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Glassfish 4 on some Windows machines won't show admin interface

From: Cay Horstmann <cay.horstmann_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:39:44 -0700

I just used Glassfish 4 for a lab in my mobile dev class, and a fraction of
the Windows users were unable to get it to work. Applications wouldn't
load, including the admin interface. The log has messages such as

[2013-07-22T15:22:22.168-0700] [glassfish 4.0] [WARNING] []
[javax.enterprise.system.container.web.com.sun.web.security] [tid:
_ThreadID=34 _ThreadName=admin-listener(3)] [timeMillis:
1374531742168] [levelValue: 900] [[
  Context path from ServletContext: differs from path from bundle: /]]

[2013-07-22T15:22:22.169-0700] [glassfish 4.0] [SEVERE]
[AS-WEB-CORE-00037] [javax.enterprise.web.core] [tid: _ThreadID=34
_ThreadName=admin-listener(3)] [timeMillis: 1374531742169]
[levelValue: 1000] [[
  An exception or error occurred in the container during the request processing
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.sun.enterprise.security.jmac.config.ConfigHelper.hasExactMatchAuthProvider(ConfigHelper.java:232)
        at com.sun.enterprise.security.jmac.config.HttpServletHelper.<init>(HttpServletHelper.java:100)
        at com.sun.web.security.RealmAdapter.getConfigHelper(RealmAdapter.java:1604)
        at com.sun.web.security.RealmAdapter.initConfigHelper(RealmAdapter.java:1976)
        at com.sun.web.security.RealmAdapter.isSecurityExtensionEnabled(RealmAdapter.java:1588)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:95)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:174)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:357)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:260)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:246)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.runService(HttpHandler.java:191)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.doHandle(HttpHandler.java:168)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpServerFilter.handleRead(HttpServerFilter.java:189)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.ExecutorResolver$9.execute(ExecutorResolver.java:119)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeFilter(DefaultFilterChain.java:288)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeChainPart(DefaultFilterChain.java:206)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.execute(DefaultFilterChain.java:136)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.process(DefaultFilterChain.java:114)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.ProcessorExecutor.execute(ProcessorExecutor.java:77)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.nio.transport.TCPNIOTransport.fireIOEvent(TCPNIOTransport.java:838)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.AbstractIOStrategy.fireIOEvent(AbstractIOStrategy.java:113)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.run0(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:115)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.access$100(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:55)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy$WorkerThreadRunnable.run(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:135)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:564)
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:544)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
]]

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Cay