Deploying an ear file - error

Question

Hi,
am trying to deploy an application with a ear file. iasdeploy deployapp -verbose myapp.ear in IAS6.0 with SP3 environment. i am getting the following error. does any body have a clue what does it mean ?. help is very much appreciated.
iasdeploy for iPlanet Application Server 6.0 SP3
Debug level set to on ..
Severity 1: Inside IasDeploy.main() ...
Connected to LDAP server on ldaptest.providian.com port 20700
Severity 1: Inside DeployJar server size ...1
Severity 1: Inside DeployJar Deployable action ...J2EEInstallEar
Severity 1: Inside DeployJar Deployable Name ...eds
Severity 1: Deploying to IAS, host name is ldaptest
Severity 1: SharedConfigServerGroup:Added: [ldaptest:20760]
Severity 1: Inside DeployJar .. DeployGroupList ..
Severity 1: Inside DeployJar .. before creating DeployThread..
Severity 1: DeployThread: a new thread created
Severity 1: Starting Connection Pool Manager
Severity 1: DeployEngine.logon...Logged on to server: [ldaptest:20760]
Severity 1: Inside DeployJar .. after forming DeployThread ..
Severity 1: DeployThread: Now sequentially for server: [ldaptest:20760]
Severity 1: Deployable Type : 1
Severity 1: Inside DeployJar .. after calling group Thread ..
Severity 1: executeRPC successful ..
Severity 1: The JAR Path is : /ldapfs/apps/vendors/sun/iplanet/ias6/ias/JAR
Severity 1: destination file : /ldapfs/apps/vendors/sun/iplanet/ias6/ias/JAR/eds.ear
Severity 1: Sending file : /apps/runtime/iplanet/eds_app/eds.ear
Severity 1: 1/ldapfs/apps/vendors/sun/iplanet/ias6/ias/JAR/eds.ear transferred
ldaptest:null
ldaptest:10 kas> deployment action ''J2EEInstallEar'' (/ldapfs/apps/vendors/sun/iplanet/ias6/ias/JAR/eds.ear) running.
Severity 1: DeployEngine.rpc_deploy_cmd: 10 kas> deployment action ''J2EEInstallEar'' (/ldapfs/apps/vendors/sun/iplanet/ias6/ias/JAR/eds.ear) running.
Severity 1: DeployLogListener: sending packet /ldapfs/apps/vendors/sun/iplanet/ias6/ias/JAR/eds.ear J2EEInstallEar
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:j2eeappreg -nodeprecated /ldapfs/apps/vendors/sun/iplanet/ias6/ias/JAR/eds.ear 2>&1 XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:j2eeappreg -nodeprecated /ldapfs/apps/vendors/sun/iplanet/ias6/ias/JAR/eds.ear 2>&1
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 Connected to LDAP server on ldaptest.providian.com port 20700 XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 Connected to LDAP server on ldaptest.providian.com port 20700
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 login page is being set to : XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 login page is being set to :
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 Module: eds XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 Module: eds
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 ------ Register Web Module: eds.war ------ XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 ------ Register Web Module: eds.war ------
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 WebAppName is eds XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 WebAppName is eds
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 [30/Apr/2002 11:39:58:4] info: GDS-007: finished a registry load XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 [30/Apr/2002 11:39:58:4] info: GDS-007: finished a registry load
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 WebAppName is eds XXXXXXXX
<B>ldaptest:10 WebAppName is eds
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 java.lang.NullPointerException XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 java.lang.NullPointerException
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 at java.lang.String.getBytes(Compiled Code) XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 at java.lang.String.getBytes(Compiled Code)
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 at com.kivasoft.util.GX.GDSSetKeyValueString(Compiled Code) XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 at com.kivasoft.util.GX.GDSSetKeyValueString(Compiled Code)
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.WebAppCompGDSUtil.putServletToGDS(Compiled Code) XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.WebAppCompGDSUtil.putServletToGDS(Compiled Code)
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.WebAppCompGDSUtil.putAllServletsToGDS(Compiled Code) XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.WebAppCompGDSUtil.putAllServletsToGDS(Compiled Code)
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.WebAppCompGDSUtil.putWebAppDescriptorInGDS(Unknown Source) XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.WebAppCompGDSUtil.putWebAppDescriptorInGDS(Unknown Source)
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.WebAppReg.registerWebApp(Unknown Source) XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.WebAppReg.registerWebApp(Unknown Source)
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.J2eeAppReg.registerJ2eeApp(Compiled Code) XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.J2eeAppReg.registerJ2eeApp(Compiled Code)
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.J2eeAppReg.run(Unknown Source) XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.J2eeAppReg.run(Unknown Source)
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.J2eeAppReg.main(Unknown Source) XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 at com.netscape.server.deployment.J2eeAppReg.main(Unknown Source)
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:10 j2eeappreg done. XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:10 j2eeappreg done.</b>
Severity 1: DeployLogListener:20 kas> deployment action ''J2EEInstallEar'' (/ldapfs/apps/vendors/sun/iplanet/ias6/ias/JAR/eds.ear) complete. XXXXXXXX
ldaptest:20 kas> deployment action ''J2EEInstallEar'' (/ldapfs/apps/vendors/sun/iplanet/ias6/ias/JAR/eds.ear) complete.
ldaptest:
Finished deploying to ldaptest at [30/Apr/2002 11:40:05]
Severity 1: Removing [email protected]:20760

Answer 1

Hi Chandra,
One of the reason for this problem could be that
your LDAP server has got corrupted. To verify that
if possible, try to deploy this in any other
instance of application server pointing to a
different LDAP.
Another reason could be, problem with your
build.xml file. Did you build this myapp.ear
from scratch or did you use the build.xml from
one of our sample application?
If you have used one of our sample application
build.xml, there is a high possibility that
you might not have changed the name of your
application in one of the entries.
Thank you