Problem with installing Team City 4.5.4 on CentOS 5.2: spring configuration NullPointerException

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Created July 16, 2009 13:37

Hello. I have problems with basic installation of TeamCity. I tried two different installations which resulted in same error:

I. JEE distribution (installed according to avaliable information on page Installation and Upgrade->Installation->Installing and Configuring the TeamCity Server->war distribution)

- I added TeamCity war file as new JEE application (root-context=teamserver)
- I added custom properties for JEE container (Application servers > server1 > Custom properties):
a) log4j.configuration=file:../conf/teamcity-server-log4j.xml
b) teamcity_logs ../logs/
- I restarted WAS server for custom properties to take effect
- I tried to open application: https://iapetus:9443/teamcity/
- exception was thrown

Exception was thrown:

Unexpected Error

Error message: SRVE0207E: Uncaught initialization exception created by servlet

Show stacktrace

Trace: javax.servlet.ServletException: SRVE0207E: Uncaught initialization exception created by servlet
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:378)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl.init(ServletWrapperImpl.java:165)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:631)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:444)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl.handleRequest(ServletWrapperImpl.java:175)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.forward(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:325)
 at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.forward(PageContextImpl.java:564)
 at com.ibm._jsp._index._jspService(_index.java:95)
 at com.ibm.ws.jsp.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:831)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:1455)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:1396)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:104)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain._doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:77)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager.doFilter(WebAppFilterManager.java:852)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:788)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:444)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl.handleRequest(ServletWrapperImpl.java:175)
 at com.ibm.wsspi.webcontainer.servlet.GenericServletWrapper.handleRequest(GenericServletWrapper.java:121)
 at com.ibm.ws.jsp.webcontainerext.AbstractJSPExtensionServletWrapper.handleRequest(AbstractJSPExtensionServletWrapper.java:234)
 at com.ibm.ws.jsp.webcontainerext.AbstractJSPExtensionProcessor.handleRequest(AbstractJSPExtensionProcessor.java:337)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.forward(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:325)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.FilterProxyServlet.dispatch(FilterProxyServlet.java:79)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.FilterProxyServlet.service(FilterProxyServlet.java:58)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:1455)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:1396)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:104)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain._doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:77)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager.doFilter(WebAppFilterManager.java:852)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager.invokeFilters(WebAppFilterManager.java:917)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.extension.DefaultExtensionProcessor.invokeFilters(DefaultExtensionProcessor.java:924)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.extension.DefaultExtensionProcessor.handleRequest(DefaultExtensionProcessor.java:651)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.handleRequest(WebApp.java:3622)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroup.handleRequest(WebGroup.java:276)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:927)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.handleRequest(WSWebContainer.java:1566)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.channel.WCChannelLink.ready(WCChannelLink.java:175)
 at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleDiscrimination(HttpInboundLink.java:455)
 at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleNewInformation(HttpInboundLink.java:384)
 at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpICLReadCallback.complete(HttpICLReadCallback.java:83)
 at com.ibm.ws.ssl.channel.impl.SSLReadServiceContext$SSLReadCompletedCallback.complete(SSLReadServiceContext.java:1772)
 at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.AioReadCompletionListener.futureCompleted(AioReadCompletionListener.java:165)
 at com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.invokeCallback(AbstractAsyncFuture.java:217)
 at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncChannelFuture.fireCompletionActions(AsyncChannelFuture.java:161)
 at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncFuture.completed(AsyncFuture.java:138)
 at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.complete(ResultHandler.java:204)
 at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.runEventProcessingLoop(ResultHandler.java:775)
 at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler$2.run(ResultHandler.java:905)
 at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1527)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'customEditorConfigurer' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/buildServerSpringWeb.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:478)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:224)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:380)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:264)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:217)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:261)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164)
 at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(AbstractApplicationContext.java:881)
 at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:534)
 at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:363)
 at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:255)
 at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:199)
 at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:45)
 at jetbrains.buildServer.web.impl.ServerContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ServerContextLoaderListener.java:30)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.notifyServletContextCreated(WebApp.java:1591)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.commonInitializationFinish(WebApp.java:353)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppImpl.initialize(WebAppImpl.java:293)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroupImpl.addWebApplication(WebGroupImpl.java:100)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.VirtualHostImpl.addWebApplication(VirtualHostImpl.java:166)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.addWebApp(WSWebContainer.java:728)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.addWebApplication(WSWebContainer.java:613)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.install(WebContainerImpl.java:376)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.start(WebContainerImpl.java:668)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1144)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.fireDeployedObjectStart(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:1313)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedModuleImpl.start(DeployedModuleImpl.java:611)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.start(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:938)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplication(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:723)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:2068)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:437)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitImpl.start(CompositionUnitImpl.java:122)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:380)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.access$300(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:108)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl$CUInitializer.run(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:935)
 at com.ibm.wsspi.runtime.component.WsComponentImpl$_AsynchInitializer.run(WsComponentImpl.java:349)
 ... 1 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
 at org.springframework.core.GenericTypeResolver.getTypeVariableMap(GenericTypeResolver.java:144)
 at org.springframework.core.GenericTypeResolver.resolveReturnType(GenericTypeResolver.java:93)
 at org.springframework.beans.GenericTypeAwarePropertyDescriptor.getPropertyType(GenericTypeAwarePropertyDescriptor.java:58)
 at java.beans.PropertyDescriptor.setWriteMethod(PropertyDescriptor.java:111)
 at java.beans.PropertyDescriptor.<init>(PropertyDescriptor.java:77)
 at org.springframework.beans.GenericTypeAwarePropertyDescriptor.<init>(GenericTypeAwarePropertyDescriptor.java:47)
 at org.springframework.beans.CachedIntrospectionResults.<init>(CachedIntrospectionResults.java:250)
 at org.springframework.beans.CachedIntrospectionResults.forClass(CachedIntrospectionResults.java:144)
 at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.getCachedIntrospectionResults(BeanWrapperImpl.java:252)
 at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.convertForProperty(BeanWrapperImpl.java:380)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.convertForProperty(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1287)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1248)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1008)
 at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:470)
 ... 37 more

