4.2 alfresco community. Context initialization failed, Please help~~

[jimmy_huang]

I am trying to migrate the alfresco system from Windows7 to Windows server 2003.
After I synchronized the mysql database structure and data from to win7 to Windows server 2003 and replace the alf_data on target server, I restart the the alfresco server ,then the error cames out. Can anyone help??!

09:12:46,937 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Starting 'Synchronization' subsystem, ID: [Synchronization, default]
09:12:47,015 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Startup of 'Synchronization' subsystem, ID: [Synchronization, default] complete
09:12:47,078 INFO  [org.alfresco.service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - v1.7.0_07-b10; maximum heap size 682.688MB
09:12:47,078 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at java.lang.StringBuilder.<init>(StringBuilder.java:109)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorServiceImpl$BaseDescriptor.getVersion(DescriptorServiceImpl.java:551)
   at org.alfresco.repo.descriptor.DescriptorStartupLog.onBootstrap(DescriptorStartupLog.java:185)
   at org.springframework.extensions.surf.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:56)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEventInternal(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:209)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:180)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:303)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:911)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:428)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:276)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:197)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:63)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4791)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5285)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:618)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:963)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1600)
   at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
   at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
   at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)

[abarisone]

Hi,
I think the problem is related to the fact you're trying to migrate towards a OS versione that is not longer supported.
Try to install it on a Windows Server 2008 R2 as reported by compatibility matriz.

Regards,
Andrea

[kaynezhang]

you can configure the log4j.properties file and set log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.descriptor = info and trace the log file to see what is going on ,Maybe you are missing some configuration files.

[rjohnson]

Your maximum heap is is rather small, can you increase it? We did occasionally get context fails on a restart when we first started with Alfresco and found that tuning the JVM settings eliminated them.