attempting to go into Borland's BKN

system deteriorated with the attached error description:
Cause:
java.lang.NullPointerException

Stack Trace: [hide]

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.SecurityFilter.getSecurityConfig(SecurityFilter.java:196)
at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.SecurityFilter.getAuthenticationContext(SecurityFilter.java:202)
at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:187)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.LoginFilter.doFilter(LoginFilter.java:181)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.atlassian.johnson.filters.JohnsonFilter.doFilter(JohnsonFilter.java:96)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter.doFilterInternal(OpenSessionInViewFilter.java:170)
at bucket.custom.FlushingSpringSessionInViewFilter.doFilterInternal(FlushingSpringSessionInViewFilter.java:31)
at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:73)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.atlassian.util.profiling.filters.ProfilingFilter.doFilter(ProfilingFilter.java:122)
at com.atlassian.confluence.util.error.ProfilingAndErrorFilter.doFilter(ProfilingAndErrorFilter.java:27)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.atlassian.core.filters.gzip.GzipFilter.doFilter(GzipFilter.java:61)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractEncodingFilter.doFilter(AbstractEncodingFilter.java:37)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:199)
at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:282)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:754)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:684)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:876)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Referer URL: Unknown

Build Information:
Confluence Home: E:\BKN\bknHome\wikiHome
Uptime: 1 day, 1 hour, 57 minutes, 48 seconds
Version: 2.2.8
Build Number: 525

Server Information:
Application Server: Apache Tomcat/5.5.17
Servlet Version: 2.4
Database Dialect: net.sf.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect

Memory Information:
Total Memory: 430 MB
Free Memory: 49 MB
Used Memory: 381 MB

System Information:
System Date: Tuesday, 03 Oct 2006
System Time: 12:30:15
System Favourite Colour: Taupe
Java Version: 1.5.0_07
Java Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
JVM Version: 1.0
JVM Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
JVM Implementation Version: 1.5.0_07-b03
Java Runtime: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition
Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
User Name: SYSTEM
User Timezone: America/Los_Angeles
Operating System: Windows 2003 5.2
OS Architecture: x86
Filesystem Encoding: Cp1252

Request
Information:
URL: http://bkn.borland.com/confluence/500page.jsp

• Scheme: http
• Server: bkn.borland.com
• Port: 80
• URI: /confluence/500page.jsp
• - Context Path: /confluence
• - Servlet Path: /500page.jsp
• - Path Info: null
• - Query String: null

Attributes:

• javax.servlet.forward.request_uri : /confluence/display/BORL/Home
• javax.servlet.forward.context_path : /confluence
• javax.servlet.forward.servlet_path : /display
• javax.servlet.forward.path_info : /500page.jsp
• javax.servlet.error.exception : java.lang.NullPointerException
• javax.servlet.error.message :
• os_securityfilter_already_filtered : true
• com.atlassian.johnson.filters.JohnsonFilter_already_filtered : true
• _sitemesh_using_stream : false
• javax.servlet.error.request_uri : /confluence/display/BORL/Home
• javax.servlet.error.status_code : 500
• _sitemesh_filterapplied : true
• javax.servlet.error.servlet_name : simple-display
• webwork.valueStack : com.opensymphony.xwork.util.OgnlValueStack@e26d50
• loginfilter.already.filtered : true
• atlassian.core.seraph.original.url : /display/BORL/Home
• sessioninview.FILTERED : true
• com.atlassian.core.filters.gzip.GzipFilter_already_filtered : true

Parameters:

Logging:
0 log statements generated by this request.