Activemq will not start on my Ubuntu VM - activemq

Question

I'm trying to run activemq on my ubuntu virtual machine but have constantly been running into issues getting it to start up. I've tried downloading the binary and source with no luck. Currently I have downloaded the source, run "mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true" and mvn reported successful installation. I then hunted around in my .m2 folder found apache-activemq-5.5.1-bin.tar.gz and extracted it to my home/USERNAME dir and attempted to run "bash bin/activemq start" only to receive the following error.
INFO: Loading '/etc/default/activemq'
INFO: Using java '/usr/bin/java'
INFO: Starting - inspect logfiles specified in logging.properties
and log4j.properties
to get details
bin/activemq: line 370: /usr/bin/java -Xms256M -Xmx256M -Dorg.apache.activemq.UseDedicatedTaskRunner=true
-Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
-Dactivemq.classpath="/home/jacob/activeMq1/apache-activemq-5.5.1/conf;"
-Dactivemq.home="/home/jacob/activeMq1/apache-activemq-5.5.1"
-Dactivemq.base="/home/jacob/activeMq1/apache-activemq-5.5.1"
-jar "/home/jacob/activeMq1/apache-activemq-5.5.1/bin/run.jar" start >/dev/null 2>&1 &
RET="$?"; APID="$!";
echo $APID > /home/jacob/activeMq1/apache-activemq-5.5.1/data/activemq.pid;
echo "INFO: pidfile created : '/home/jacob/activeMq1/apache-activemq-5.5.1/data/activemq.pid' (pid '$APID')";
exit $RET: No such file or directory
Has any one run into this type of error before?

Answer 1

Looks like I'm answering one of my questions again, but maybe this will help someone in the future.
steps.
I ended up getting activemq to work by creating a configuration file via running the command "./bin/activemq setup newConfig" (exclude the quotes)
I then replaced the current config file "activemq" which was located at etc/default/. (I made a backup of the original activemq file before overwriting it with newConfig).
Run "./bin/activemq start" which will create a PID file.
After the file is created re-run "./bin/activemq start" to finally start up the broker.
You can then test the install by navigating to "http://localhost:8161/admin/" or by doing a "netstat -an | grep 61616" if you kept the default ports etc.

Answer 2

I install activemq 5.13 on Debian, download and unzip in /opt, then I go to /opt/apache-activemq-5.13.1/run "./bin/activemq start", then appear this error:
xx#debian:/opt/apache-activemq-5.13.1$ ./bin/activemq start
INFO: Loading '/etc/default/activemq'
INFO: Using java '/usr/bin/java'
INFO: Starting - inspect logfiles specified in logging.properties and log4j.properties to get details
./bin/activemq: 330: ./bin/activemq: "/usr/bin/java" -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -Djava.security.auth.login.config=/opt/apache-activemq-5.13.1//conf/login.config -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.io.tmpdir="/opt/apache-activemq-5.13.1//tmp" -Dactivemq.classpath="/opt/apache-activemq-5.13.1//conf:/opt/apache-activemq-5.13.1//../lib/:" -Dactivemq.home="/opt/apache-activemq-5.13.1/" -Dactivemq.base="/opt/apache-activemq-5.13.1/" -Dactivemq.conf="/opt/apache-activemq-5.13.1//conf" -Dactivemq.data="/opt/apache-activemq-5.13.1//data" -jar "/opt/apache-activemq-5.13.1//bin/activemq.jar" start >/dev/null 2>&1 &
RET="$?"; APID="$!";
echo $APID > /opt/apache-activemq-5.13.1//data/activemq.pid;
echo "INFO: pidfile created : '/opt/apache-activemq-5.13.1//data/activemq.pid' (pid '$APID')";exit $RET: not found
What I did is to check the Debian version using "uname -a":
Linux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3 (2016-01-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux
I found my debian is 64 bit system. so I run
./bin/linux-x86-64/activemq start
It shows:
Starting ActiveMQ Broker...
Then I can access the site:http://localhost:8161/admin/ with username "admin" and password "admin"

Answer 3

with Ubuntu 14.04, I had to create a link in /etc/activemq/instances-enabled
sudo ln -s ../instances-available/main/
similar to apache2 setup
then started the server with /etc/init.d/activemq start

Answer 4

sudo is necessary.
bin$ sudo ./activemq start
bin$ sudo ./activemq status
INFO: Loading '/opt/runtime/apache-activemq-5.11.1/bin/env' INFO: Using java '/usr/bin/java' ActiveMQ is running (pid '29887')