Could not initialize class com.tridion.storage.StorageManagerFactory

Question

I am implementing DD4T MVC3 with Tridion 2011. I have implemented it and it worked properly till last Friday. I am able to get the page model and present it using Razor view.

But today after the weekend when I tried to run the same application I am getting the below error (starting after two lines).

The Tridion license is going to expire today (30-Apr-2012). Will that be a problem? But the Tridion Content Manager is working properly.

Could not initialize class com.tridion.storage.StorageManagerFactory
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Some configured classpath roots cannot be found

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   ClassPath           : C:\MyProjects\DD4TMVC\FirstDD4TMVCApplication\FirstDD4TMVCApplication\bin\bin

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Some Java classes or interfaces could not be found or loaded

The most typical reasons for this problem are:

- you forgot to configure a classpath
- a jarfile, zipfile, or directory is missing from your
  classpath
- you have a typo in one of your classpath entries
- a jarfile required by one of your classes is missing from
  your classpath
- a jarfile on your classpath is out-of-date and does not
  contain some new classes

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 com.tridion.web.asp.ASPAdmin
 com.tridion.web.jsp.tag.DynamicComponentLinkHandler
 com.tridion.web.jsp.tag.IncrementKeyHandler
 com.tridion.webservices.odata.ODataPublicationMappingFilter
 com.tridion.web.jsp.tag.ConditionHandler
 com.tridion.web.jsp.ResponseWrapper
 com.tridion.web.jsp.tag.ConditionsHandler
 com.tridion.linking.Linking
 com.tridion.storage.StorageManagerFactory
 com.tridion.web.jsp.tag.ComponentLinkHandler
 com.tridion.web.jsp.tag.ComponentPresentationHandler
 com.tridion.web.Admin
 com.tridion.webservices.odata.ODataContextListener
 com.tridion.web.jsp.JSPProcessor
 com.tridion.web.jsp.tag.TargetGroupHandler
 com.tridion.linking.ASPLinking
 com.tridion.web.jsp.tag.BinaryLinkHandler
 com.tridion.ambientdata.web.AmbientDataServletFilter
 com.tridion.webservices.security.authentication.OAuth2AccessTokenHandler
 com.tridion.web.jsp.JSPXSLTProcessor
 com.tridion.web.jsp.tag.PageLinkHandler
 com.tridion.web.jsp.tag.TaxonomyHandler
 com.tridion.web.jsp.tag.LinkBaseHandler

Please help

Answer 1

I suggest you get a new SDL Tridion Content Delivery license first, and if you still have the problem get back to us. That seems like the a likely culprit.

Answer 2

If it's not the license as mentioned above, make sure that all of settings in the storage configuration file cd_storage_conf.xml are valid. I saw this same error when was missing database information.

Answer 3

We resolved the similar issue by replacing license file only.

Thanks, Vikas Kumar

Answer 4

IF changing the license doesn't help, then check the logs for ClassDefNotFound error or ClassNotFoundException exception. The Core log or Tridion event log are very good candidates to contain these errors.

Answer 5

Indeed an expired cd_licenses will cause this issue.

What i saw today is this:

ERROR - <JavaException  <Type>java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError</Type<Message>     <![CDATA[Could not initialize class com.tridion.storage.StorageManagerFactory
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Some configured classpath roots cannot be found
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So Perfect solution is to change cd_licenses file with nice validity.