Register link results in exception on new install

dpengel3 · July 6, 2017, 5:28am

I’ve installed XWiki on my home server. Everything seemed to go well, the initial flavor got created, the home page looks nice. But when I log out as admin and click “Register” to create a new user, I get a page with the following:

    HTTP ERROR 500

Problem accessing /xwiki/bin/register/XWiki/XWikiRegister. Reason:

    Server Error

Caused by:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.xpn.xwiki.web.RegisterAction
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
	at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)
	at org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.applicationInstance(RequestUtils.java:172)
	at org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.applicationInstance(RequestUtils.java:147)
	at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionCreate(RequestProcessor.java:281)
	at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:221)
	at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1913)
	at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:449)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:687)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:841)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1650)
	at com.xpn.xwiki.web.ActionFilter.doFilter(ActionFilter.java:112)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1637)
	at org.xwiki.wysiwyg.server.filter.ConversionFilter.doFilter(ConversionFilter.java:127)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1637)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.server.WebSocketUpgradeFilter.doFilter(WebSocketUpgradeFilter.java:206)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1637)
	at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetHTTPHeaderFilter.doFilter(SetHTTPHeaderFilter.java:63)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1637)
	at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java:208)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1637)
	at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:111)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1637)
	at org.xwiki.resource.servlet.RoutingFilter.doFilter(RoutingFilter.java:134)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1629)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:533)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:190)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1595)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:188)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1253)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:168)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:473)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1564)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:166)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1155)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:219)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:126)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:564)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:317)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:251)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:279)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:110)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$2.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:124)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.Invocable.invokePreferred(Invocable.java:128)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.Invocable$InvocableExecutor.invoke(Invocable.java:222)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:294)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:199)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:673)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:591)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

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Any ideas? What can I check? What might I have missed?

Thank you in advance for any help!

vmassol · July 6, 2017, 7:47am

Trying to reproduce now…

vmassol · July 6, 2017, 8:16am

ok I’ve tested on a clean 9.5.1 and it’s working fine.

Seems you have some incorrect installation. Maybe you could tell us how you installed it or try to reinstall it?

dpengel3 · July 6, 2017, 12:34pm

Start with:
- Arch Linux
- Java8 installed
- Jetty installed
- PostgreSQL installed

Download xwiki-9.5.1.war
mkdir JETTY_HOME/webapps/xwiki
cd JETTY_HOME/webapps/xwiki
unzip xwiki-9.5.1.war
Create db and user, add user grants per xwiki install directions for postgresql
Comment hsqldb section and uncomment postgresql section in hibernate.cfg.xml
Download postgresql-42.1.1.jar jdbc library and copy it to JETTY_HOME/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib
mkdir JETTY_HOME/webapps/xwiki/persist
Set environment.permanentDirectory to JETTY_HOME/webapps/xwiki/persist
chown -R jetty.jetty JETTY_HOME/webapps/xwiki
Start jetty
Browse to http://host:8080/xwiki
Follow Distribution Wizard prompts
Get a nice looking home/dashboard
Log out
Open the drawer in the top right
Click “Register”

That’s when that stuff shows up.

I’ve been through the installation twice. Could it be something in the Jetty installation? Where would I look to start troubleshooting?

dpengel3 · July 6, 2017, 2:42pm

I figured it out. I’m running this on a headless server, so there’s no X11 system installed. However, to generate some of the content, there’s an expectation of real X11 font files, since some of the AWT stuff relies on those. Their absence was causing a problem.

I just installed the type1 fonts (and all dependencies) and it seems to work.