topic Problem in migrating server in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-in-migrating-server/m-p/274058#M227188 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm migrating Alfresco Community 4.0.b from Server 1 to Server 2. Both are Ubuntu Server 10.04. I have followed the instruction from wiki, </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/System_Migration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/System_Migration</A><SPAN>, and I used binary installation file to install Alfresco on both server.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Database back up and restore code:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>pg_dump -U postgres -h localhost -p 5432 -F c -v -f "alfresco_db" alfresco<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>pg_restore -U postgres -h localhost -p 5432 -C -d postgres -v alfresco_db<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>When starting Alfresco on Server 2, I get this following error:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />2012-08-07 07:50:15,623&nbsp; ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] [main] Context initialization failed<BR /> java.lang.NullPointerException<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepoStore.findNodeRef(RepoStore.java:315)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepoStore$7$1.execute(RepoStore.java:685)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepoStore$7$1.execute(RepoStore.java:682)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:388)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepoStore$7.doWork(RepoStore.java:681)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepoStore$7.doWork(RepoStore.java:678)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationUtil.runAs(AuthenticationUtil.java:519)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepoStore.getDocument(RepoStore.java:677)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry.initWebScripts(DeclarativeRegistry.java:367)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry.reset(DeclarativeRegistry.java:178)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer.reset(AbstractRuntimeContainer.java:259)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.init(RepositoryContainer.java:633)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer$5.execute(RepositoryContainer.java:603)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:388)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.reset(RepositoryContainer.java:598)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer$4.doWork(RepositoryContainer.java:553)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationUtil.runAs(AuthenticationUtil.java:519)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.onApplicationEvent(RepositoryContainer.java:557)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEventInternal(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:209)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:180)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:303)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:911)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:428)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:276)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:197)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:63)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3972)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4467)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:905)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:740)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:500)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)<BR />Aug 7, 2012 7:50:15 AM com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener contextInitialized<BR />INFO: WSSERVLET12: JAX-WS context listener initializing<BR />Aug 7, 2012 7:50:24 AM com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletDelegate &lt;init&gt;<BR />INFO: WSSERVLET14: JAX-WS servlet initializing<BR />Aug 7, 2012 7:50:24 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start<BR />SEVERE: Error listenerStart<BR />Aug 7, 2012 7:50:24 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start<BR />SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors<BR /><SPAN 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Any help would be very appreciated. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Supta</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:31:01 GMT supta 2012-08-07T01:31:01Z Problem in migrating server https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-in-migrating-server/m-p/274058#M227188 I'm migrating Alfresco Community 4.0.b from Server 1 to Server 2. Both are Ubuntu Server 10.04. I have followed the instruction from wiki, http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/System_Migration, and I used binary installation file to install Alfresco on both server.Database back up and restore code<IMG id="smileytongue" class="emoticon emoticon-smileytongue" src="https://migration33.stage.lithium.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.png" alt="Smiley Tongue" title="Smiley Tongue" />g_dump Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:31:01 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-in-migrating-server/m-p/274058#M227188 supta 2012-08-07T01:31:01Z Re: Problem in migrating server https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-in-migrating-server/m-p/274059#M227189 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>This thread is being handled on stackoverflow:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11842070/alfresco-migrating-server" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11842070/alfresco-migrating-server</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Jeff</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:12:18 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-in-migrating-server/m-p/274059#M227189 jpotts 2012-08-09T16:12:18Z