[Spacewalk-list] rhn-search crashing with java null pointer exception

[Kenneth Ratliff]

Hi folks.

I apologize if this has been addressed before, but my google-fu has 
failed me in finding a resolution to this.

I installed spacewalk 1.3 on a centos 5.5 i386 Virtual Machine. So far, 
everything seems to have gone fine. The one exception is when I tried to 
search packages, and it said it couldnt connect to the search server. 
This lead me to see I needed ot start rhn-search, which I did. And then 
it promptly went away.

The log file shows the following:

STATUS | wrapper  | 2011/02/07 19:13:58 | --> Wrapper Started as Daemon
STATUS | wrapper  | 2011/02/07 19:13:58 | Launching a JVM...
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:13:59 | Wrapper (Version 3.2.1) 
http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:13:59 |
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 | Exception in thread "Thread-0" 
java.lang.NullPointerException
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:411)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
java.util.Properties.setProperty(Properties.java:160)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
com.redhat.satellite.search.db.DatabaseManager.<init>(DatabaseManager.java:66)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.InstantiatingComponentAdapter.newInstance(InstantiatingComponentAdapter.java:193)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter$1.run(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:220)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.ThreadLocalCyclicDependencyGuard.observe(ThreadLocalCyclicDependencyGuard.java:53)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:248)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.DecoratingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(DecoratingComponentAdapter.java:60)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.CachingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(CachingComponentAdapter.java:58)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.DefaultPicoContainer.getInstance(DefaultPicoContainer.java:393)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.DefaultPicoContainer.getComponentInstance(DefaultPicoContainer.java:374)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.BasicComponentParameter.resolveInstance(BasicComponentParameter.java:77)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.ComponentParameter.resolveInstance(ComponentParameter.java:114)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.getConstructorArguments(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:257)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter$1.run(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:217)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.ThreadLocalCyclicDependencyGuard.observe(ThreadLocalCyclicDependencyGuard.java:53)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:248)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.DecoratingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(DecoratingComponentAdapter.java:60)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.CachingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(CachingComponentAdapter.java:58)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.DefaultPicoContainer$OrderedComponentAdapterLifecycleManager.start(DefaultPicoContainer.java:644)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
org.picocontainer.defaults.DefaultPicoContainer.start(DefaultPicoContainer.java:456)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
com.redhat.satellite.search.ContainerRunner.run(ContainerRunner.java:42)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/07 19:14:00 |       at 
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
STATUS | wrapper  | 2011/02/07 19:14:02 | <-- Wrapper Stopped

My java version is as follows:

java version "1.6.0_17"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.7.5) (rhel-1.16.b17.el5-i386)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)


Unfortunately I know next to nothing when it comes to troubleshooting 
java apps, so I'm at something of a loss here. I did run across some 
articles about null pointer exceptions in general, and some folks seem 
to have made them go away by downgrading java back to 1.5, but before I 
resort back to that, I'd like to check and see if there's something 
simple I may have overlooked.

Thank you for your time!