On 11/20/09 11:05, glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> We're testing the sges-2_1_1-linux-ml.bin patch on our development systems prior to implementing on production and this patch appears to break our previous version of Glassfish (2.1 Patch03 / 9.1_02 Patch09).
>
> By break I mean GF loses contact with the application we have installed and within GF itself, it keeps throwing "HTTP Status 500" pages when browsing to, for example, "Configurations->default-config->JVM Settings" and then clicking on the "JVM Options" tab at the top. This error appears on most GF pages when you click anything other than the First Tab listed.
>
> I've searched high and low and cannot figure out what's going on. Here's the details:
>
> Our base OS: Enterprise Linux 4.7
> Our application is Sun Identity Manager 8.0
>
> Here's what we've tried:
>
> Installing this bundle alone works:
>
> [b]java_ee_sdk-507-linux.bin[/b]
>
> Installing this bundle alone works:
>
> [b]java_ee_sdk-5_08-jdk-6u17-linux.bin[/b]
>
> Installing this bundle:
>
> [b]java_ee_sdk-507-linux.bin[/b]
>
> ..and upgrading using this patch, fails:
>
> [b]sges-2_1_1-linux-ml.bin[/b]
>
> I’ve attached some pictures of what happens:
>
> Picture1 (Top) = the application as installed pre-patch
> Picture1 (Bottom) = the application after the patch is applied
> Picture2 = shows how GlassFish is throwing exceptions when clicking on other links, usually links that have pages with multiple tabs. For example this error was generated by browsing to: “JVM Settings->JVM Options (the third tab)”, usually the first tabs display correctly.
>
> Here is the full error message contained in Picture2 (and other pages when the 2nd tab is clicked):
>
> “[b]HTTP Status 500 -[/b]
>
> [b]type [/b]Exception report
>
> [b]message[/b]
>
> [b]description [/b]The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
>
> [b]exception[/b]
>
> javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException while attempting to process a 'beforeCreate' event for 'page1'.
>
> [b]root cause[/b]
>
> java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException while attempting to process a 'beforeCreate' event for 'page1'.
>
> [b]root cause[/b]
>
> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
>
> [b]root cause[/b]
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException”
>
The complete stacktraces in the server.log would be more informative.
What do they look like?
Jan
> We really need to install this patch for security purposes, but if it breaks our current GF installation, then we can't do it.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated, Thank You
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