[Building Sakai] [Using Sakai] Error while running sakai

[David Horwitz]

Hi John,

Yes as far as I know Sakai won't run under tomcat 6 at this point. That
particular stack trace can have various causes - you may have to see the
error higher up in the log to see the originating cause.

David

John Ament wrote:
> So you're saying it's completely because of tomcat 6?  It looks like the
> issue I'm seeing is this here:
>
> http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-14262
>
> If it helps any, I am running from the bin distribution.
>
> - John
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:49 AM, David Horwitz <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za>wrote:
>
>   
>>  Hi John,
>>
>> To run Sakai you should be using tomcat 5.5 (5.5.26 or 5.5.27) While it
>> should run uner java 6 - this is as yet untested for the release (but a
>> number of people have reported doing so successfully)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> David
>>
>> John Ament wrote:
>>
>> So this is the first time I've installed sakai.  I'm running on tomcat 6
>> (let me know if that's a big deal), and tried both jdk 1.5 u 18 and jdk 1.6
>> u 10.
>>
>> I get the following error, when clicking on User Membership
>>
>> This information will automatically be included in your bug report.
>>
>> org.sakaiproject.portal.api.PortalHandlerException:
>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>     at org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.SkinnableCharonPortal.doGet(SkinnableCharonPortal.java:891)
>> caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>>     at org.sakaiproject.tool.impl.ActiveToolComponent$MyActiveTool.forward(ActiveToolComponent.java:459)
>>     at org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.SkinnableCharonPortal.forwardTool(SkinnableCharonPortal.java:1343)
>>     at org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.handlers.ToolHandler.doTool(ToolHandler.java:163)
>>     at org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.handlers.ToolHandler.doGet(ToolHandler.java:86)
>>     at org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.SkinnableCharonPortal.doGet(SkinnableCharonPortal.java:891)
>>     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
>>     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
>>     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
>>     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
>>     at org.sakaiproject.util.RequestFilter.doFilter(RequestFilter.java:592)
>>     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
>>     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
>>     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
>>     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
>>     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
>>     at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
>>     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
>>     at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)
>>     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:845)
>>     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
>>     at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
>>     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
>>
>>
>> user: admin
>>
>> usage-session: 57ea4fff-3c8b-46aa-8f5b-6f4031e8b734
>>
>> time: Apr 10, 2009 07:25:10
>>
>> If it's relevant, I'm running on a dual core intel w/ 2 gb ram, tomcat's
>> starting as root, and i'm running opensuse 11.1.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
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