This has now been fixed for the 1.3 release. It was actually a little tricky with Maven 2

Bob,

Some quick background on this issue, it was discovered via our private Crowd instance and was never actually replicated except for on the live instance.

I was still able to work out what the fix for the issue was (see above). But the underlying problem is that XFire (the SOAP framework in Crowd) is trying to create an exception fault and is failing. So something went bad (perhaps a failed authentication) and then Crowd failed to report the problem to the client (e.g. JIRA) because it failed to create the SOAP fault.

An upgrade to the following library: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/woodstox/wstx-asl/3.2.3/ will fix this issue.

Justin

I am seeing this on 1.2.2 using Java 1.6. What does this error mean to Crowd?

14:58:25,470 ERROR org.codehaus.xfire.handler.DefaultFaultHandler: Could not send fault.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't overwrite cause
at java.lang.Throwable.initCause(Throwable.java:320)
at com.ctc.wstx.compat.Jdk14Impl.setInitCause(Jdk14Impl.java:70)
at com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxException.<init>(WstxException.java:46)
at com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxIOException.<init>(WstxIOException.java:16)
at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BaseStreamWriter.writeCharacters(BaseStreamWriter.java:505)
at org.codehaus.xfire.fault.Soap11FaultSerializer.writeMessage(Soap11FaultSerializer.java:148)
at org.codehaus.xfire.fault.SoapFaultSerializer.writeMessage(SoapFaultSerializer.java:41)
at org.codehaus.xfire.soap.SoapSerializer.writeMessage(SoapSerializer.java:80)
at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.HttpChannel.writeWithoutAttachments(HttpChannel.java:56)
at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireServletChannel.sendViaServlet(XFireServletChannel.java:87)
at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireServletChannel.send(XFireServletChannel.java:44)
at org.codehaus.xfire.fault.FaultSender.invoke(FaultSender.java:37)
at org.codehaus.xfire.handler.HandlerPipeline.invoke(HandlerPipeline.java:131)
at org.codehaus.xfire.handler.DefaultFaultHandler.sendFault(DefaultFaultHandler.java:88)
at org.codehaus.xfire.handler.DefaultFaultHandler.invoke(DefaultFaultHandler.java:51)
at org.codehaus.xfire.service.binding.ServiceInvocationHandler$1.run(ServiceInvocationHandler.java:99)
at org.codehaus.xfire.service.binding.ServiceInvocationHandler.execute(ServiceInvocationHandler.java:134)
at org.codehaus.xfire.service.binding.ServiceInvocationHandler.invoke(ServiceInvocationHandler.java:109)
at org.codehaus.xfire.handler.HandlerPipeline.invoke(HandlerPipeline.java:131)
at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.DefaultEndpoint.onReceive(DefaultEndpoint.java:64)
at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.AbstractChannel.receive(AbstractChannel.java:38)
at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireServletController.invoke(XFireServletController.java:304)
at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireServletController.doService(XFireServletController.java:129)
at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireServlet.doPost(XFireServlet.java:116)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter.doFilterInternal(OpenSessionInViewFilter.java:198)
at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:75)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at com.atlassian.core.filters.gzip.GzipFilter.doFilter(GzipFilter.java:55)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:874)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

The error being shown in our log files, WSTX is a dependency of XFire

21:32:36,973 ERROR codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireServletController: Couldn't invoke servlet request.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't overwrite cause
	at java.lang.Throwable.initCause(Throwable.java:320)
	at com.ctc.wstx.compat.Jdk14Impl.setInitCause(Jdk14Impl.java:70)
	at com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxException.<init>(WstxException.java:46)
	at com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxIOException.<init>(WstxIOException.java:16)
	at com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxInputFactory.doCreateSR(WstxInputFactory.java:536)
	at com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxInputFactory.createSR(WstxInputFactory.java:592)
	at com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxInputFactory.createSR(WstxInputFactory.java:617)
	at com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxInputFactory.createXMLStreamReader(WstxInputFactory.java:312)
	at org.codehaus.xfire.util.STAXUtils.createXMLStreamReader(STAXUtils.java:762)
	at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireServletController.invoke(XFireServletController.java:297)
	at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireServletController.doService(XFireServletController.java:129)
	at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireServlet.doPost(XFireServlet.java:116)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter.doFilterInternal(OpenSessionInViewFilter.java:198)
	at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:75)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
	at com.atlassian.core.filters.gzip.GzipFilter.doFilter(GzipFilter.java:55)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:210)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)