[Dspace-tech] Re : Error In Creating Admin

[Hardik Mishra]

Can u please tell what java version are you using ?

It might be a problem with older java versions.

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:27:26 +1300
From: Stuart Lewis <s.l...@auckland.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Creating administrator account error
To: "rmorge...@iway.na" <rmorge...@iway.na>
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Hi Renate,

We've just been discussing this on the #dspace IRC channel, as it is a
strange problem.

> When attempting to create the administrator account I run into
> an error.
> Any suggestion what we could do?
>
> dspace@ir1:/usr/local/dspace/

bin$ ./create-administrator
> Creating an initial administrator account
> E-mail address:
> First name:
> Last name:
> WARNING: Password will appear on-screen.
> Password:
> Again to confirm:
> Is the above data correct? (y or n): y
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>       at java.util.regex.Matcher.getTextLength(Matcher.java:1140)
>       at java.util.regex.Matcher.reset(Matcher.java:291)
>       at java.util.regex.Matcher.<init>(Matcher.java:211)
>       at java.util.regex.Pattern.matcher(Pattern.java:888)
>       at
> org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.findByUnique
> (DatabaseManager.java:475)

Can you check in your Postgres (or Oracle) database that all the
DSpace tables have been created successfully? The main table to check
for this problem is 'eperson'.

Thanks,


Stuart Lewis
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