Adding Users

[davemil]

I've now discovered that I cannot add new users to the portal.

I can use both the "user" and "admin" pre-set users, however on adding my own users and then logging in as a one of them I get the following exception thrown :

19:06:58,141 ERROR [CoyoteAdapter] An exception or error occurred in the contain
er during the request processing
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1156)
 at java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1080)
 at org.apache.catalina.realm.GenericPrincipal.<init>(GenericPrincipal.ja
va:77)
 at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JBossGenericPrincipal.<init>(JBossGener
icPrincipal.java:56)
 at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JBossSecurityMgrRealm.getCachingPrincpa
l(JBossSecurityMgrRealm.java:379)
 at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JBossSecurityMgrRealm.authenticate(JBos
sSecurityMgrRealm.java:244)
 at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.authenticate(Form
Authenticator.java:256)
 at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(Authentica
torBase.java:391)
 at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValv
e.java:59)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.j
ava:126)
 at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.j
ava:105)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineVal
ve.java:107)
 at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.jav
a:148)
 at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java
:856)
 at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.proce
ssConnection(Http11Protocol.java:744)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpo
int.java:527)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.MasterSlaveWorkerThread.run(MasterSlaveWor
kerThread.java:112)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Help sought - Thanks in advance

David

[davemil]

I forgot to say I'm using the out of the box version of the portal : jboss-portal-2.0-RC2-jboss-4.0.2 (bundles with forums) using the bundled hsql database, running on winXP with java1.5 jvm.

David

[theute]

You probably have a user in no role, if you can, just delete server/default/data (all the data of Jboss portal will be created again)