tomcat and davenport

[Gary Benson]

Paul Bender wrote:
> Gary Benson wrote:
> > Try setting ENSURE_WEBAPPS_WRITABLE=yes in /etc/sysconfig/tomcat
> > and restarting tomcat.
> 
> Thank you. That enabled the davenport.war file to expand. Now, I
> just need to figure out why running davenport generates the error:
> 
> java.io.IOException: An unknown error occurred: 
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>    at smbdav.Davenport.getServer(java.lang.String) (Unknown Source)
>    at smbdav.Davenport.service(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, 
> javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) (Unknown Source)
>    at 
> javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, 
> javax.servlet.ServletResponse) (/usr/lib/lib-javax-servlet-2.3.so)
> ...

NullPointerExceptions are almost always libgcj errors.  If you file a
bug telling me how to reproduce the error then I'll look into it for
you.

Gary