Bug#955530: tomcat9: ipa-server-install fails due to servlet crash

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 02/04/2020 à 05:30, Timo Aaltonen a écrit :

> ipa-server-install (from freeipa-server) started failing within the last few weeks,
> I don't know exactly when but it's a regression in sid, Ubuntu focal is still fine.
> 
> Redhat folks said this would've been due to openjdk-8-jre being built with gcc10, but the latest
> version isn't anymore, and I've tried older versions from snapsho.d.o and they didn't help.
> I've also tried downgrading dogtag-pki but that didn't help either.
> 
> 2020-04-01 14:35:35 [main] SEVERE: Unable to start CMS engine: null
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at com.netscape.ca.CRLIssuingPoint.initConfig(CRLIssuingPoint.java:764)
>         at com.netscape.ca.CRLIssuingPoint.init(CRLIssuingPoint.java:497)
>         at com.netscape.ca.CertificateAuthority.initCRL(CertificateAuthority.java:2304)
>         at com.netscape.ca.CertificateAuthority.init(CertificateAuthority.java:633)
>         at com.netscape.cmscore.apps.CMSEngine.initSubsystem(CMSEngine.java:824)
>         at com.netscape.cmscore.apps.CMSEngine.initSubsystems(CMSEngine.java:799)
>         at com.netscape.cmscore.apps.CMSEngine.initSubsystems(CMSEngine.java:791)
>         at com.netscape.cmscore.apps.CMSEngine.init(CMSEngine.java:468)
>         at com.netscape.cms.servlet.base.CMSStartServlet.init(CMSStartServlet.java:113)
>         at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)

Hi Timo,

Why do you think this is related to tomcat9?

Emmanuel Bourg