DB Error on Startup

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mgriffith

I am running Activiti 5.5, and I'm getting this error on startup:

SEVERE: Exception while initializing process engine :no activiti tables in db.  set <property name="databaseSchemaUpdate" to value="true" or value="create-drop" (use create-drop for testing only!) in bean processEngineConfiguration in activiti.cfg.xml for automatic schema creation
org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: no activiti tables in db.  set <property name="databaseSchemaUpdate" to value="true" or value="create-drop" (use create-drop for testing only!) in bean processEngineConfiguration in activiti.cfg.xml for automatic schema creation
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I've tried setting the databaseSchemaUpdate of my process engine configuration to true, create-drop and to false (currently set to false) but it seems I always get this problem.

<property name="databaseSchemaUpdate" value="false" />
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What can I do to fix this?

Any/all replies appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

micha1

Hi,

I think the error message is clear, the activiti engine does not found all the necessary tables. Ensure that your configuration with <property name="databaseSchemaUpdate" value="true" /> is definitely used by your startup code.