[Fedora-directory-users] fedora-idm-console Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException

[Orion Poplawski]

Andrey Ivanov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have exactly the same issue - look at the bug 430499 
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430499) to see all the debug logs 
> of apache and of the console.
> 
> The bug appears each time you  configure the administration server to  use the 
> secure connection to the Directory Server configuration server (the file 
> adm.conf contains ldapurl: 
> ldaps://ldap-model.polytechnique.fr:636/o=NetscapeRoot 
> <http://model.polytechnique.fr:636/o=NetscapeRoot>).
> 
> If you change the adm.conf (or use the console to do that) to ldapurl: 
> ldap://ldap-model.polytechnique.fr:389/o=NetscapeRoot 
> <http://model.polytechnique.fr:389/o=NetscapeRoot> everything works fine again 
> (no java exception, the certificate window opens correctly).
> 
> And the bug has nothing to do with java vendor - i have tested it for serveral 
> versions, vendors and OS...
> 
> So i think that's what you have changed during the last couple of weeks :)

Yup, I had check "Use SSL in Console" under encryption in the directory 
server config. Unchecking it allows it to work again.

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