Created attachment 943185 [details] jenkins log Description of problem: When accessing the site http://localhost:8080 in firefox, it gives a Error 503 Service Unavailable. I have disabled the firewalld. Cleared the firefox cache. Confirmed if jenkins is running. from /var/log/jenkins/jenkins.log Oct 01, 2014 8:03:36 PM hudson.WebAppMain contextInitialized SEVERE: Failed to initialize Jenkins java.lang.NullPointerException at com.trilead.ssh2.util.IOUtils.closeQuietly(IOUtils.java:12) at hudson.WebAppMain.recordBootAttempt(WebAppMain.java:272) at hudson.WebAppMain.contextInitialized(WebAppMain.java:128) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ContextHandler.java:782) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ServletContextHandler.java:424) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java:774) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.startContext(ServletContextHandler.java:249) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1242) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:717) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:494) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:95) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:282) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64) at winstone.Launcher.<init>(Launcher.java:152) at winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483) at Main._main(Main.java:290) at Main.main(Main.java:104) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): jenkins-1.581-2.fc21.noarch java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.20-8.b26.fc21.x86_64 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open firefox 2.Enter http://localhost:8080 3. Actual results: Error 503 Service Unavailable Expected results: Should take to the jenkins page. Additional info: A quick googling says 1) Jenkins with version 1.548 works only with java-1.7, not sure if this is applicable to jenkins - 1.581
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1147846 ***