web
interface.

That's strange. You should have seen something like "GDAL version X has
been loaded" in case of success OR "WARNING: Unable to load GDAL native
libs" in case of failures.
Could you report us (through an "ls") the list of jars available on your
webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib folder?

I have included a text file with the result of the ls operation.

Thank you very much for your help

Cheers,

Stefano

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Hi Stefano,

note that you have mixed imageio-ext dependencies: a 1.1.9 set from geoserver-gdal extension as well as 1.1.10 set from the manual install you did copying them from the imageio-ext download section.

Not sure if they are the cause of your issues but I would do a cleanup before trying again.

I think it’s safe to delete all imageio-ext-1.1.10 artifacts (and the imageio-ext-kakadujni too) and try again to see if you get any useful logging message.

Cheers,
Daniele

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On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Stefano Iacovella <stefano.iacovella@anonymised.com> wrote:

2014-07-21 12:40 GMT+02:00 Daniele Romagnoli <daniele.romagnoli@anonymised.com>:

That step is not needed indeed. The documentation provides instructions to install the CRS definitions and native libs since the JARs are already available in the GeoServer extension.

Ok, maybe I misunderstood the instructions, thank for letting me know it.

That being said, the imageio-ext has been developed/tested against GDAL 1.9.2. Not sure if it will work against a newer version of GDAL (native bindings/methods signature may have been changed since that version).

I was thinking about it as I see that archives from http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/github/imageio-ext/releases/1.1.X/1.1.10/native/gdal/linux/ are all for 1.9.2

However, let’s move to the next question…

I modified the startup script for GeoServer, /etc/init.d/tomcat including this two variables:

export GDAL_DATA=/usr/local/share/gdal
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

Then started again GeoServer. I can’t find any error in the log, that is included at this message, but the GDAl formats are not shown in the web interface.

That’s strange. You should have seen something like “GDAL version X has been loaded” in case of success OR “WARNING: Unable to load GDAL native libs” in case of failures.

Could you report us (through an “ls”) the list of jars available on your webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib folder?

I have included a text file with the result of the ls operation.

Thank you very much for your help

Cheers,

Stefano

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanoiacovella

http://twitter.com/#!/Iacovellas

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2014-07-21 14:00 GMT+02:00 Daniele Romagnoli <
daniele.romagnoli@anonymised.com>:

Hi Stefano,
note that you have mixed imageio-ext dependencies: a 1.1.9 set from
geoserver-gdal extension as well as 1.1.10 set from the manual install you
did copying them from the imageio-ext download section.
Not sure if they are the cause of your issues but I would do a cleanup
before trying again.
I think it's safe to delete all imageio-ext-1.1.10 artifacts (and the
imageio-ext-kakadujni too) and try again to see if you get any useful
logging message

I did the cleanup and tried a restart but again I can't find any error in
the log. I also tried to raise the detail in the log, switching to
GEOSERVER_DEVELOPER mode but it didn't help.
Anyway I am pasting the log file in case I missed noting something
important.

Ciao

Stefano

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Mmm… that’s strange.
I will download a GS 2.5.1 as well as the GDAL-extension to see how things work on my instance.

Daniele

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GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit
http://goo.gl/NWWaa2 for more information.

Ing. Daniele Romagnoli
Senior Software Engineer

GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Via Poggio alle Viti 1187
55054 Massarosa (LU)
Italy
phone: +39 0584 962313
fax: +39 0584 1660272

http://www.geo-solutions.it
http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Stefano Iacovella <stefano.iacovella@anonymised.com> wrote:

2014-07-21 14:00 GMT+02:00 Daniele Romagnoli <daniele.romagnoli@anonymised.com>:

Hi Stefano,

note that you have mixed imageio-ext dependencies: a 1.1.9 set from geoserver-gdal extension as well as 1.1.10 set from the manual install you did copying them from the imageio-ext download section.

Not sure if they are the cause of your issues but I would do a cleanup before trying again.

I think it’s safe to delete all imageio-ext-1.1.10 artifacts (and the imageio-ext-kakadujni too) and try again to see if you get any useful logging message

I did the cleanup and tried a restart but again I can’t find any error in the log. I also tried to raise the detail in the log, switching to GEOSERVER_DEVELOPER mode but it didn’t help.

Anyway I am pasting the log file in case I missed noting something important.

Ciao

Stefano

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanoiacovella

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2014-07-21 16:25 GMT+02:00 Daniele Romagnoli <
daniele.romagnoli@anonymised.com>:

Mmm... that's strange.
I will download a GS 2.5.1 as well as the GDAL-extension to see how things
work on my instance.

I have been trying it myself this afternoon.
On a different machine, a Windows 7 with JRE 7 and Tomcat, I installed a
fresh 2.5.1 GeoServer with GDAL extension.
On this machine I used the gdal binaries from here
http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/github/imageio-ext/releases/1.1.X/1.1.10/native/gdal/windows/MSVC2010/

and the CRS data from here:
http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/github/imageio-ext/releases/1.1.X/1.1.10/native/gdal/

After adding the GDAL_DATA environment variable and adding the lib path to
PATH I started the Tomcat.
It works and I can see the additional formats available.
I guess in the other machine the compiled GDAL does not work with the Java
binding, I am just doubtful about the absence of any message in the log.

Ciao

Stefano

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Hi Stefano,

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Stefano Iacovella <
stefano.iacovella@anonymised.com> wrote:

2014-07-21 16:25 GMT+02:00 Daniele Romagnoli <
daniele.romagnoli@anonymised.com>:

Mmm... that's strange.

I will download a GS 2.5.1 as well as the GDAL-extension to see how
things work on my instance.

I have been trying it myself this afternoon.
On a different machine, a Windows 7 with JRE 7 and Tomcat, I installed a
fresh 2.5.1 GeoServer with GDAL extension.
On this machine I used the gdal binaries from here

http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/github/imageio-ext/releases/1.1.X/1.1.10/native/gdal/windows/MSVC2010/

and the CRS data from here:

http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/github/imageio-ext/releases/1.1.X/1.1.10/native/gdal/

After adding the GDAL_DATA environment variable and adding the lib path to
PATH I started the Tomcat.
It works and I can see the additional formats available.
I guess in the other machine the compiled GDAL does not work with the Java
binding, I am just doubtful about the absence of any message in the log.

Any chance you have customized the logging config/properties files?
Still no idea of why you didn't see neither a successfully load log nor a
warning (missing lib) log.

Cheers,
Daniele

Ciao

Stefano

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2014-07-23 16:33 GMT+02:00 Daniele Romagnoli <
daniele.romagnoli@anonymised.com>:

I guess in the other machine the compiled GDAL does not work with the Java

binding, I am just doubtful about the absence of any message in the log.

Any chance you have customized the logging config/properties files?
Still no idea of why you didn't see neither a successfully load log nor a
warning (missing lib) log.

Hi Daniele,

I am sure I didn't edit the logging config/properties files.
Is indeed odd it doesn't show anything as if the jar was ignored.
As soon as possible I will try with a fresh GeoServer instance on the same
machine.
Thank you for your help

Stefano

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