LG not responding

[labradors]

After about two days of problems with the time daemon, the LittleGolem
site is not responding at all, right now. It IS possible to ping it,
but that's about all.

[labradors]

Follow-up error message:

HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented
it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.NullPointerException
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException
(JspServletWrapper.java:510)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service
(JspServletWrapper.java:375)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:
314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
net.sourceforge.stripes.controller.StripesFilter.doFilter
(StripesFilter.java:246)
ng.filter.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter
(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:102)
ng.filter.PlayerFilter.doFilter(PlayerFilter.java:61)
ng.filter.DbFilter.doFilter(DbFilter.java:40)
ng.filter.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:238)

root cause

javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NullPointerException
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException
(PageContextImpl.java:858)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException
(PageContextImpl.java:791)
org.apache.jsp.jsp.game.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:384)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service
(JspServletWrapper.java:332)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:
314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
net.sourceforge.stripes.controller.StripesFilter.doFilter
(StripesFilter.java:246)
ng.filter.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter
(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:102)
ng.filter.PlayerFilter.doFilter(PlayerFilter.java:61)
ng.filter.DbFilter.doFilter(DbFilter.java:40)
ng.filter.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:238)

root cause

ng.util.GolemException: java.lang.NullPointerException
ng.db.DB.getPrepareStatement(DB.java:175)
ng.db.DB.executeUpdate(DB.java:134)
ng.adv.Advertisment.read(Advertisment.java:40)
ng.adv.Advertisment.getTopAdv(Advertisment.java:22)
org.apache.jsp.jsp.game.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:108)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service
(JspServletWrapper.java:332)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:
314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
net.sourceforge.stripes.controller.StripesFilter.doFilter
(StripesFilter.java:246)
ng.filter.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter
(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:102)
ng.filter.PlayerFilter.doFilter(PlayerFilter.java:61)
ng.filter.DbFilter.doFilter(DbFilter.java:40)
ng.filter.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:238)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache
Tomcat/5.5.17 logs.
Apache Tomcat/5.5.17