Only Username Expected in Production Mode of WebLogic ??

Hello Guys,

Sometime during experiments with WebLogic Server 9.x you might have seen the issue similar to the below while starting the Admin Server or Managed Servers.


[sdyade@sllinux4 bin]$ ./startWebLogic.sh

JAVA Memory arguments: -Xms256m -Xmx512m -verbose:gc
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WLS Start Mode=Production
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CLASSPATH=:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/patch_weblogic923/profiles/default/sys_manifest_classpath/weblogic_patch.jar:/home/sdyade/jrockit-R27.2.0-jre1.5.0_10/lib/tools.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server/lib/weblogic_sp.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server/lib/weblogic.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server/lib/webservices.jar::/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/common/eval/pointbase/lib/pbclient51.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server/lib/xqrl.jar::
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PATH=/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server/bin:/home/sdyade/jrockit-R27.2.0-jre1.5.0_10/jre/bin:/home/sdyade/jrockit-R27.2.0-jre1.5.0_10/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
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***************************************************
*  To start WebLogic Server, use a username and   *
*  password assigned to an admin-level user.  For *
*  server administration, use the WebLogic Server *
*  console at http://hostname:port/console        *
***************************************************
starting weblogic with Java version:
java version "1.5.0_10"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_10-b03)
BEA JRockit(R) (build R27.2.0-131-78843-1.5.0_10-20070320-1511-linux-ia32, compiled mode)
Starting WLS with line:
/home/sdyade/jrockit-R27.2.0-jre1.5.0_10/bin/java    -Xms256m -Xmx512m -verbose:gc    -da -Dplatform.home=/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92 -Dwls.home=/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server -Dwli.home=/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/integration  -Dweblogic.management.discover=true  -Dwlw.iterativeDev=false -Dwlw.testConsole=false -Dwlw.logErrorsToConsole= -Dweblogic.ext.dirs=/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/patch_weblogic923/profiles/default/sysext_manifest_classpath -Dweblogic.Name=prodisw_admin_222 -Djava.security.policy=/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server/lib/weblogic.policy   weblogic.Server
[INFO ][memory ] GC mode: Garbage collection optimized for throughput, initial strategy: Generational Parallel Mark & Sweep
[INFO ][memory ] heap size: 262144K, maximal heap size: 524288K, nursery size: 131072K
[INFO ][memory ] <s>-<end>: GC <before>K-><after>K (<heap>K), <pause> ms
[INFO ][memory ] <s/start> - start time of collection (seconds since jvm start)
[INFO ][memory ] <end>     - end time of collection (seconds since jvm start)
[INFO ][memory ] <before>  - memory used by objects before collection (KB)
[INFO ][memory ] <after>   - memory used by objects after collection (KB)
[INFO ][memory ] <heap>    - size of heap after collection (KB)
[INFO ][memory ] <pause>   - total pause time during collection (milliseconds)
<Apr 25, 2011 3:04:11 PM EDT> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000395> <Following extensions directory contents added to the end of the classpath:
/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/p13n/p13n-schemas.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/p13n/p13n_common.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/p13n/p13n_system.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/wlp/netuix_common.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/wlp/netuix_schemas.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/wlp/netuix_system.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/wlp/wsrp-common.jar>
<Apr 25, 2011 3:04:11 PM EDT> <Info> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000377> <Starting WebLogic Server with BEA JRockit(R) Version R27.2.0-131-78843-1.5.0_10-20070320-1511-linux-ia32 from BEA Systems, Inc.>
<Apr 25, 2011 3:04:13 PM EDT> <Info> <Management> <BEA-141107> <Version: WebLogic Server 9.2 MP3  Mon Mar 10 08:28:41 EDT 2008 1096261 >
<Apr 25, 2011 3:04:14 PM EDT> <Info> <Security> <BEA-090065> <Getting boot identity from user.>
Enter username to boot WebLogic server:weblogic
<Apr 25, 2011 3:04:19 PM EDT> <Error> <Security> <BEA-090782> <Server is Running in Production Mode and Native Library(terminalio) to read the password securely from commandline is not found.>
<Apr 25, 2011 3:04:19 PM EDT> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000388> <JVM called WLS shutdown hook. The server will force shutdown now>
<Apr 25, 2011 3:04:19 PM EDT> <Alert> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000396> <Server shutdown has been requested by <WLS Kernel>>
<Apr 25, 2011 3:04:19 PM EDT> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to FORCE_SHUTTING_DOWN>

Cause :

<Apr 25, 2011 3:04:19 PM EDT> <Error> <Security> <BEA-090782> <Server is Running in Production Mode and Native Library(terminalio) to read the password securely from commandline is not found.>

It looks like we are missing the library "terminalio' which looks for the password from command line, so to get this working we have work around as to use -Dweblogic.management.allowPasswordEcho=true in startup scripts for the servers, which will take the clear text passwords instead of blanks as seen while you input the passwords as below.


