Remote Administration (rmiregistry) causes App/Prcs boots to hang on Windows

[iversond]

If Remote Administration is enabled on an app or prcs domain, psadmin will spawn an rmiregistry window that prevents psadmin from exiting the subshell. If running psa on the server, you will see a new cmd window that is running rmiregistry. If you disable Remote Administration, the psa start app and psa start prcs commands run to success.

[iversond]

Dropping this here for future research: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8097354/how-do-i-capture-the-output-into-a-variable-from-an-external-process-in-powershe

[iversond]

Currently not supporting this. To get around the issue, disable Remote Administration in your psappsrv.cfg and psprcs.cfg files.

[kbens]

The issue appears to be ruby trying to capture STDOUT and assigning it to a variable. We really don't need the STDOUT in a variable for psadmin start commands. So, adding an additional argument to do_cmd, which defaults to output = true. Goal would be to update the do_cmd call from the do_start methods and pass in false for output argument. When that is done, out = #{cmd} becomes system("#{cmd}"). Ruby still prints the STDOUT and waits for it to finish, but now it doesn't hang on the end, waiting for child processes like rmiregistry to finish.

# from do_start method
 do_cmd(start_app_cmd,true,true,false)

# from do_cmd method
when "windows"
        case powershell
        when true
            case "#{PS_PSA_DEBUG}"
            when "true"
                p "Command: powershell -NoProfile -Command \"#{cmd}\""
            end
            if output
				out = `powershell -NoProfile -Command "#{cmd}"`						
			else
				system("powershell -NoProfile -Command \"#{cmd}\"")
			end