deploy zimlets not happening

[jason]

I placed gtranslator, collector, and starexpert_save_EN in the /opt/zimbra/zimlets dir, then using zimbra user did the zmzimletctl deploy zimlet.zip name commands.

received back:
INFO: deploying on sevrname.domain.com
INFO: deploy initiated. (check servers mailbox.log for status)

But, never see the 3 zimlets in the adminUI when selecting the zimlets icon.

not sure if it is safe to view mailbox.log for fear of a corruption of the log file.

Any idea of the exact CLI to view the mailbox.log file (safely)?

Any idea why I am not seeing the zimlets now on the admin UI?

[mmorse]

In one terminal while you deploy in another you can simply:
tail -f /opt/zimbra/log/mailbox.log

[jason]

Does any of this make sense?

[zimbra@java zimlets]$ ls
Zimlet_Starxpert_Save_EN.zip com_zimbra_collector.zip com_zimbra_email.zip com_zimbra_local.zip com_zimbra_url.zip
com_zimbra_cert_manager.zip com_zimbra_date.zip com_zimbra_gtranslator.zip com_zimbra_phone.zip com_zimbra_ymemoticons.zip


[zimbra@java zimlets]$ zmzimletctl deploy com_zimbra_collector.zip
[] INFO: Deploying on java.domain.org
[] INFO: Deploy initiated. (check the servers mailbox.log for the status)

LOG OUTPUT:

2008-07-21 18:19:38,026 INFO [btpool0-57] [name=zimbra;ip=10.1.18.1;] soap - DeployZimletRequest
2008-07-21 18:19:38,027 INFO [Thread-27100] [] zimlet - deploy
java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletFile$ZimletRawEntry.<in it>(ZimletFile.java:105)
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletFile.initialize(ZimletF ile.java:171)
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletFile.<init>(ZimletFile. java:146)
at com.zimbra.cs.service.admin.DeployZimlet$DeployThr ead.run(DeployZimlet.java:96)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

[jason]

Mike, I sent this one for a support ticket, as we are in need of these 3 zimlets deployed. If you or anyone else knows more/have seen this, please advise.
The zimlets are in the right directory, and I used the right commands.
-Thanks in advance.

[tdesorbaix]

For StarXpert_save_EN it is normal that it doesn't work.
Simply because this is a zip file, but it is not the zimlet. The zimlet is the com_starxpert_save.zip file inside StarXpert_save_EN.

[rr_khaseeb1]

i faced this problem, You have to change the permission to 777 of the zimbra path then it will work,

when you create a new zip file use the follow these steps:
1) go inside the folder that contains zimlet files
2)zip ../zimlet_name.zip *

[ewilen]

The recommendation in the previous post ought to be stickied, IMO.

Also, deploying zimlets through the admin GUI can generate this error, too. I was getting it last night on a simple zimlet I wrote. However the admin GUI worked fine with a zimlet downloaded from the gallery, as long as the original zipfile was intact. However if I unzipped the zimlet and rezipped it before deploying over the GUI, I'd get the error.‡

I wound up preparing my zimlet (assuming contents are in zimletdirectory) by

cd zimletdirectory
chmod 777 *
zip ../zimletdirectory.zip *
chmod 777 ../zimletdirectory.zip [may not be needed]

Then I used the command line while logged in as the zimbra user.

I'm guessing I could have used the GUI once the permissions on the zimlet contents were set properly.

‡ Further detail: I downloaded the zimlet from the Gallery using Safari 3.2.1 under Mac OS 10.4. Since Safari auto-triggers an unzip, I rezipped the zimlet by selecting the folder and using File:Create Archive. When that didn't work, I re-downloaded the zimlet by ctrl-clicking and "Download linked file", which bypasses the auto-unzip.