Why does RHN Satellite not start after being installed on a system with network users & groups?
Issue
Errors in tomcat log after Satellite 5.3 install.
Message in catalina.out tomcat log file :
2010-02-26 04:03:54,778 [main] ERROR org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/rhn] - Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.redhat.rhn.webapp.RhnServletListener
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.redhat.rhn.common.conf.Config.getFiles(Config.java:403)
at com.redhat.rhn.common.conf.Config.addPath(Config.java:123)
at com.redhat.rhn.common.conf.Config.<init>(Config.java:113)
at com.redhat.rhn.common.conf.Config.get(Config.java:133)
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Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3
- Network Authentication -Users & Groups (Not certain if LDAP or NIS as client would not disclose)
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