I am posting the same error for the third time, its quite urgent. I got this error and it does not let me initialize site container.
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] 25.08.2016 08:12:45 ERROR localhost-startStop-1 [DefaultHstSiteConfigurer.initializeComponentManager:300] HstSiteConfigServlet: ComponentManager initialization failed.
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer#0' defined in class path resource [org/hippoecm/hst/site/container/SpringComponentManager.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: NULL
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:547)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:303)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:299)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:199)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:626)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:407)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.hippoecm.hst.site.container.SpringComponentManager.initialize(SpringComponentManager.java:149)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.hippoecm.hst.site.container.DefaultHstSiteConfigurer.initializeComponentManager(DefaultHstSiteConfigurer.java:281)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.hippoecm.hst.site.container.DefaultHstSiteConfigurer.initialize(DefaultHstSiteConfigurer.java:243)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.hippoecm.hst.site.container.HstContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(HstContextLoaderListener.java:59)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4729)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5167)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:725)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:701)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:945)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1768)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: NULL
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.expression.TypedValue.<clinit>(TypedValue.java:32)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.expression.spel.support.StandardEvaluationContext.setRootObject(StandardEvaluationContext.java:85)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.expression.spel.support.StandardEvaluationContext.<init>(StandardEvaluationContext.java:74)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.context.expression.StandardBeanExpressionResolver.evaluate(StandardBeanExpressionResolver.java:124)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.evaluateBeanDefinitionString(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1365)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.doEvaluate(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:255)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.evaluate(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:214)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:186)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1469)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1214)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:537)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] ... 24 more
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] 25.08.2016 08:12:45 WARN localhost-startStop-1 [DefaultHstSiteConfigurer.initializeComponentManager:310] Exception occurred during stopping componentManager. org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer#0' defined in class path resource [org/hippoecm/hst/site/container/SpringComponentManager.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: NULL