[sdyade@sllinux4 bin]$ ./startWebLogic.sh
.
.
JAVA Memory arguments: -Xms256m -Xmx512m -verbose:gc
.
WLS Start Mode=Production
.
CLASSPATH=:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/patch_weblogic923/profiles/default/sys_manifest_classpath/weblogic_patch.jar:/home/sdyade/jrockit-R27.2.0-jre1.5.0_10/lib/tools.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server/lib/weblogic_sp.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server/lib/weblogic.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server/lib/webservices.jar::/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/common/eval/pointbase/lib/pbclient51.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server/lib/xqrl.jar::
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PATH=/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server/bin:/home/sdyade/jrockit-R27.2.0-jre1.5.0_10/jre/bin:/home/sdyade/jrockit-R27.2.0-jre1.5.0_10/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
.
***************************************************
*  To start WebLogic Server, use a username and   *
*  password assigned to an admin-level user.  For *
*  server administration, use the WebLogic Server *
*  console at http://hostname:port/console        *
***************************************************
starting weblogic with Java version:
java version "1.5.0_10"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_10-b03)
BEA JRockit(R) (build R27.2.0-131-78843-1.5.0_10-20070320-1511-linux-ia32, compiled mode)
Starting WLS with line:
/home/sdyade/jrockit-R27.2.0-jre1.5.0_10/bin/java    -Xms256m -Xmx512m -verbose:gc    -da -Dplatform.home=/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92 -Dwls.home=/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server -Dwli.home=/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/integration  -Dweblogic.management.discover=true  -Dwlw.iterativeDev=false -Dwlw.testConsole=false -Dwlw.logErrorsToConsole= -Dweblogic.ext.dirs=/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/patch_weblogic923/profiles/default/sysext_manifest_classpath -Dweblogic.Name=prodisw_admin_222 -Djava.security.policy=/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/server/lib/weblogic.policy -Dweblogic.management.allowPasswordEcho=true  weblogic.Server
[INFO ][memory ] GC mode: Garbage collection optimized for throughput, initial strategy: Generational Parallel Mark & Sweep
[INFO ][memory ] heap size: 262144K, maximal heap size: 524288K, nursery size: 131072K
[INFO ][memory ] <s>-<end>: GC <before>K-><after>K (<heap>K), <pause> ms
[INFO ][memory ] <s/start> - start time of collection (seconds since jvm start)
[INFO ][memory ] <end>     - end time of collection (seconds since jvm start)
[INFO ][memory ] <before>  - memory used by objects before collection (KB)
[INFO ][memory ] <after>   - memory used by objects after collection (KB)
[INFO ][memory ] <heap>    - size of heap after collection (KB)
[INFO ][memory ] <pause>   - total pause time during collection (milliseconds)
<Apr 25, 2011 3:08:38 PM EDT> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000395> <Following extensions directory contents added to the end of the classpath:
/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/p13n/p13n-schemas.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/p13n/p13n_common.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/p13n/p13n_system.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/wlp/netuix_common.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/wlp/netuix_schemas.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/wlp/netuix_system.jar:/home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/weblogic92/platform/lib/wlp/wsrp-common.jar>
<Apr 25, 2011 3:08:39 PM EDT> <Info> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000377> <Starting WebLogic Server with BEA JRockit(R) Version R27.2.0-131-78843-1.5.0_10-20070320-1511-linux-ia32 from BEA Systems, Inc.>
<Apr 25, 2011 3:08:40 PM EDT> <Info> <Management> <BEA-141107> <Version: WebLogic Server 9.2 MP3  Mon Mar 10 08:28:41 EDT 2008 1096261 >
<Apr 25, 2011 3:08:42 PM EDT> <Info> <Security> <BEA-090065> <Getting boot identity from user.>
Enter username to boot WebLogic server:weblogic
Enter password to boot WebLogic server:lotus1234
<Apr 25, 2011 3:08:56 PM EDT> <Info> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000215> <Loaded License : /home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/license.bea>
<Apr 25, 2011 3:08:56 PM EDT> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to STARTING>
<Apr 25, 2011 3:08:56 PM EDT> <Info> <WorkManager> <BEA-002900> <Initializing self-tuning thread pool>
<Apr 25, 2011 3:08:57 PM EDT> <Notice> <Log Management> <BEA-170019> <The server log file /home/sdyade/oracle/bea923/user_projects/domains/PRODISW/servers/prodisw_admin_222/logs/prodisw_admin_222.log is opened. All server side log events will be written to this file.>

Please let me know if this helps.

Thanks
~ Shailesh