The usual workflow for running Alitheia Core is the following:
When things go wrong (and with Alitheia Core being a research tool things can often go wrong), all the user has to do is restart the metadata or plug-in synchronisation options. Alitheia Core usualy isolates failures and tries hard to maintain metadata consistency. If there is an error, you could do the following:
$ALITHEIA/runner/logs
. Errors and debugging information are recorded in at least the following logs: alitheia.log
General debugging info and job results (or errors)updater.log
Log specific to the updater service functions. Tons of debugging messages.webadmin.log
Log specific to the Web Administration consolehibernate.log
Log specific to the Hibernate ORM system. Check here for exceptions when creating new plug-ins that use custom tables.