Anyone seen this 4.6-911 "bug" ? (AD authentication + application mapping)

Question

Hi there,
After using 4.5 for some time we started to play with 4.6-911
The funny thing I see is that applications do not get visible on the webtop, despite beeing configured correctly. Initially it DID work (few hours before I wrote this mail)
We are authentication against AD.
As you can see in the debug-logs. the Webtop generator DOES get a match for a some application for this user the first time. However, the next event seems to differ.
The netto result is that after login, this user has no application at all visible on the Webtop.
Why these 2 concurrent events and not just 1 ?
2011/04/19 12:52:20.858 (pid 4279) server/webtop/info #1303217540858
The LDAP Webtop generator matched the following apps (taking 458ms)
user: CN=John Tester,CN=Users,DC=rms,DC=mycompany,DC=com
o=applications/cn=XP Desktop => Matched group name cn=ssccdn,cn=users,dc=rms,dc=mycompany,dc=com
o=applications/cn=Checkpoint SmartDashboard R70 => Matched group name cn=ssccdn,cn=users,dc=rms,dc=mycompany,dc=com
2011/04/19 12:52:20.860 (pid 4279) server/webtop/moreinfo #1303217540860
The LDAP Webtop generator did not match the following apps
user: CN=John Tester,CN=Users,DC=rms,DC=mycompany,DC=com
However, when logged in as "John Tester" and pressing the "Edit" button, then "Edit Groups" you can "organise" you applications/content in groups (if you allow this)
Logged in as John, I indeed see the application that I normally am entitled to run and I can group them but they never show up on the left pane in the browser!
It did work today for me, 2 hours before I noticed it for the first time. I tried clearing any LDAP caches and restarting services etc, no luck...
This does dissapoint me a bit. These are basic features that actually worked on Sun SGD4.5 and the first Oracle SGD4.6 release seems buggy on these essential features ?
Any hints on such weird behaviour ?? Perhaps I missed out on something essential ?
Thanks!
Jan

Answer 1

Indeed Dean...also an exception...
I got a session-cookie:
Namespace: webtopsession
Method: authenticate
Parameters
Request XML
*<Not recorded>*
Response XML
Parses (ResponseParser): OK
Parses (GeneralParser): OK
*<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><tta:response xmlns:tta="http://xml.tarantella.com/2001/soapreply.xsd">*
*<attr name="scottasessioncookie">-2180195385926657032:sgd1.rms.mycompany.com:1303379409662:1957771471478159839:1</attr>*
*<attr name="isadministrator">false</attr>*
*<attr name="scottatheme">sco/tta/standard</attr>*
*<attr name="cn">TheUser</attr>*
*<attr name="arrayMember">sgd1.rms.mycompany.com</attr>*
*<obj name="serverattributes">*
*<attr name="scottasessionid">sgd1.rms.mycompany.com:1303379409662:1957771471478159839</attr>*
*<attr name="scottasessiontemplateowner">.../_ens/o=Tarantella System Objects/cn=LDAP Profile</attr>*
*<attr name="scottasessionowner">.../_service/sco/tta/ldapcache/CN=TheUser,CN=Users,DC=rms,DC=mycompany,DC=com</attr>*
*</obj>*
*</tta:response>*
---Below the exception output after step6----
Namespace: webtop
Method: searchWebtopContent
Parameters
Admin Session Cookie: -2180195385926657032:sgd1.rms.mycompany.com:1303379409662:1957771471478159839:1
Searchspec: (objectclass=)*
Attribute: localattributes
Request XML
Unavailable
Fault Reported
Code: Server.Exception
String: java.lang.NullPointerException: Caught exception from SOAP method: webtopcontent->searchwebtopcontent()
Details(count): 1
java.lang.NullPointerException
*     at com.sco.tta.server.soapcommands.WebtopContent.getDynamicHostFromGroup(WebtopContent.java:678)*
*     at com.sco.tta.server.soapcommands.WebtopContent.addDynamicHost(WebtopContent.java:635)*
*     at com.sco.tta.server.soapcommands.WebtopContent.handleDynamicObjects(WebtopContent.java:586)*
*     at com.sco.tta.server.soapcommands.WebtopContent.addAttributes(WebtopContent.java:434)*
*     at com.sco.tta.server.soapcommands.WebtopContent.access$200(WebtopContent.java:63)*
*     at com.sco.tta.server.soapcommands.WebtopContent$XMLWebtop.generateXML(WebtopContent.java:1297)*
*     at com.sco.tta.server.soapcommands.WebtopContent.doSearch(WebtopContent.java:350)*
*     at com.sco.tta.server.soapcommands.WebtopContent.searchWebtopContent(WebtopContent.java:158)*
*     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)*
*     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)*
*     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)*
*     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)*
*     at com.sco.tta.server.server.soap.SOAPControlledElement.invoke(SOAPControlledElement.java:127)*
*     at com.sco.tta.server.server.soap.SOAPController.invoke(SOAPController.java:252)*
*     at com.sco.tta.server.server.soap.SOAPCalcTask.processEnvelope(SOAPCalcTask.java:249)*
*     at com.sco.tta.server.server.CalcTask.runTask(CalcTask.java:127)*
*     at com.sco.tta.server.server.Task.run(Task.java:125)*
*     at com.sco.cid.common.WorkerPool$Worker.run(WorkerPool.java:469)*
*     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)*