Wildfire Beta 3 - crashing on entering login details at admin console

I’‘m running the Beta 3 on a NT 4 Server SP6a with MySQL ver 5 and if I install the software, start it as a service the first time, it’'s all fine.

If I subsequently stop and restart the service, Wifi crashes when I enter the admin details on the login screen.

Below is the detail from the admin-console log:

16:41:18.273 WARN!! [SunJsseListener0-0] org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:589) >11> /server-stopped.jsp:

java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:57)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplica tionHandler.java:821)

at org.jivesoftware.util.LocaleFilter.doFilter(LocaleFilter.java:72)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplica tionHandler.java:821)

at org.jivesoftware.util.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingF ilter.java:41)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplica tionHandler.java:821)

at org.jivesoftware.admin.PluginFilter.doFilter(PluginFilter.java:69)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplica tionHandler.java:821)

at org.jivesoftware.admin.AuthCheckFilter.doFilter(AuthCheckFilter.java:98)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplica tionHandler.java:821)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.dispatch(WebApplicationHandler. java:471)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:568)

at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1530)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.handle(WebApplicationContext.ja va:633)

at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1482)

at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:909)

at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:816)

at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:982)

at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:833)

at org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:244)

at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:357)

at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:534)

Hope this is of some help.

If I uninstall and reinstall the app, the same thing happens.

Martyn

Get off NT 4.0 and install 2003 server!

The intention is to move this onto Redhat Linux or CentOS.