II. tar.gz distribution (installed according to avaliable information on page Installation and Upgrade->Installation->Installing and Configuring the TeamCity Server->tar.gz distribution)
$ mkdir /opt/jetbrains
# copied TeamCity-4.5.4.tar.gz /opt/jetbrains
$ cd /opt/jetbrains
$ tar -zxvf TeamCity-4.5.4.tar.gz
$ mv TeamCity TeamCity-4.5.4
$ ln -s TeamCity-4.5.4.tar.gz TeamCity
$ mkdir -p /opt/jetbrains/TeamCity/data/config
# added data path to root user .bash_profile
JAVA_HOME=/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/java
TEAMCITY_DATA_PATH=/opt/jetbrains/TeamCity/data
export JAVA_HOME TEAMCITY_DATA_PATH
$ . ~/.bash_profile
# copied main-config.xml from /opt/jetbrains/TeamCity/data/config
$ cd /opt/jetbrains/TeamCity/bin
$ runAll.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /opt/jetbrains/TeamCity
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /opt/jetbrains/TeamCity
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/jetbrains/TeamCity/temp
Using JRE_HOME:       /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/java
Starting TeamCity build agent...
Done [23020], see log at ../logs/teamcity-agent.log

When I look at the ../logs/teamcity-server.log, following exception is shown:
[root@iapetus bin]# less ../logs/teamcity-server.log
[2009-07-16 01:26:05,514]   INFO -   jetbrains.buildServer.SERVER - Starting TeamCity server
[2009-07-16 01:26:11,543]  ERROR -   jetbrains.buildServer.SERVER - Failed to initialize TeamCity server, due to error (en
able debug to see the whole stacktrace):
Error creating bean with name 'customEditorConfigurer' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/buildServerSpringWeb.x
ml]: Initialization of bean failed;
 java.lang.NullPointerException



[2009-07-16 10:45:16,547]   INFO -   jetbrains.buildServer.SERVER - Starting TeamCity server
[2009-07-16 10:45:21,725]  ERROR -   jetbrains.buildServer.SERVER - Failed to initialize TeamCity server, due to error (en
able debug to see the whole stacktrace):
Error creating bean with name 'customEditorConfigurer' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/buildServerSpringWeb.x
ml]: Initialization of bean failed;
 java.lang.NullPointerException



[2009-07-16 11:41:57,874]   INFO -   jetbrains.buildServer.SERVER - Starting TeamCity server
[2009-07-16 11:42:03,116]  ERROR -   jetbrains.buildServer.SERVER - Failed to initialize TeamCity server, due to error (en
able debug to see the whole stacktrace):
Error creating bean with name 'customEditorConfigurer' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/buildServerSpringWeb.x
ml]: Initialization of bean failed;
 java.lang.NullPointerException

Am I missing something?

Thanks for your help,

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2 comments

Pavel Sher

Created July 16, 2009 15:14

Try to use Sun JRE instead of IBM. It seems NullPointerException is caused by strange JRE behavior.

Permanently deleted user

Created July 17, 2009 02:57

Hello.

Thanks for your help. It solved my problem. Complete procedure, if anyone else will have the same problem:
- downlad latest jdk from sun: jdk-6u14-linux-i586-rpm.bin
$ ./jdk-6u14-linux-i586-rpm.bin
# add to java alternatives
$ alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_14/bin/java 120 \
--slave /usr/bin/keytool keytool /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_14/bin/keytool \
--slave /usr/bin/rmiregistry rmiregistry /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_14/bin/rmiregistry

$ alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_14/bin/javac 120 \
--slave /usr/bin/jar jar /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_14/bin/jar \
--slave /usr/bin/rmic rmic /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_14/bin/rmic

alternatives --config java
alternatives --config javac

Maybe it would be good to mention, that product supports only Sun JDK in installation notes or which JDK's does support.

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