gitblit 1.2.1: Can't start with soft-linked repositories #513
Description
Originally reported on Google Code with ID 217
I want to use gitblit just as (internal) repository viewer. For this, I just soft-linked
existing (readable) git repository into ${baseFolder}/git.
Im using the war version with customized ${baseFolder}.
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Have some existing (bare,readable) git repositories at hand.
2. Soft-link to gitblit installation by 'ln -s <some_repos> ${baseFolder}/git
3. Start bitblit war in tomcat manager (or just restart tomcat).
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect to be able to use gitblit as repository viewer.
But I can't even start it. I encounter the following in the logs of tomcat:
$ less localhost.2013-03-08.log
Mrz 08, 2013 1:37:01 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.gitblit.GitBlit
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.gitblit.GitBlit.addToCachedRepositoryList(GitBlit.java:1099)
at com.gitblit.GitBlit.getRepositoryModel(GitBlit.java:1350)
at com.gitblit.GitBlit.getRepositoryList(GitBlit.java:1203)
at com.gitblit.GitBlit.configureContext(GitBlit.java:3065)
at com.gitblit.GitBlit.contextInitialized(GitBlit.java:3258)
at com.gitblit.GitBlit.contextInitialized(GitBlit.java:3196)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4797)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5291)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.start(ManagerServlet.java:1256)
at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.start(HTMLManagerServlet.java:714)
at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doPost(HTMLManagerServlet.java:219)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:647)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.filters.CsrfPreventionFilter.doFilter(CsrfPreventionFilter.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:108)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:581)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:171)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:99)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:936)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1004)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:589)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:312)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.2.1 war version, debian squeeze, apache-tomcat-7.0.37
Reported by aannoaanno on 2013-03-08 12:48:43