We noticed that our confluence failed to come up that the application had crashed. Here's what we had in the log files:
2006-11-03 10:44:51,416 ERROR [opensymphony.webwork.dispatcher.VelocityResult] doExecute Unable to render Velocity Template, '/users/viewuserprofile.vm'
org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'getSpace' in class com.atlassian.confluence.user.actions.ViewUserProfileAction threw exception class java.lang.NullPointerException : null
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.PropertyExecutor.execute(PropertyExecutor.java:188)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIdentifier.execute(ASTIdentifier.java:226)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:207)
....................
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
caused by:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.atlassian.confluence.user.actions.AbstractUserProfileAction.getPersonalSpaceKey(AbstractUserProfileAction.java:425)
at com.atlassian.confluence.user.actions.AbstractUserProfileAction.getSpace(AbstractUserProfileAction.java:420)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor2403.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
...........................
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
2006-11-03 10:44:51,428 ERROR [opensymphony.webwork.dispatcher.ServletDispatcher] serviceAction Could not execute action
org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'getSpace' in class com.atlassian.confluence.user.actions.ViewUserProfileAction threw exception class java.lang.NullPointerException : null
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.PropertyExecutor.execute(PropertyExecutor.java:188)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIdentifier.execute(ASTIdentifier.java:226)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:207)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.evaluate(ASTReference.java:337)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTNotNode.evaluate(ASTNotNode.java:85)
.................................
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
caused by:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.atlassian.confluence.user.actions.AbstractUserProfileAction.getPersonalSpaceKey(AbstractUserProfileAction.java:425)
at com.atlassian.confluence.user.actions.AbstractUserProfileAction.getSpace(AbstractUserProfileAction.java:420)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor2403.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.PropertyExecutor.execute(PropertyExecutor.java:154)
.....................................
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
2006-11-03 10:44:51,434 ERROR [[Catalina].[localhost].[/wiki].[action]] invoke Servlet.service() for servlet action threw exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException
at org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade.sendError(ResponseFacade.java:404)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper.sendError(HttpServletResponseWrapper.java:107)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper.sendError(HttpServletResponseWrapper.java:107)
.........................................
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
2006-11-03 10:44:51,438 WARN [confluence.servlet.simpledisplay.SimpleDisplayServlet] doGet Error while parsing path /~Unknown
java.lang.IllegalStateException
at org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade.sendError(ResponseFacade.java:404)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper.sendError(HttpServletResponseWrapper.java:107)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper.sendError(HttpServletResponseWrapper.java:107)
...................................
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
2006-11-03 10:44:51,442 ERROR [[Catalina].[localhost].[/wiki].[simple-display]] invoke Servlet.service() for servlet simple-display threw exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException
at org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade.sendError(ResponseFacade.java:404)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper.sendError(HttpServletResponseWrapper.java:107)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper.sendError(HttpServletResponseWrapper.java:107)
.....................................
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)