Problem connecting to the internet with GGTS 3.1.0.RELEASE

[manuelcr]

Hi all,

I'm having the same problem with Windows 7 64 bits.

The STS loads the proxy configuration, but it doesn't keep user and password. So, i can't work with STS behind the proxy in the corporative network.

[Kris De Volder]

Hi Warpcore,

I'm not sure how to help you further. Right now I am running a GGTS 3.2.0.M2 instance on a 32 bit Ubuntu 10.04. As far as I can tell the Secure Storage works fine for me, but since I'm not behind a proxy I don't know if *that* would work for me.

My sense from going back through all the posts in this thread is that Secure Storage itself is actually working ok for you (with the 'UI provider' enabled).

I don't seem to have any other options myself than to use the 'UI provider'. I think this means you have to enter the master password once per Eclipse/GGTS session.

I don't think that is the problem. Rather it seems maybe some wires are getting crossed with the Eclipse network connector libraries actually using the info from secure storage to configure your proxies.

I fear sending you on another wild-goose chase, but... have you tried a 'plain' instance of Eclipse. It would be interesting to determine if a plain Eclipse also has similar issues when you configure proxies the same way.

If it does then I guess we are most likely dealing with some Eclipse bug. If not, then something in GGTS is messing this up.

Thanks for your patience and sorry for all the trouble you are having with this.

Kris

[Warpcore]

Kris,

thanks for getting back. I tried installing the Juno Standard SDK (4.2.1). Then I configured my network connection both with or without secure storage. The behavior is pretty much the same. Here are the last lines of the error log when trying to search for updates:

!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.transport.ecf 4 1002 2013-02-05 10:25:03.251
!MESSAGE Unable to read repository at http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno/201209280900/content.jar.
!STACK 0
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
        at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:155)
        at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:229)
        at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(BufferedInputStream.java:267)
        at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:324)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(HttpClient.java:658)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:607)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(HttpClient.java:734)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:607)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1140)
        at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.retrieve.UrlConnectionRetrieveFileTransfer.getDecompressedStream(UrlConnectionRetrieveFileTransfer.java:542)
        at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.retrieve.UrlConnectionRetrieveFileTransfer.openStreams(UrlConnectionRetrieveFileTransfer.java:312)
        at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.retrieve.AbstractRetrieveFileTransfer.sendRetrieveRequest(AbstractRetrieveFileTransfer.java:879)
        at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.retrieve.AbstractRetrieveFileTransfer.sendRetrieveRequest(AbstractRetrieveFileTransfer.java:570)
        at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.retrieve.MultiProtocolRetrieveAdapter.sendRetrieveRequest(MultiProtocolRetrieveAdapter.java:106)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.transport.ecf.FileReader.sendRetrieveRequest(FileReader.java:422)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.transport.ecf.FileReader.readInto(FileReader.java:355)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.transport.ecf.RepositoryTransport.download(RepositoryTransport.java:101)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.transport.ecf.RepositoryTransport.download(RepositoryTransport.java:156)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.CacheManager.updateCache(CacheManager.java:345)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.CacheManager.createCache(CacheManager.java:208)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.getLocalFile(SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.java:66)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.load(SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.java:88)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.factoryLoad(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:57)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:758)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:651)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:96)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:92)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.CompositeMetadataRepository.addChild(CompositeMetadataRepository.java:165)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.CompositeMetadataRepository.<init>(CompositeMetadataRepository.java:105)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.CompositeMetadataRepositoryFactory.load(CompositeMetadataRepositoryFactory.java:122)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.factoryLoad(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:57)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:758)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:651)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:96)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:92)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine.ProvisioningContext.loadMetadataRepository(ProvisioningContext.java:211)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine.ProvisioningContext.getLoadedMetadataRepositories(ProvisioningContext.java:194)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine.ProvisioningContext.getMetadata(ProvisioningContext.java:275)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.director.SimplePlanner.updatesFor(SimplePlanner.java:777)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations.UpdateOperation.updatesFor(UpdateOperation.java:143)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations.UpdateOperation.computeProfileChangeRequest(UpdateOperation.java:180)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations.UpdateOperation$1.run(UpdateOperation.java:324)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.operations.SearchForUpdatesResolutionJob.runModal(SearchForUpdatesResolutionJob.java:37)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations.ProfileChangeOperation.resolveModal(ProfileChangeOperation.java:115)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.ui.sdk.UpdateHandler.doPostLoadBackgroundWork(UpdateHandler.java:49)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.ui.sdk.PreloadingRepositoryHandler$2.runModal(PreloadingRepositoryHandler.java:87)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations.ProvisioningJob.run(ProvisioningJob.java:177)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53)
!SESSION 2013-02-05 10:25:23.054 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=M20120914-1800
java.fullversion=J2RE 1.5.0 IBM J9 2.3 Linux amd64-64 j9vmxa6423-20111019 (JIT enabled)
J9VM - 20111017_92807_LHdSMr
JIT  - 20110916_20782_r8
GC   - 20110524_AA
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=de_DE
Command-line arguments:  -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.net 1 0 2013-02-05 10:25:33.111
!MESSAGE System property http.proxyHost is not set but should be webproxy.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.net 1 0 2013-02-05 10:25:33.113
!MESSAGE System property http.proxyPort is not set but should be 8080.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.net 1 0 2013-02-05 10:25:33.115
!MESSAGE System property https.proxyHost is not set but should be webproxy.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.net 1 0 2013-02-05 10:25:33.115
!MESSAGE System property https.proxyPort is not set but should be 8080.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.net 1 0 2013-02-05 10:25:33.119
!MESSAGE System property https.proxyHost is not set but should be webproxy.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.net 1 0 2013-02-05 10:25:33.119
!MESSAGE System property https.proxyPort is not set but should be 8080.

