Create Administratoraccount in DSpace 5.8

[Kosmas Kaifel]

Hello

in our testintance I have cleaned the database.
Now I want to create an administrator-account an then I receive the
following error.

Exception: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2DatabaseMetaData.getColumns(AbstractJdbc2DatabaseMetaData.java:2502)
        at
org.postgresql.jdbc4.AbstractJdbc4DatabaseMetaData.getColumns(AbstractJdbc4DatabaseMetaData.java:99)
        at
org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingDatabaseMetaData.getColumns(DelegatingDatabaseMetaData.java:218)
        at
org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingDatabaseMetaData.getColumns(DelegatingDatabaseMetaData.java:218)
        at
org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.retrieveColumnInfo(DatabaseManager.java:1278)
        at
org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.getColumnInfoInternal(DatabaseManager.java:1217)
        at
org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.getColumnInfo(DatabaseManager.java:799)
        at
org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.getPrimaryKeyColumnInfo(DatabaseManager.java:1105)
        at
org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.getPrimaryKeyColumn(DatabaseManager.java:1087)
        at
org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.find(DatabaseManager.java:490)
        at org.dspace.eperson.Group.find(Group.java:706)
        at
org.dspace.administer.CreateAdministrator.createAdministrator(CreateAdministrator.java:234)
        at
org.dspace.administer.CreateAdministrator.negotiateAdministratorDetails(CreateAdministrator.java:206)
        at
org.dspace.administer.CreateAdministrator.main(CreateAdministrator.java:82)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
        at
org.dspace.app.launcher.ScriptLauncher.runOneCommand(ScriptLauncher.java:226)
        at
org.dspace.app.launcher.ScriptLauncher.main(ScriptLauncher.java:78)

Best Regards Kosmas

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[Claudia Jürgen]

Hello Kosmas,

having cleaned the database you are missing the administrator group to
which an admin created is automatically added. You need to seed your db
with the basic data, this is needed for other things like the registries
needed for submission, too.

Hope this helps

Claudia Jürgen

Claudia Juergen

Technische Universität Dortmund
Universitätsbibliothek
Bibliotheks-IT
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44227 Dortmund

Tel.: +49 231-755 40 43
Fax: +49 231-755 40 32
claudia...@tu-dortmund.de
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