[Bug] mac install has unresolved broken paths

[schaefer01]

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Version

IoTDB version 2.0.4
mac version 15.4 (24E248)

Describe the bug and provide the minimal reproduce step

at the step of starting the cli

$ ./scripts/sbin/start-cli.sh -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6667 -u root -pw root
Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.iotdb.cli.Cli
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.iotdb.cli.Cli

I poked around, found the path to the classes directory and forced the path with an -Xdiag
and got a different error:

$ java -Xdiag -cp /Users/rps/projects/NextRadar/IoTDB/iotdb/iotdb-client/cli/target/classes org.apache.iotdb.cli.Cli
Error: Unable to initialize main class org.apache.iotdb.cli.Cli
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/iotdb/rpc/IoTDBConnectionException
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/iotdb/rpc/IoTDBConnectionException
at java.base/java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.base/java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:3035)
at java.base/java.lang.Class.getMethodsRecursive(Class.java:3177)
at java.base/java.lang.Class.findMethod(Class.java:2465)
at java.base/java.lang.System$1.findMethod(System.java:1980)
at java.base/jdk.internal.misc.MethodFinder.findMainMethod(MethodFinder.java:86)
at java.base/sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.validateMainMethod(LauncherHelper.java:930)
at java.base/sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:768)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.iotdb.rpc.IoTDBConnectionException
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:580)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:490)
... 8 more

So, I'm thinking the path needs to be changed in the startup script

I tried various iterations of setting $IOTDB_HOME without success

What did you expect to see?

I expected to see the cli start up

What did you see instead?

Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.iotdb.cli.Cli
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.iotdb.cli.Cli

Anything else?

I duplicated the install on an ubuntu box without errors, the cli started

Are you willing to submit a PR?

• I'm willing to submit a PR!

[github-actions]

Hi, this is your first issue in IoTDB project. Thanks for your report. Welcome to join the community!

[schaefer01]

One more thing, the paths to the .sh files are different on the mac than on linux but the instructions and the IOTDB_HOME path don't reflect taht.

[HTHou]

Seems that you are running the script in source code https://github.com/apache/iotdb/tree/master/scripts directly... These scripts should be used in binary package only.

If you want to build a binary package from the source, you should run mvn clean package -pl distribution -am -DskipTests, then you can get the packages in distribution/target directory.

Or you can download a released version from https://iotdb.apache.org/Download/.

[schaefer01]

Hi, HTHou,

This is all clear now but wasn't yesterday when I was in the middle of it.

I downloaded the binaries first but couldn't find instructions on how to start the binaries so -

I then downloaded the source but couldn't run the source because of unresolved broken python package
dependencies when trying to build prerequisites.

So I tried to start from the source directory even though the source wasn't built. (I wasn't thinking logically)

So, long story short, this morning I followed your directions with the binaries and its all good.

thank you.
bob s.