In addition I get the following messages on the shell where eclipse was started:

05.02.2013 10:20:01 org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeProcessor selectAuthScheme
INFO: ntlm authentication scheme selected
05.02.2013 10:20:01 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector processProxyAuthChallenge
INFO: No credentials available for NTLM <any realm>@webproxy:8080
05.02.2013 10:20:39 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpConnection releaseConnection
WARNUNG: HttpConnectionManager is null.  Connection cannot be released.
05.02.2013 10:22:02 org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeProcessor selectAuthScheme
INFO: ntlm authentication scheme selected
05.02.2013 10:22:02 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector processProxyAuthChallenge
INFO: No credentials available for NTLM <any realm>@webproxy:8080
05.02.2013 10:22:43 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpConnection releaseConnection
WARNUNG: HttpConnectionManager is null.  Connection cannot be released.
05.02.2013 10:23:40 org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeProcessor selectAuthScheme
INFO: ntlm authentication scheme selected
05.02.2013 10:23:40 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector processProxyAuthChallenge
INFO: No credentials available for NTLM <any realm>@webproxy:8080
05.02.2013 10:25:19 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpConnection releaseConnection
WARNUNG: HttpConnectionManager is null.  Connection cannot be released.

Does this help ?

I tried the STS 2.9.2 network connection and it still works(!)

Cheers,
Robert

[Martin Lippert]

Hey Robert!

I am kind of in the same position as Kris, not experiencing the problem myself. But it is quite strange that it worked with STS 2.9.2, but doesn't work anymore with GGTS 3.1.0 or the latest Eclipse installation. To further identify the issue, we could try additional cases:

#1: does this work again with Eclipse Juno SDK 4.2.2 (the latest RC builds)?
#2: you could use GGTS 3.1.0.RELEASE on top of Eclipse 3.7 from here:
http://download.springsource.com/rel...nux-gtk.tar.gz
http://download.springsource.com/rel...-x86_64.tar.gz

That GGTS build is using the same Eclipse version as 2.9.2. We don't extensively test those older builds, therefore they aren't promoted anymore as preferred downloads, but in your case it would make sense to give it a try, I think.

HTH,
Martin

[Warpcore]

Hi Martin,

option #2 did not work for me. Still having the same problems. I could not find a download for option #1 but instead I downloaded eclipse SDK 4.3M4: No success. But what I got is the following output on my shell when trying to search for updates:

06.02.2013 11:24:08 org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeProcessor selectAuthScheme
INFO: ntlm authentication scheme selected
06.02.2013 11:24:08 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector processProxyAuthChallenge
INFO: No credentials available for NTLM <any realm>@webproxy:8080

Could this point to something more specific ?


Cheers,
Robert

[Kris De Volder]

Hi Robert,

All this proxy stuff is a bit foreign to me... and it is indeed worrysome that option #2 doesn't work for you where STS 2.9.2 on top of Eclipse 3.7 did work. That suggests there's an issue with GGTS of some sort that didn't exist before. If we can figure out what the problem is we should and try to fix it...

But... as the root problem still stands undiagnosed.

I did a bit of googling based on that NTLM error message and found this:

http://www.thinkplexx.com/learn/arti...ion-from-linux
http://cntlm.sourceforge.net/

Perhaps setting up cntlm to take care of the proxying outside of GGTS may work.
Basically it looks like you can use 'cntlm' to create a more standard kind of proxy on localhost to bypass the Corporate ntlm Microsoft proxy authentication.

Although that doesn't really solve the underlying issue in GGTS, maybe if it work, it might be a way for you to at least get working again.

Kris

[Warpcore]

Hi Kris,

sorry for getting back so late. I was busy with other things, but I have good news. IT WORKS

Using cntlm as tunnel for our NTLM Proxy did the trick. I am now able to connect to the repositories and see the RSS feeds. So it really seems to be a bug in GGTS because my older version of STS is still able to connect to our proxy directly.

Anyways, thanks for pointing me to the right direction.

I will add this information to the Grails JIRA database, just in case someone else is having the same issues.


Cheers,
Robert

[Kris De Volder]

I'm glad you got things working.

> I will add this information to the Grails JIRA database ...

Thanks Robert, that would be great!

Kris