Timeout for custome stack

[FenilShah]

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Getting time out issue when I am using my own custom stack.

Reproduction Steps:

1. Creating new project
2. Selecting custom stack
3. Writing my own code as below

`# Here we've used jdk7_tomcat7 base image, however, you can use another one, which is the most appropriate for you: https://github.com/codenvy/dockerfiles
FROM codenvy/jdk7_tomcat7

ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive

RUN sudo apt-get update

Install MYSQL

RUN sudo -E bash -c "apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install mysql-server" &&
sudo sed -i.bak 's/127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0/g' /etc/mysql/my.cnf &&
sudo service mysql restart &&
sudo mysql -uroot -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO 'root'@'%'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

EXPOSE 3306

Create MySQL user and database, and start it

RUN sudo service mysql restart &&
CODENVY_MYSQL_PASSWORD=password &&
CODENVY_MYSQL_DB=test &&
CODENVY_MYSQL_USER=test &&
echo "MySQL password: $CODENVY_MYSQL_PASSWORD" >> /home/user/.mysqlrc &&
echo "MySQL user : $CODENVY_MYSQL_USER" >> /home/user/.mysqlrc &&
echo "MySQL Database:$CODENVY_MYSQL_DB" >> /home/user/.mysqlrc &&
sudo mysql -uroot -e "CREATE USER '$CODENVY_MYSQL_USER'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '"$CODENVY_MYSQL_PASSWORD"'" &&
sudo mysql -uroot -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO '$CODENVY_MYSQL_USER'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '"$CODENVY_MYSQL_PASSWORD"'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" &&
sudo mysql -uroot -e "CREATE DATABASE $CODENVY_MYSQL_DB;"

Start MySQL server and launch Tomcat with CMD command

CMD sudo service mysql start > /dev/null && /home/user/tomcat7/bin/catalina.sh run 2>&1`

Expected behavior:

It is not starting workspace, and I don't know where I can set this "machine_ws_agent_max_start_time_ms" variable.

Observed behavior:

Getting following message "Error when starting workspace
Unable to start workspace. Error when trying to start the workspace: Timeout reached. Codenvy is unable to verify that your workspace's agent has successfully booted. Either the workspace is unreachable, the agent had an error during startup, or your workspace is starting slowly. Admins can configure machine_ws_agent_max_start_time_ms to increase the timeout."

See the attached screenshot also.

Codenvy version: 4
OS and version: [Enter OS name and version here]

Additional information:

Problem only started happening recently, didn't happen in an older version of Codenvy: [Yes / No] Don't know

Problem can be reliably reproduced: [Yes / No - it's random] Yes

[ddementieva]

codenvy/jdk7_tomcat7 image is built for Codenvy Classic version. There is a certified Java image for Codenvy beta, such as https://hub.docker.com/r/codenvy/ubuntu_jdk8/, which you can use as a base for your custom stack.

[FenilShah]

I did replace with ubuntu_jdk8 and It's working great, thank you so much..

One more suggestion I need is everytime I launch workspace, it reinstalls mysql and I lose the database previously I had used. Can you please suggest me what could I do for that?

[ddementieva]

Have you tried to snapshot a workspace?

Switch to the Operations Perspective > Machine > Create Snapshot, stop workspace when snapshot is created and start it again recovering from the snapshot. Check if your database is there.

[FenilShah]

I am using web version. Can you please suggest me where is Perspective here in attached screen shot?

[ddementieva]

@FenilShah You can find Switch to the Operations Perspective button in the upper right corner of the toolbar.

The Operations Perspective will look something like

[FenilShah]

@ddementieva Thanks for the quick response.

I am able to do that. That's seems great, it is creating image from last snapshot. But here I do have some concerns:

1. Every time I start workspace, it asks 'Do you want to recover the workspace from snapshot?".
2. Everytime if I change anything in database I need to create a snapshot before leaving the workspace. If I forgot to create snapshot, I will loose my data and it is time consuming even. :(
3. Also it is getting timeout after 10 mins, again if I forget to create snapshot. I will loose my data.

This feature is great. But I don't think this is useful to persist database. Can you please correct me if I am wrong? Or any other option?

[ddementieva]

@FenilShah auto snapshotting is disabled on beta.codenvy.com...so making snapshots manually is the only option at this moment.

[TylerJewell]

@FenilShah - since beta.* is free - we limit workspaces to 3GB RAM and do not provide auto-snapshotting. You can get auto-snapshotting with Eclipse Che and Codenvy Enterprise, where you install it and run it yourself. Also, the 10 minute idle timeout is a way to keep our infrastructure costs contained as most people start workspaces and just let them run.

[FenilShah]

@ddementieva @TylerJewell Ok. I am very excited to work with this. Thank you so much for your quick support.