Fwd: [Dspace-general] problem submitting items (NullPointerException)

Thu Jun 17 17:39:01 EDT 2004

Jorn -- I'm forwarding your question to the dspace-tech where it has a much 
better chance of being answered (dspace-general is more for functional, 
policy, business, marketing, and other non-technical issues).

MacKenzie

>Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:04:23 +0200
>From: Jörn Nettingsmeier <pol-admin at uni-duisburg.de>
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>hi everyone!
>
>(new to dspace, i hope this is the place for such problems. or should i 
>post to -tech ?)
>
>when trying to submit an item to a collection, i get:
>
>
>********
>
>An internal server error occurred on http://pol-06.uni-duisburg.de/dspace:
>
>Date:       6/17/04 3:37 PM
>Session ID: 4A7FA6D320013F4D9CDF85006E13EAA8
>
>-- URL Was: https://pol-06.uni-duisburg.de/dspace/submit
>-- Method: POST
>-- Parameters were:
>-- submit_next: "Next >"
>-- workspace_item_id: "15"
>-- step: "1"
>
>
>Exception:
>java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at 
> org.apache.jsp.submit.edit_002dmetadata_002d1_jsp._jspService(edit_002dmetadata_002d1_jsp.java:700)
>         at 
> org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:133)
>         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
>         at 
> org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:311)
>         at 
> org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:301)
>         at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:248)
>         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:284)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:204)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:750)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:510)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:445)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:359)
>         at org.dspace.app.webui.util.JSPManager.showJSP(JSPManager.java:97)
>         at 
> org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SubmitServlet.doStep(SubmitServlet.java:1750)
>         at 
> org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SubmitServlet.processInitialQuestions(SubmitServlet.java:632)
>         at 
> org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SubmitServlet.doDSPost(SubmitServlet.java:373)
>         at 
> org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet.processRequest(DSpaceServlet.java:153)
>         at 
> org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet.doPost(DSpaceServlet.java:110)
>         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:763)
>         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:284)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:204)
>         at 
> org.dspace.app.webui.filter.RegisteredOnlyFilter.doFilter(RegisteredOnlyFilter.java:105)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:233)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:204)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:257)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:567)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:245)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:199)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:567)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:184)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:164)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:149)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:567)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:156)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:567)
>         at 
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:972)
>         at 
> org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:206)
>         at 
> org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:339)
>         at 
> org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:415)
>         at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:716)
>         at 
> org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:650)
>         at 
> org.apache.jk.common.SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:829)
>         at 
> org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:688)
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
>
>**********
>
>it "used to work". i could add items w/o problems, but then i deleted an 
>entire (misconfigured) collection to start from scratch, and now i can't 
>submit. dspace version is 1.2-beta2 from sourceforge, os is linux (suse 
>9.1 with 2.6.5 kernel on dual ia32).
>
>any ideas welcome, tia,
>
>jörn
>
>
>--
>Jörn Nettingsmeier, EDV-Administrator
>Institut für Politikwissenschaft
>Universität Duisburg-Essen, Standort Duisburg
>Mail: pol-admin at uni-duisburg.de, Telefon: 0203/379-2736
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