In windows 7, JBoss 4.2.0 startup failed

[jacksuyu]

I am getting error:

12:19:15,649 WARN  [Catalina] Catalina.start using C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\abc\tmp\server5422489394033096524.xml:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.fatalError(Digester.java:1473)
    at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1562)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:504)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:558)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592)

The C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\abc\tmp\server5422489394033096524.xml file only contains xml header

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

It used to be working in XP, after I copied everything to Windows7 and switch to 64 bit it failed to start.

Any suggestion?

Thanks.

[saltnlight5]

Files under tmp are auto generated by the server at runtime, and they shouldn't needed to restart the previous working jboss server. So would I would try removing tmp directory and have a clean restart of the jboss to see.

[fr33lanc3r]

Rolling to 64bit OS's can have adverse effects on some programs, and not only did you roll to a 64bit but a new OS base (XP to Win7).  If doing the fresh restart of the server, I would recommend doing a reinstall of JBoss, some things might not have been properly updated when you made the big switch.

Also, follow the stack trace, it's there for a reason, and your help.  Apache seems to be kicking an XML error, so it might not even be a problem with JBoss itself.  The error doesn't even touch any of the JBoss methods/instances/packages so you might be having a problem with tomcat/apache and not JBoss at all.  Further into that, it looks like tomcat isn't getting a correct XML file, either there's a processing error in tomcat itself or it is receiving a bad file from JBoss, I would also look into that.

Just some suggestions to look into.

[jacksuyu]

Yes, I have removed tmp directory and restart. The behavior is the same.

[jacksuyu]

Seems I need to do a fresh installation of JBoss on 64 bit machine.

The xml file appears working in XP environment.

Thanks.

[peterj]

Seems I need to do a fresh installation of JBoss on 64 bit machine.

Does this mean that your reinstalled JBoss AS and that it is now working?