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    Jboss Portal Installation 2.7.2 - Newbie Issues
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    reply from <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/piergiorgiolucidi">Piergiorgio Lucidi</a> in <i>JBoss Portal</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/553906#553906">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Here you can see the root of the problem:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><div id="_mcePaste"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">--- MBEANS THAT ARE THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM ---</span></div><div id="_mcePaste"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">ObjectName: jboss.jca:service=DataSourceBinding,name=PortalDS</span></div><div id="_mcePaste"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160; State: NOTYETINSTALLED</span></div><div id="_mcePaste"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160; Depends On Me:</span></div><div id="_mcePaste"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160; portal:service=Hibernate,type=CMS</span></div><div id="_mcePaste"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160; portal:service=CMS</span></div><div id="_mcePaste"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160; portal:service=Hibernate,type=Workflow</span></div><div id="_mcePaste"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160; portal:service=Hibernate,type=WSRPConsumer</span></div><div id="_mcePaste"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160; portal:service=Hibernate</span></div><div id="_mcePaste"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160; portal:service=Hibernate,type=Instance</span></div><div id="_mcePaste"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160; portal:service=Hibernate,type=PortalObject</span></div><div id="_mcePaste"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160; portal:service=Hibernate,type=Portlet</span></div><div> </div><div>This return the following exception for the datasource of the portal:</div><div> </div><div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">2010-07-21 13:50:27,196 ERROR [org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.PortalServlet] Unexpected exception</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">java.lang.NullPointerException</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.PersistentPortalObjectContainer.getObjectNode(PersistentPortalObjectContainer.java:252)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.AbstractPortalObjectContainer.getContext(AbstractPortalObjectContainer.java:112)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.AbstractPortalObjectContainer.getContext(AbstractPortalObjectContainer.java:81)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.jboss.portal.core.model.portal.DefaultPortalCommandFactory.doMapping(DefaultPortalCommandFactory.java:72)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.jboss.portal.core.controller.Controller.handle(Controller.java:252)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.jboss.portal.server.RequestControllerDispatcher.invoke(RequestControllerDispatcher.java:51)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.jboss.portal.common.invocation.Invocation.invokeNext(Invocation.java:131)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.jboss.portal.common.invocation.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:157)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.PortalServlet.service(PortalServlet.java:252)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:182)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:432)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:84)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:157)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:262)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:856)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:566)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1508)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope this helps</span><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"> <span> ;) </span></span></div></div></div>

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