Piergiorgio Lucidi [http://community.jboss.org/people/piergiorgiolucidi] replied to the discussion "Jboss Portal Installation 2.7.2 - Newbie Issues" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/553906#553906 -------------------------------------------------------------- Here you can see the root of the problem: --- MBEANS THAT ARE THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM --- ObjectName: jboss.jca:service=DataSourceBinding,name=PortalDS   State: NOTYETINSTALLED   Depends On Me:     portal:service=Hibernate,type=CMS     portal:service=CMS     portal:service=Hibernate,type=Workflow     portal:service=Hibernate,type=WSRPConsumer     portal:service=Hibernate     portal:service=Hibernate,type=Instance     portal:service=Hibernate,type=PortalObject     portal:service=Hibernate,type=Portlet This return the following exception for the datasource of the portal: 2010-07-21 13:50:27,196 ERROR [org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.PortalServlet] Unexpected exception java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.PersistentPortalObjectContainer.getObjectNode(PersistentPortalObjectContainer.java:252) at org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.AbstractPortalObjectContainer.getContext(AbstractPortalObjectContainer.java:112) at org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.AbstractPortalObjectContainer.getContext(AbstractPortalObjectContainer.java:81) at org.jboss.portal.core.model.portal.DefaultPortalCommandFactory.doMapping(DefaultPortalCommandFactory.java:72) at org.jboss.portal.core.controller.Controller.handle(Controller.java:252) at org.jboss.portal.server.RequestControllerDispatcher.invoke(RequestControllerDispatcher.java:51) at org.jboss.portal.common.invocation.Invocation.invokeNext(Invocation.java:131) at org.jboss.portal.common.invocation.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:157) at org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.PortalServlet.service(PortalServlet.java:252) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:182) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:432) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:84) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:157) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:262) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:856) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:566) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1508) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) Hope this helps ;) -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/553906#553906] Start a new discussion in JBoss Portal at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]