AlfrescoRuntimeException: Failed to authenticate as Guest us

[useeliger]

I have an Alfresco Community installation (2.9.0C dev) which worked quite god, but now I get this error when trying to access the WebCLient:

16:34:09,669 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.xml.XMLConfigService$PropertyConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/file-servers.properties]
16:34:15,371 INFO  [org.alfresco.mbeans.VirtServerRegistry] Creating VirtServerRegistry MBean
16:34:16,402 WARN  [org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiRegistryFactoryBean] Could not detect RMI registry - creating new one
16:34:16,543 INFO  [org.alfresco.mbeans.VirtServerRegistry] Created JMX serverConnector
16:34:30,870 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] Schema managed by database dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect.
16:34:37,291 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] No changes were made to the schema.
16:34:45,728 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco root data directory ('dir.root') is: C:\Alfresco\alf_data
16:34:46,024 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.PatchExecuter] Checking for patches to apply …
16:34:49,649 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] Found 0 module(s).
16:34:52,071 INFO  [org.alfresco.service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - v1.5.0_12-b04; maximum heap size 506.313MB
16:34:52,071 INFO  [org.alfresco.service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco started (Community Network): Current version 2.9.0 (C_dev 816) schema 124 - Installed version 2.9.0 (C_dev 816) schema 124
16:35:27,614 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/alfresco].[Faces Servlet]] Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Failed to authenticate as Guest user.
   at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.AuthenticationHelper.authenticate(AuthenticationHelper.java:213)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.AuthenticationHelper.authenticate(AuthenticationHelper.java:109)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.AuthenticationFilter.doFilter(AuthenticationFilter.java:75)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:210)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
   at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
   at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
   at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870)
   at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
   at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
   at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
   at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: FacesContext must not be null
   at org.springframework.util.Assert.notNull(Assert.java:113)
   at org.springframework.web.jsf.FacesContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(FacesContextUtils.java:50)
   at org.springframework.web.jsf.FacesContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(FacesContextUtils.java:81)
   at org.alfresco.web.bean.repository.Repository.getServiceRegistry(Repository.java:556)
   at org.alfresco.web.bean.repository.Preferences.getNodeService(Preferences.java:107)
   at org.alfresco.web.bean.repository.Preferences.getValue(Preferences.java:79)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.Application.getLanguage(Application.java:691)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.AuthenticationHelper.authenticate(AuthenticationHelper.java:187)
   … 16 more
16:35:28,708 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/alfresco].[jsp]] Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.FacesHelper.getManagedBean(FacesHelper.java:153)
   at org.alfresco.web.ui.repo.tag.PageTag.getWindowOnloadCode(PageTag.java:374)
   at org.alfresco.web.ui.repo.tag.PageTag.doStartTag(PageTag.java:284)
   at org.apache.jsp.jsp.error_jsp._jspService(error_jsp.java:74)
   at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)
   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
   at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:328)
   at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:315)
   at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:691)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:471)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:403)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.custom(StandardHostValve.java:364)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.throwable(StandardHostValve.java:213)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:135)
   at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
   at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
   at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870)
   at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
   at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
   at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
   at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

What also happend is that Alfresco created a directory under alf_data/lucene-indexes called "indexbackup_temp" and under this a directory "indexbackup_temp" and so on.

[unknown-user]

I am also having this problem, is there a solution?

[unknown-user]

This occurs when you delete the Guest Home. I was able to get back into alfresco as admin, and fully delete the Guest user & recreate it. The errors ceased and the login screen appeared.

Alf will no longer auto-login as guest with the ability to browse, and a login screen will appear instead (not the worst thing to happen).

A reinstall couldn't hurt at this point if you are accustom to browsing documents as the Guest user.

[unknown-user]

Deleting the guest account in Alfresco will break the entire installation. FYI.