Red Hat Certificate System 7.3 pkiconsole java exception for e-mail notifications
Issue
Using the pkiconsole graphical interface from the Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) version 7.3 to configure e-mail notifications may generate a Java null pointer exception in some cases.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 7)
Linux 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux - Red Hat Directory Server 7.1
redhat-ds-7.1SP7-14.RHEL4-i386 - JRE 1.5
1 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java *+ 2 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-ibm/bin/java - Red Hat Certificate System version 7.3
rhpki-java-tools-7.3.0-9.el4 rhpki-console-7.3.0-10.el4 rhpki-common-7.3.0-40.el4 rhpki-manage-7.3.0-12.el4 rhpki-native-tools-7.3.0-5.el4 rhpki-migrate-7.3.0-9.el4 rhpki-util-7.3.0-20.el4 rhpki-ca-7.3.0-17.el4
In this scenario, it is interesting to know about the "client" environment, how is the pkiconsole ran?
For example, it is possible to run the pkiconsole remotely using a vncviewer or ssh -X session.
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