Bug 87845 - NPE when accessing publishing tab
Summary: NPE when accessing publishing tab
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise CMS
Classification: Retired
Component: other
Version: nightly
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Justin Ross
QA Contact: Jon Orris
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 87722
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-04-03 04:12 UTC by Jon Orris
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2003-04-22 03:54:17 UTC
Embargoed:


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Description Jon Orris 2003-04-03 04:12:20 UTC
@29367

An NPE is generated when any attempt is made to access the publishing tab.

*-*-*- ACS Error Report Code:
ccm-installer.boston.redhat.com:8080:21165ae3:f451b63fcc -*-*-*-
-*-*-*- Message: null -*-*-*-

-*-*-*- Section: HTTP headers -*-*-*-
accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1
accept-charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
accept-encoding: gzip,deflate,compress;q=0.9
accept-language: en-us,en;q=0.5
connection: keep-alive
cookie: ad_user_login=374!1143947315532!n0FNaqGEUzEgbmmGoHOYBQ==;
JSESSIONID=3B450F20121913B68313FE3E2DE75141
host: ccm-installer.boston.redhat.com:8080
keep-alive: 300
referer:
http://ccm-installer.boston.redhat.com:8080/ccm/content-center/?g11n.enc=ISO-8859-1
user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030314

-*-*-*- Section: Cookies -*-*-*-
ad_user_login: 374!1143947315532!n0FNaqGEUzEgbmmGoHOYBQ== (expires: -1)
JSESSIONID: 3B450F20121913B68313FE3E2DE75141 (expires: -1)

-*-*-*- Section: CCM User -*-*-*-
Party not logged in

-*-*-*- Section: Stack trace -*-*-*-
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at
com.arsdigita.cms.ui.lifecycle.ItemLifecycleItemPane$SummarySection$Properties.properties(ItemLifecycleItemPane.java:88)
	at com.arsdigita.toolbox.ui.PropertyList.generateXML(PropertyList.java:64)
	at com.arsdigita.toolbox.ui.ActionGroup.generateXML(ActionGroup.java:90)
	at com.arsdigita.toolbox.ui.Section.generateXML(Section.java:117)
	at com.arsdigita.bebop.SimpleContainer.generateXML(SimpleContainer.java:245)
	at com.arsdigita.toolbox.ui.ComponentSet.generateXML(ComponentSet.java:79)
	at com.arsdigita.toolbox.ui.LayoutPanel.section(LayoutPanel.java:112)
	at com.arsdigita.toolbox.ui.LayoutPanel.generateXML(LayoutPanel.java:100)
	at com.arsdigita.toolbox.ui.ComponentSet.generateXML(ComponentSet.java:79)
	at com.arsdigita.bebop.TabbedPane.generateXML(TabbedPane.java:444)
	at com.arsdigita.bebop.SimpleContainer.generateXML(SimpleContainer.java:245)
	at com.arsdigita.bebop.Page.generateXML(Page.java:639)
	at com.arsdigita.bebop.Page.buildDocument(Page.java:737)
	at com.arsdigita.cms.dispatcher.CMSPage$1.excurse(CMSPage.java:241)
	at com.arsdigita.cms.CMSExcursion.run(CMSExcursion.java:72)
	at com.arsdigita.cms.dispatcher.CMSPage.dispatch(CMSPage.java:249)
	at org.apache.jsp.item$jsp._jspService(item$jsp.java:96)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:107)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
	at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:201)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:381)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:473)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:683)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:431)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:355)
	at
com.arsdigita.dispatcher.DispatcherHelper.forwardHelper(DispatcherHelper.java:163)
	at
com.arsdigita.dispatcher.DispatcherHelper.forwardRequestByPath(DispatcherHelper.java:192)
	at
com.arsdigita.dispatcher.DispatcherHelper.forwardRequestByPath(DispatcherHelper.java:205)
	at
com.arsdigita.cms.dispatcher.FileDispatcher.chainedDispatch(FileDispatcher.java:61)
	at com.arsdigita.dispatcher.DispatcherChain.dispatch(DispatcherChain.java:74)
	at
com.arsdigita.cms.ContentSectionServlet.doService(ContentSectionServlet.java:135)
	at
com.arsdigita.web.BaseApplicationServlet$1.excurse(BaseApplicationServlet.java:119)
	at com.arsdigita.kernel.KernelExcursion.run(KernelExcursion.java:57)
	at
com.arsdigita.web.BaseApplicationServlet.doService(BaseApplicationServlet.java:113)
	at com.arsdigita.web.BaseServlet$1.excurse(BaseServlet.java:128)
	at com.arsdigita.kernel.KernelExcursion.run(KernelExcursion.java:57)
	at com.arsdigita.web.BaseServlet.internalService(BaseServlet.java:104)
	at com.arsdigita.web.BaseServlet.doGet(BaseServlet.java:199)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:683)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:431)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:355)
	at com.arsdigita.web.BaseDispatcher.forward(BaseDispatcher.java:212)
	at com.arsdigita.web.BaseDispatcher.forward(BaseDispatcher.java:198)
	at com.arsdigita.web.BaseDispatcher.dispatch(BaseDispatcher.java:130)
	at com.arsdigita.web.DispatcherServlet.service(DispatcherServlet.java:136)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:243)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java(Compiled
Code))
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:190)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java(Compiled
Code))
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2347)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java(Compiled
Code))
	at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:170)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java(Compiled
Code))
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:170)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java(Compiled
Code))
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:468)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java(Compiled
Code))
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:174)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java(Compiled
Code))
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
	at
org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java:1027)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1125)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:512)


