[Using Sakai] Unable to login on 2.6.0 source release

[Johan van den Berg]

Hi

I sincerely apologize if this is a well known issue, I have not been  
able to find any reference to my issue via google.

I've been out of the game for some time, and trying to pick up slack.

I downloaded 2.6.0 source release, compiled, installed into apache- 
tomcat-5.5.27 on Mac, running java 1.5.0_16, mysql 5.0.41.

Everything seems ok, no errors in logs, database created and properly  
populated with core data, home page showing correctly, etc, but as  
soon as I log in with admin/admin I get the following crash report:

2009-08-13 19:14:31,219  WARN http-8080-Processor23  
org.sakaiproject.portal.util.ErrorReporter - Bug Report bug-id:  
1f65f98b-ace3-41b0-abf0-86ecd39126f9 user: null usage-session: null  
time: Aug 13, 2009 19:14:31 user comment: null stack trace
org.sakaiproject.portal.api.PortalHandlerException:  
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at  
org 
.sakaiproject 
.portal.charon.handlers.XLoginHandler.doPost(XLoginHandler.java:50)
caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
     at  
org 
.sakaiproject 
.portal 
.charon.SkinnableCharonPortal.doLogin(SkinnableCharonPortal.java:861)
     at  
org 
.sakaiproject 
.portal.charon.handlers.XLoginHandler.doGet(XLoginHandler.java:61)
     at  
org 
.sakaiproject 
.portal.charon.handlers.XLoginHandler.doPost(XLoginHandler.java:50)
     at  
org 
.sakaiproject 
.portal.charon.SkinnableCharonPortal.doPost(SkinnableCharonPortal.java: 
1059)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:647)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
     at  
org 
.apache 
.catalina 
.core 
.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java: 
269)
     at  
org 
.apache 
.catalina 
.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
     at  
org.sakaiproject.util.RequestFilter.doFilter(RequestFilter.java:616)
     at  
org 
.apache 
.catalina 
.core 
.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java: 
215)
     at  
org 
.apache 
.catalina 
.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
     at  
org 
.apache 
.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java: 
213)
     at  
org 
.apache 
.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java: 
172)
     at  
org 
.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java: 
127)
     at  
org 
.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java: 
117)
     at  
org 
.apache 
.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
     at  
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java: 
174)
     at  
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java: 
875)
     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol 
$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
     at  
org 
.apache 
.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
     at  
org 
.apache 
.tomcat 
.util 
.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java: 
81)
     at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool 
$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)

Tool Placement:
No Placement

Request:
:    AuthType:null
:    CharEncoding:UTF-8
:    ContentLength:31
:    ContentType:application/x-www-form-urlencoded
:    ContextPath:/portal
:    LocalAddress:127.0.0.1
:    LocalName:localhost
:    LocalPort:8080
:    Method:POST
:    PathInfo:/xlogin
:    Protocol:HTTP/1.1
:    QueryString:null
:    RemoteAddress:127.0.0.1
:    RemoteHost:127.0.0.1
:    RemotePort:54239
:    Requested URL:http://localhost:8080/portal/xlogin
:    Scheme:http
:    ServerName:localhost
:    Headers:
:        Header:host:localhost:8080
:        Header:user-agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X  
10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009073021 Firefox/3.0.13
:        Header:accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/ 
xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
:        Header:accept-language:en-us,en;q=0.5
:        Header:accept-encoding:gzip,deflate
:        Header:accept-charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
:        Header:keep-alive:300
:        Header:connection:keep-alive
:        Header:referer:http://localhost:8080/portal
:        Header:cookie:---censored---
:        Header:content-type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded
:        Header:content-length:31
:    Parameters:
:        Parameter:eid:0:----censored----
:        Parameter:pw:0:----censored----
:        Parameter:submit:0:Login
:    Attributes:
:         
Attribute:sakai.session:org.sakaiproject.tool.impl.SessionComponent 
$MySession at eaada24
:         
Attribute:sakai.character.encoding.done:sakai.character.encoding.done
:        Attribute:sakai.filtered:sakai.filtered
Session:
:    Created:1250183654742
:    LastAccess:1250183671169
:    MaxInactive:3600
:    Attributes:
:        Attribute:portalskin:defaultskin


Any ideas?

Johan van den Berg