Shibboleth service not starting.

[Brent Putman]

On 8/15/12 11:43 AM, Dan Webb wrote:
>
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>
>        at org.apache.commons.ssl.OpenSSL.deriveKey(OpenSSL.java:458)
>
>        at org.apache.commons.ssl.OpenSSL.deriveKey(OpenSSL.java:448)
>
>        at
> org.apache.commons.ssl.PKCS8Key.opensslDecrypt(PKCS8Key.java:342)
>
>        at org.apache.commons.ssl.PKCS8Key.<init>(PKCS8Key.java:188)
>
>        at
> org.opensaml.xml.security.SecurityHelper.decodePrivateKey(SecurityHelper.java:466)
>
>        at
> edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.config.security.AbstractCredentialBeanDefinitionParser.parsePrivateKey(AbstractCredentialBeanDefinitionParser.java:129)
>
>        at
> edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.config.security.AbstractX509CredentialBeanDefinitionParser.doParse(AbstractX509CredentialBeanDefinitionParser.java:71)
>
>       
>
>  
>
> This seems to be causing the application not to start up. From what I
> can tell the SSH certificates are all in and correct.
>

>From the above, the problem is with it not being able to parse a private
key.  It's nothing to do with your certificate per se.  Check and verify
the contents of your Credential PrivateKey element(s), and if your
pointing to the private key file on disk, make sure that the file
actually exists and contains a validly represented private key.


> At the same time as receiving the errors below when trying to run
> version.sh
>
> Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
>
>         at
> edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.idp.Version.<clinit>(Version.java:101)
>
> Could not find the main class:
> edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.idp.Version. Program will exit.
>
>  
>
> I thought this was a bug fixed after version 2.0.x and I'm under the
> impression that we're running a much newer version (it was only put in
> last year)
>


I'm not sure on this one.  Make sure you're running the latest version
of the IdP.  And if so and the problem still persists, you are welcome
to file a bug report.

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