-*-*-*- Section: Request summary -*-*-*-
Context path: 
Request URI: /ccm/articles/admin/item.jsp
Query string: item_id=400&set_tab=4
Method: GET
Remote user: null

-*-*-*- Section: System properties -*-*-*-
catalina.base: /usr/share/tomcat
catalina.home: /usr/share/tomcat
catalina.useNaming: true
file.encoding: ISO-8859-1
file.encoding.pkg: sun.io
file.separator: /
invokedviajava: 
java.assistive: ON
java.awt.fonts: 
java.awt.graphicsenv: sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment
java.awt.printerjob: sun.awt.motif.PSPrinterJob
java.class.path:
/opt/IBMJava2-131/lib/tools.jar:/var/www/ccm-cms/dist/WEB-INF/lib/jaas.jar:/var/www/ccm-cms/dist/WEB-INF/lib/jce.jar:/var/www/ccm-cms/dist/WEB-INF/lib/sunjce_provider.jar:/var/www/ccm-cms/dist/WEB-INF/lib/xerces.jar:/var/www/ccm-cms/dist/WEB-INF/lib/xalan.jar:/opt/oracle/product/jdbc/lib/classes12.zip:/opt/IBMJava2-131/lib/tools.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar
java.class.version: 46.0
java.compiler: jitc
java.endorsed.dirs: /usr/share/tomcat/bin:/usr/share/tomcat/common/lib
java.ext.dirs: /opt/IBMJava2-131/jre/lib/ext
java.fullversion: J2RE 1.3.1 IBM build cxia32131-20020622 (JIT enabled: jitc)
java.home: /opt/IBMJava2-131/jre
java.io.tmpdir: /usr/share/tomcat/temp
java.library.path:
/opt/IBMJava2-131/jre/bin:/opt/IBMJava2-131/jre/bin/classic:/opt/oracle/product/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib
java.naming.factory.initial: org.apache.naming.java.javaURLContextFactory
java.naming.factory.url.pkgs: org.apache.naming
java.runtime.name: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition
java.runtime.version: 1.3.1
java.specification.name: Java Platform API Specification
java.specification.vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
java.specification.version: 1.3
java.vendor: IBM Corporation
java.vendor.url: http://www.ibm.com/
java.vendor.url.bug: 
java.version: 1.3.1
java.vm.info: J2RE 1.3.1 IBM build cxia32131-20020622 (JIT enabled: jitc)
java.vm.name: Classic VM
java.vm.specification.name: Java Virtual Machine Specification
java.vm.specification.vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
java.vm.specification.version: 1.0
java.vm.vendor: IBM Corporation
java.vm.version: 1.3.1
javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory:
org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl
javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory:
org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl
line.separator: 

org.xml.sax.driver: org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser
os.arch: x86
os.name: Linux
os.version: 2.4.9-e.12
path.separator: :
PreferredXSLTTransformer: XALAN
sun.boot.class.path:
/opt/IBMJava2-131/jre/lib/rt.jar:/opt/IBMJava2-131/jre/lib/i18n.jar:/opt/IBMJava2-131/jre/classes
sun.boot.library.path: /opt/IBMJava2-131/jre/bin
sun.io.unicode.encoding: UnicodeLittle
user.dir: /var/lib/tomcat
user.home: /var/lib/tomcat
user.language: en
user.name: tomcat
user.region: US
user.timezone: America/New_York
vendor: Apache Software Foundation
vendor-url: http://xml.apache.org/xalan
version: 2.1.0
-*-*-*-*-*- End Error Report -*-*-*-*-*-

Comment 1 Jon Orris 2003-04-03 15:50:30 UTC
Should also note this blocks completion of most E-Tester CMS tests.

Comment 2 Justin Ross 2003-04-03 20:40:30 UTC
Fixed in perforce change 29416.

Comment 3 Jon Orris 2003-04-03 23:47:23 UTC
Exact same problem  now occurs when you attempt to Unpublish a published item.


Comment 4 Justin Ross 2003-04-04 19:08:23 UTC
Fixed in perforce change 29489.


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