Shibboleth IDP startup issue

[Brent Putman]

On 6/13/12 5:24 AM, Chaitana Tigadi wrote:
>
> 14:44:02.045 - INFO
> [edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.config.security.AbstractX509CredentialBeanDefinitionParser:63]
> - Parsing configuration for X509Filesystem credential with id:
> IdPCredential
> 14:44:02.047 - DEBUG
> [edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.config.security.AbstractCredentialBeanDefinitionParser:91]
> - Parsing credential key names
> 14:44:02.048 - DEBUG
> [edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.config.security.AbstractCredentialBeanDefinitionParser:121]
> - Parsing credential private key
> 14:44:02.143 - DEBUG
> [edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.config.security.AbstractX509CredentialBeanDefinitionParser:89]
> - Parsing x509 credential certificates
> 14:44:02.153 - ERROR
> [edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.config.BaseService:188] -
> Configuration was not loaded for
> shibboleth.RelyingPartyConfigurationManager service, error creating
> components.  The root cause of this error was:
> java.lang.NullPointerException: null

>From the above error, looks like the problem is with reading the IdP's
certificate defined in relying-party.xml, specifically in the
security:Certificate child element of the:

<security:Credential id="IdPCredential" xsi:type="security:X509Filesystem">

Either it's pointing to the wrong file, or the file can not be read due
to permissions or something like that.  I'd first check for typos,
correct path and so forth.