Apache Karaf dependency on network

Question

I am using Apache Karaf 2.3.0, and deploying my bundles as Activator bundles. At some place ver rarely I face a problem where my karaf does not start up the bundles. But I see that when i start the container on such boxes with the network(on my Linux box) brought down, it starts up. I am just a bit confused as to what is the dependency that Karaf is having on the network, that is stopping it from resoving all the bundles. From my application specific bundle code, I am not specifically using the network.

What is the dependency of Karaf on the network?

Answer 1

Karaf deploys bundles as maven artifacts, sometimes it will try to figure out to use the latest from the repository. I think there has been a fix for this behavior already. You should use the latest 2.3.9 instead of 2.3.0. There has been a lot of improvements regarding this topic.

EDIT - Question Answers:

1) Karaf sometimes tries to load the artifacts from the local maven repository and after that from the system folder. This is a regression that has been fixed.
2) Yes this issue has been fixed on all current versions.
3) I would always go for version 3.0.2 since this is in line with future enhancements. 2.4. was introduced to have OSGi 5 capabilities with supporting the "Older" feature set, especially the command syntax which has been changed with 3.0
4) yes and has been made default with 3.0.x and 2.3.x

Answer 2

Got it running. It was indeed maven i believe. resolv.conf file on my linux box had ip entries in it which probably made maven to look outside, but was not getting a proper response. Removed the mvn urls from the /etc/ file and restarted the karaf and it started.

But i am yet confused as to how this works on the other boxes... thanks Achim