Jenkins server returns 500 error

Question

Having just installed jenkins on a debian 64bits lenny distro I started the server but when I connect to it I get the error:

Status Code: 500
Exception: The error below occurred during context initialisation, so no further requests can be processed:

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.90)
   at hudson.WebAppMain.installLogger(WebAppMain.java:252)
   at hudson.WebAppMain.contextInitialized(WebAppMain.java:106)
   at winstone.WebAppConfiguration.(WebAppConfiguration.java:889)
   at winstone.HostConfiguration.initWebApp(HostConfiguration.java:131)
   at winstone.HostConfiguration.(HostConfiguration.java:73)
   at winstone.HostGroup.initHost(HostGroup.java:85)
   at winstone.HostGroup.(HostGroup.java:45)
   at winstone.Launcher.(Launcher.java:196)
   at winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:391)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(libgcj.so.90)
   at Main._main(Main.java:212)
   at Main.main(Main.java:61)
Caused by: com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream$InitializationException: Could not instantiate converter : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.extended.DurationConverter : null
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.dynamicallyRegisterConverter(XStream.java:735)
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.setupConverters(XStream.java:699)
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.(XStream.java:445)
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.(XStream.java:385)
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.(XStream.java:323)
   at hudson.util.XStream2.(XStream2.java:62)
   at hudson.model.Hudson.(Hudson.java:3656)
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.90)
   ...12 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
   at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(libgcj.so.90)
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.dynamicallyRegisterConverter(XStream.java:728)
   ...19 more
Caused by: javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeConfigurationException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gnu.xml.datatype.JAXPDatatypeFactory
   at javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory.newInstance(libgcj.so.90)
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.extended.DurationConverter.(DurationConverter.java:33)
   at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(libgcj.so.90)
   ...20 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gnu.xml.datatype.JAXPDatatypeFactory
   at java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.90)
   at javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory.newInstance(libgcj.so.90)
   ...22 more


Stacktrace:

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.90)
   at hudson.WebAppMain.installLogger(WebAppMain.java:252)
   at hudson.WebAppMain.contextInitialized(WebAppMain.java:106)
   at winstone.WebAppConfiguration.(WebAppConfiguration.java:889)
   at winstone.HostConfiguration.initWebApp(HostConfiguration.java:131)
   at winstone.HostConfiguration.(HostConfiguration.java:73)
   at winstone.HostGroup.initHost(HostGroup.java:85)
   at winstone.HostGroup.(HostGroup.java:45)
   at winstone.Launcher.(Launcher.java:196)
   at winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:391)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(libgcj.so.90)
   at Main._main(Main.java:212)
   at Main.main(Main.java:61)
Caused by: com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream$InitializationException: Could not instantiate converter : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.extended.DurationConverter : null
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.dynamicallyRegisterConverter(XStream.java:735)
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.setupConverters(XStream.java:699)
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.(XStream.java:445)
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.(XStream.java:385)
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.(XStream.java:323)
   at hudson.util.XStream2.(XStream2.java:62)
   at hudson.model.Hudson.(Hudson.java:3656)
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.90)
   ...12 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
   at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(libgcj.so.90)
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.dynamicallyRegisterConverter(XStream.java:728)
   ...19 more
Caused by: javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeConfigurationException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gnu.xml.datatype.JAXPDatatypeFactory
   at javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory.newInstance(libgcj.so.90)
   at com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.extended.DurationConverter.(DurationConverter.java:33)
   at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(libgcj.so.90)
   ...20 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gnu.xml.datatype.JAXPDatatypeFactory
   at java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.90)
   at javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory.newInstance(libgcj.so.90)
   ...22 more


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Any sugestions on how I can resolve this ?

Best regards, FR

Solution

I confirm that

aptitude install openjdk-6-jdk

solved my problem and my remaining issue is with the apache proxy to jenkins.

using lynx localhost:8080 I saw that jenkins was now working

Thanks for your help

Comments

[René Höhle]

How have you installed it? Over the debian repos? Or have you downloaded the .war file and put it to Tomcat?

[Fernando André]

I installed it using the jenkins source. deb pkg.jenkins-ci.org/debian binary/

[Priyanjan]

Do you have any plugins installed and removed? I've found that installing lots of plugins to test tends to leave the "cruft" around in configuration files in $JENKINS_HOME, and even if the plugin is deleted/disabled it'll still try to parse those configuration elements - rarely, but occasionally with disastrous results.

[Fernando André]

aptitude install openjdk-6-jdk installed this and got a diferent error... Status Code: 500 Exception: Stacktrace: org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException: jar:file:/var/run/jenkins/war/WEB-INF/lib/jenkins-core-1.403‌​.jar!/lib/layout/lay‌​out.jelly:92:54: java.util.ConcurrentModificationException at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.handleException(TagS‌​cript.java:709) at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:2‌​82) at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.ja‌​va:95)