1SmartSolution Blog:: Is it ME or ColdFusion 9.0 Update 1?

Posted At : Jul 14, 2010 18:30 PM | Posted By : Ed Tabara
Related Categories: ColdFusion

No idea if it happened only to me, but installation for ColdFusion 9 Update 1 was the worst from any ColdFusion related installations i did in over 10 years.
First, right after i installed it, i started to get "The DataSource service is not available" errors when trying to load ColdFusion Admin and if trying to open one of the sites, was getting errors about related Datasource not existing. I tried starting/stopping/restarting services. I tried to check the size of "neo-*.xml" files. I tried to restart the server itself. I tried anything that came in my mind at that moment, but NOTHING helped.
Then i tried to reinstall this Update. (yes, without to taking down the previous try). Weird, but that error went away. And i was able to get into ColdFusion Administrator without problems. But started to get other errors when trying to load a site on the server: "The tag handler query does not have a setter for the attribute ormOptions specified in the Tag Library Descriptor" and it was pointing to lines where CreateObject being used first time. And again, i wasn't able to find a solution to it.
Then i found this link and used the process described there as "Uninstall Update 1 from a ColdFusion 9 server configuration on Windows". And yes, did try to restart services AND the server itself, but again without any success.
So, after pulling off my hair for some time, i just uninstalled ColdFusion and installed it from scratch but this time without the Update.

It was far from being my first ColdFusion related installation, but it was indeed a total nightmare.

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Its not you. I had issues as well. I too had to uninstall CF and reinstall w/o the update. Win 2008 64 bit ColdFusion Standard.

# Posted By Sean Coyne | Jul 14, 2010 18:50 PM

Ah! I'm glad it's not me :)
But is sad indeed to see this thing happening with my favorite product.

# Posted By Ed | Jul 14, 2010 19:05 PM

I didn't face this issue while installing. Did you stop all ColdFusion services before installing the update? And on what configuration are you trying to install the update (Server, Multi Server, J2EE)?

# Posted By Sagar Ganatra | Jul 14, 2010 19:29 PM

Its not you. I had the same issue with "The DataSource service is not available". I'm reinstalling 9.0 now.

# Posted By alex | Jul 14, 2010 19:39 PM

@Sagar: Yes, at first install i did stop all services as the application asked me to. At second install i did not. (wanted to try both ways)

# Posted By Ed | Jul 14, 2010 20:17 PM

I had issues as well installing on 64-bit Ubuntu. After the install, the ORM Event Handler would not get processed during db transactions. I submitted a bug ticket with Adobe and had to completely reinstall everything as well.

# Posted By Joe Brislin | Jul 14, 2010 21:03 PM

Ouch! Glad I waited. I hope they come up with a fix. I got bit with the last update to version 8. They had never tested it with the latest hot fix for that version and everything went to hell when I installed the update to 8.
Not a good sign. I hope they identify the issue. This is a horrible thing to have happen when you need to upgrade a production machine.

# Posted By Steve Manke | Jul 14, 2010 22:15 PM

This is the first I have heard of any problems. I have upgrade three machines so far without issue. I have not heard anything on any of the numerous mailing lists I am on either.
I suspect, just like any upgrade, a few users will have issues because of some anomaly or another. It happens.

# Posted By Jason Dean | Jul 14, 2010 23:09 PM

Just a sort of inverse "me too" here. I've done half a dozen upgrades (multi-server & individual EAR files) and *haven't* had a problem.
--
Adam

# Posted By Adam Cameron | Jul 15, 2010 1:07 AM

I had the same issue but checked out the install log in the coldfusion directory. There I saw it have problems with a dll in the windows/system32 so I used process explorer to find out what was holding it. It turned out the be the snmp service. After stoppping that and reapplying the update things worked well.

# Posted By Tim Kuhlman | Jul 15, 2010 1:10 AM

I received Branch target offset too large for short error after I updated to 9.0.1. Moved my ORM components to a directory by itself and the update worked somewhat. Now I get ORM mapping errors.

# Posted By Dale Severin | Jul 15, 2010 17:09 PM

Same issue here on Mac OSX.
After the upgrade, when the server starts, there is an error in the cfserver.log : "Unable to initialize SQL service" and I cannot connect to any applications.
Hopefully, I could revert back to ColdFusion 9.0 thanks to TimeMachine...

# Posted By Benoit Hediard | Jul 15, 2010 20:00 PM

I as well had a tough go with this upgrade. I was unable to get it to complete the upgrade without hanging and now that I have followed the instructions to revert back 9.0 I can no longer reach my admin. I get a 404 error when trying to reach the admin and I'm also getting the following error quite often: The tag handler query does not have a setter for the attribute ormOptions specified in the Tag Library Descriptor.

# Posted By John Sieber | Jul 26, 2010 23:19 PM

@John,
yeah.. i was getting that error too. It's really lame there to be some many people experiencing problems with this updater.

# Posted By Ed | Jul 26, 2010 23:37 PM

Hi,
I know this is an old threat but is there any resolution?
We are running several 9.01 in production since 8 months with no issues.
Yesterday we changed some code and received this: "The tag handler query does not have a setter for the attribute ormOptions specified in the Tag Library Descriptor." We changed the code back to what it was but still get the same error.
Thanks for any advice

# Posted By Axel | May 05, 2012 15:44 PM

Hey Axel,
unfortunately i don't know about anything resolution to this problem other than just totally reinstall ColdFusion.

# Posted By Ed | May 05, 2012 15:55 PM

Thanks for the answer Ed. I did reinstall CF 9 and indeed it worked for 4 month - now it is popping again. After all I read, I just guess CF9 is a rather buggy release. It works generally fine and fast but there is a structural issue. Most installs had to be multiple times until it finally worked. Plus the bug list is pretty ling. Hope CF 10 is a more robust version.

# Posted By Axel | Jul 30, 2012 22:47 PM

I had a similar error i.e. The tag handler xyz does not have a setter for the attribute abc.
I found that I had more than 1 version of xyz jar in /WEB-INF/cfusion/lib/
I was able to resolve the issue by removing all the old versions and leaving the correct version in this lib folder.

# Posted By Atta | Dec 24, 2012 16:17 PM

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