SEVERE error: Unable to create a new IdenityAdapter

Question

My Geoportal installation has stopped working this afternoon having previously worked fine for about a month, I haven't made any change to the config or the user setup and have no idea what could have broken it. Now whenever I try to login it returns to the home page with a Welcome banner but hasn't actually logged in at all. Also the Registration link is now missing too. In the log file there is the following error (note: the spelling mistake in IdentityAdapter is how it is in the log file...):

18-Jul-2011 16:59:30 com.esri.gpt.framework.context.ApplicationConfiguration newIdentityAdapter
SEVERE: Unable to create a new IdenityAdapter.
com.esri.gpt.framework.context.ConfigurationException: The identity adapter class name was not properly configured.

In addition to this if you try a searching having supposedly logged in you get this error messages:

Could not get a csw search engine: Did not get key = local in repository com.esri.gpt.framework.context.ConfigurationException: A databaseReference has not been configured for connectionTag:
    Could not perform operation.

I've tried restarting all of the services, readding the webapp and I can still connect to the LDAP server and see the users okay and also the database.

PeterBaldwin · Answer

Thanks Clive, it looks like the XML file was corrupt. There was a blank line at the start, once I removed the blank line it starting working okay again.

Thanks again for your help,

Peter.

CliveReece · Answer

So it looks like it gets to loading the geoportal configuration file (gpt.xml) and then soils its pants:"FINE: Loading configuration file: gpt/config/gpt.xml
21-Jul-2011 14:57:21 com.esri.gpt.framework.context.ApplicationContext loadConfiguration
SEVERE: An error occured while loading the application configuration.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The processing instruction target matching "[xyz][mM][lL]" is not allowed."

I think it would be worth checking if your gpt.xml got corrupted.  The error message looks as if it is interpreting "xml" in the gpt.xml first line as a processing instruction rather than being an XML declaration.  The gpt.xml file should start:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Essentially, can you confirm that the gpt.xml file contains "well-formed" xml?

PeterBaldwin · Answer

Hi Clive,

I've stopped the Tomcat service and cleared the log file and then started it again, this is what is in the log file initially before starting the browser:

21-Jul-2011 14:57:20 com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener contextInitialized
INFO: Initializing Mojarra 2.0.3 (FCS b03) for context '/geoportal'
21-Jul-2011 14:57:21 org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet initChain
INFO: Loading chain catalog from jar:file:/C:/Program%20Files/Apache%20Software%20Foundation/Tomcat%206.0/webapps/geoportal/WEB-INF/lib/struts-tiles-1.3.10.jar!/org/apache/struts/tiles/chain-config.xml
21-Jul-2011 14:57:21 org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin initDefinitionsFactory
INFO: Tiles definition factory loaded for module ''.
21-Jul-2011 14:57:21 com.esri.gpt.framework.context.InitializationServlet init
INFO: Initializing ApplicationContext...
21-Jul-2011 14:57:21 com.esri.gpt.framework.context.ApplicationConfigurationLoader load
FINE: Loading configuration file: gpt/config/gpt.xml
21-Jul-2011 14:57:21 com.esri.gpt.framework.context.ApplicationContext loadConfiguration
SEVERE: An error occured while loading the application configuration.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The processing instruction target matching "[xyz][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
 at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
 at com.esri.gpt.framework.xml.DomUtil.makeDomFromSource(Unknown Source)
 at com.esri.gpt.framework.xml.DomUtil.makeDomFromResourcePath(Unknown Source)
 at com.esri.gpt.framework.context.ApplicationConfigurationLoader.load(Unknown Source)
 at com.esri.gpt.framework.context.ApplicationContext.loadConfiguration(Unknown Source)
 at com.esri.gpt.framework.context.ApplicationContext.getInstance(Unknown Source)
 at com.esri.gpt.framework.context.InitializationServlet.init(Unknown Source)
 at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1173)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:993)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4420)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4733)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:601)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:943)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:778)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:504)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1315)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:324)
 at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1061)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
21-Jul-2011 14:57:21 com.esri.gpt.framework.context.InitializationServlet init
SEVERE: Initialization failed.
com.esri.gpt.framework.context.ConfigurationException: A databaseReference has not been configured for connectionTag: 
 at com.esri.gpt.framework.sql.ConnectionBroker.returnConnection(Unknown Source)
 at com.esri.gpt.framework.sql.BaseDao.returnConnection(Unknown Source)
 at com.esri.gpt.catalog.harvest.jobs.HjResetRunningRequest.execute(Unknown Source)
 at com.esri.gpt.control.webharvest.engine.Harvester.resetRunning(Unknown Source)
 at com.esri.gpt.control.webharvest.engine.Harvester.init(Unknown Source)
 at com.esri.gpt.framework.context.InitializationServlet.init(Unknown Source)
 at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1173)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:993)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4420)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4733)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:601)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:943)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:778)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:504)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1315)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:324)
 at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1061)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
 at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)

It doesn't look like it is connecting to the database but this worked fine before and I've checked the Installation guide section 7 and re-configured this just in case but still no luck. Do you think this might be the problem?

Thanks,

Peter.