perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

Hello,

I just joined RENATER NREN and I'm currently working on building a VMWare 
image of   
a server using PerfSONAR 1.0 bundle.(LS and RRD MA) The goal of this image is 
to provide easier deployment and maintenance. For those interested I can 
provide the VMWare image... When ready !!  ;-)

Unfortunatly I encounter installation issues ...

Here are the details:

1- I'm using Ubuntu server 6.06 Dapper LTS as linux distribution
2- Java JDK 1.5 is installed using apt repository as specified in 
http://ubuntuguide.org/ wiki
2- Tomcat5 is also installed from repository. (Note that tomcat security 
manager has been disabled) and is working correctly.
3- Axis has been installed and I can see the index page though the 
happyaxis.js script is not "so happy"
4- eXist has been installed and configured up to step 4 (included) as per the 
README 
recommendations.(http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/svn/perfsonar/branches/release/perfsonar/releng/perfSONAR-1.0/Readme.txt)

5- Everything is seems to be OK.

6- However, when I install perfsonar and try to reboot the Virtual Machine 
tomcat refuse to start and log in catalina_YYYYMMDD.log present the folloxing 
message:

...
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:205)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:402)
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /var/lib/tomcat5
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/lib/tomcat5/temp
Using JAVA_HOME:       /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:205)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:402)
...


I'm struggling in finding the error, googling aroung and parsed the perfsonar 
wiki but no luck. I checked the "catalina.properties" but everything seems to 
be OK.

Here is the environement varable sourced in the /etc/profile:

# JAVA
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

export JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre
export PATH=$JRE_HOME/bin:$PATH

export CLASSPATH=.:$CLASSPATH:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/lib

# AXIS
export AXIS_LIB=/usr/share/tomcat5/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib
export AXISCLASSPATH=$AXIS_LIB/axis-ant.jar:
export AXISCLASSPATH=$AXISCLASSPATH:$AXIS_LIB/axis.jar
export AXISCLASSPATH=$AXISCLASSPATH:$AXIS_LIB/commons-discovery-0.2.jar
export AXISCLASSPATH=$AXISCLASSPATH:$AXIS_LIB/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
export AXISCLASSPATH=$AXISCLASSPATH:$AXIS_LIB/jaxrpc.jar
export AXISCLASSPATH=$AXISCLASSPATH:$AXIS_LIB/log4j-1.2.8.jar
export AXISCLASSPATH=$AXISCLASSPATH:$AXIS_LIB/saaj.jar
export AXISCLASSPATH=$AXISCLASSPATH:$AXIS_LIB/wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$AXISCLASSPATH

# eXist
export EXIST_HOME=/usr/local/eXist
export PATH=$EXIST_HOME/bin:$PATH

# PerfSONAR
export PERFSONAR=/usr/local/perfsonar
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$PERFSONAR/contrib/rrdjtool/build


Maybe this is a silly error or I miss something obvious ????

Any ideay ?

Thanks in advance for your support.
Best regards/Frederic LOUI

PS: For Thoes willing to help me I can provide an access to the server.
Here is my Jabber ID: