[Dspace-general] nullpointer on submission

[Powell, Jared]

Hello.  
I am having trouble with a recently installed version of dSpace.  I am
running Tomcat server on RHEL with Java jdk 1.5 and when I submit to a
collection I receive the NullPointerException (see stack trace below).  Any
help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Jared 

-- Method: POST 
-- Parameters were: 
-- submit_next: "Next >" 
-- workspace_item_id: "12" 
-- step: "1" 
-- multiple_titles: "true" 


Exception: 
java.lang.NullPointerException 
        at
org.apache.jsp.submit.edit_002dmetadata_jsp.doOneBox(edit_002dmetadata_jsp.j
ava:461) 
        at
org.apache.jsp.submit.edit_002dmetadata_jsp._jspService(edit_002dmetadata_js
p.java:1070) 
        at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98) 
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) 
        at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:3
31) 
        at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:329) 
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)

        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) 
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Application
FilterChain.java:269) 
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterCh
ain.java:188) 
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.
java:691) 
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDis
patcher.java:469) 
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatch
er.java:403) 
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher
.java:301) 
        at org.dspace.app.webui.util.JSPManager.showJSP(JSPManager.java:91) 
        at
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SubmitServlet.showProgressAwareJSP(SubmitServle
t.java:2053) 
        at
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SubmitServlet.doStep(SubmitServlet.java:1824) 
        at
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SubmitServlet.processInitialQuestions(SubmitSer
vlet.java:657) 
        at
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SubmitServlet.doDSPost(SubmitServlet.java:389) 
        at
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet.processRequest(DSpaceServlet.java
:147) 
        at
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet.doPost(DSpaceServlet.java:105) 
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710) 
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) 
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Application
FilterChain.java:269) 
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterCh
ain.java:188) 
        at
org.dspace.app.webui.filter.RegisteredOnlyFilter.doFilter(RegisteredOnlyFilt
er.java:98) 
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Application
FilterChain.java:215) 
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterCh
ain.java:188) 
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.ja
va:213) 
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.ja
va:174) 
        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:151) 
        at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:874) 
        at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processC
onnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)

        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.jav
a:528) 
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWo
rkerThread.java:81) 
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.jav
a:689) 
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)