Juergen Hoffmann created AS7-4136: ------------------------------------- Summary: Enhance Error Reporting Key: AS7-4136 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-4136 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Enhancement Reporter: Juergen Hoffmann Priority: Minor If you do not have a port offset configured in our host.xml servers socket binding definition, you will receive a Null Pointer Exception: <servers> <server name="MY-AS-PROD" group="MY-AS-PROD" auto-start="true"> <jvm name="default"> <jvm-options> <option value="-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8787,server=y,suspend=n"/> </jvm-options> </jvm> <socket-bindings socket-binding-group="standard-sockets"/> </server> </servers> after adding port-offset="0" the NPE vanished 15:18:16,740 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS014601: Error booting the container: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.ConfigurationPersistenceException: JBAS014676: Failed to parse configuration at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractControllerService$1.run(AbstractControllerService.java:161) [jboss-as-controller-7.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.0.Final-redhat-1] at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.6.0_30] Caused by: org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.ConfigurationPersistenceException: JBAS014676: Failed to parse configuration at org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.XmlConfigurationPersister.load(XmlConfigurationPersister.java:125) [jboss-as-controller-7.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.0.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.as.host.controller.HostControllerConfigurationPersister.load(HostControllerConfigurationPersister.java:155) [jboss-as-host-controller-7.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.0.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.as.host.controller.DomainModelControllerService.boot(DomainModelControllerService.java:311) [jboss-as-host-controller-7.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.0.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractControllerService$1.run(AbstractControllerService.java:155) [jboss-as-controller-7.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.0.Final-redhat-1] ... 1 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.as.host.controller.parsing.HostXml.parseServerSocketBindings(HostXml.java:1156) [jboss-as-host-controller-7.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.0.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.as.host.controller.parsing.HostXml.parseServerContent1_1(HostXml.java:1044) [jboss-as-host-controller-7.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.0.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.as.host.controller.parsing.HostXml.parseServer(HostXml.java:958) [jboss-as-host-controller-7.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.0.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.as.host.controller.parsing.HostXml.parseServers(HostXml.java:935) [jboss-as-host-controller-7.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.0.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.as.host.controller.parsing.HostXml.readHostElement_1_1(HostXml.java:398) [jboss-as-host-controller-7.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.0.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.as.host.controller.parsing.HostXml.readElement(HostXml.java:123) [jboss-as-host-controller-7.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.0.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.as.host.controller.parsing.HostXml.readElement(HostXml.java:101) [jboss-as-host-controller-7.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.0.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.processNested(XMLMapperImpl.java:110) [staxmapper-1.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.1.0.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.parseDocument(XMLMapperImpl.java:69) [staxmapper-1.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.1.0.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.XmlConfigurationPersister.load(XmlConfigurationPersister.java:117) [jboss-as-controller-7.1.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.0.Final-redhat-1] ... 4 more -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira