Context initialization failed java.lang.NullPointerException

[tonytony]

16:07:19,890 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.xml.XMLConfigService$PropertyConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/file-servers.properties]
16:07:23,953 WARN  [org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiRegistryFactoryBean] Could not detect RMI registry - creating new one
16:07:32,187 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.swf.PDFToSWFContentTransformer] Failed to start SWF2PDF transformer: 
Execution result: 
   os:         Windows 2003
   command:    pdf2swf -V
   succeeded:  false
   exit code:  1
   out:        
   err:        Cannot run program "pdf2swf": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
16:07:34,250 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] Schema managed by database dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect.
16:07:39,187 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] No changes were made to the schema.
16:07:43,609 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.node.index.FullIndexRecoveryComponent] Index recovery started: 42,030 transactions.
16:08:09,156 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.db.DbNodeServiceImpl.getPropertiesImpl(DbNodeServiceImpl.java:1099)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.db.DbNodeServiceImpl.getProperties(DbNodeServiceImpl.java:1084)
   at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor222.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:281)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:187)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:154)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.SingleEntryTransactionResourceInterceptor.invokeInternal(SingleEntryTransactionResourceInterceptor.java:169)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.SingleEntryTransactionResourceInterceptor.invoke(SingleEntryTransactionResourceInterceptor.java:138)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:176)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:210)
   at $Proxy3.getProperties(Unknown Source)
   at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor222.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at org.alfresco.repo.service.StoreRedirectorProxyFactory$RedirectorInvocationHandler.invoke(StoreRedirectorProxyFactory.java:221)
   at $Proxy4.getProperties(Unknown Source)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.ADMLuceneIndexerImpl.createDocuments(ADMLuceneIndexerImpl.java:565)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.AbstractLuceneIndexerImpl.indexImpl(AbstractLuceneIndexerImpl.java:632)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.AbstractLuceneIndexerImpl.indexImpl(AbstractLuceneIndexerImpl.java:657)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.AbstractLuceneIndexerImpl.flushPending(AbstractLuceneIndexerImpl.java:789)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.ADMLuceneIndexerImpl.doPrepare(ADMLuceneIndexerImpl.java:1410)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.AbstractLuceneIndexerImpl.prepare(AbstractLuceneIndexerImpl.java:472)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.AbstractLuceneIndexerAndSearcherFactory.prepare(AbstractLuceneIndexerAndSearcherFactory.java:700)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.AlfrescoTransactionSupport$TransactionSynchronizationImpl.beforeCommit(AlfrescoTransactionSupport.java:622)
   at org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationUtils.triggerBeforeCommit(TransactionSynchronizationUtils.java:48)
   at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.triggerBeforeCommit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:821)
   at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.processCommit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:637)
   at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.commit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:624)
   at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport.commitTransactionAfterReturning(TransactionAspectSupport.java:307)
   at org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction.commit(SpringAwareUserTransaction.java:431)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:256)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.index.FullIndexRecoveryComponent.reindexTransaction(FullIndexRecoveryComponent.java:387)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.index.FullIndexRecoveryComponent.performFullRecovery(FullIndexRecoveryComponent.java:297)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.index.FullIndexRecoveryComponent.reindexImpl(FullIndexRecoveryComponent.java:194)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.index.AbstractReindexComponent$1.execute(AbstractReindexComponent.java:216)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:242)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:191)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.index.AbstractReindexComponent.reindex(AbstractReindexComponent.java:220)
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.index.IndexRecoveryBootstrapBean.onBootstrap(IndexRecoveryBootstrapBean.java:35)
   at org.alfresco.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:62)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster$1.run(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:77)
   at org.springframework.core.task.SyncTaskExecutor.execute(SyncTaskExecutor.java:49)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:75)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:241)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:349)
   at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:156)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3830)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4337)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:825)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:714)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:566)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
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Trying to install the 3a.1032 nightly WAR build on an existing tomcat installation. Can't figure out why it keeps failing….

[mvdheiden]

any news on this error?

[tonytony]

I dropped the database and started over with the last nightly build…

[mvdheiden]

I dropped the database and started over with the last nightly build…

and it works fine for you?

[tonytony]

Fine?  :wink:

Well, I started fresh.  The alfresco system is working, but the share (slingshot) is still a little flaky. My alfresco add on isn't configuring. And every night the whole system freezes.

To be expected in a nightly release, but whatever was causing the null pointer is not happening anymore.