Exception Error when I try to initialize hudson.war - exception

Question

I have installed hudson on Ubuntu server and then run java -jar hudson.war, giving me this exception error message:
Status Code: 500 Exception: The error
below occurred during context
initialisation, so no further requests
can be processed:
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at
java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.10)
at
hudson.WebAppMain.installLogger(WebAppMain.java:257)
at
hudson.WebAppMain.contextInitialized(WebAppMain.java:112)
at
winstone.WebAppConfiguration.(WebAppConfiguration.java:889)
at
winstone.HostConfiguration.initWebApp(HostConfiguration.java:131)
at
winstone.HostConfiguration.(HostConfiguration.java:73)
at
winstone.HostGroup.initHost(HostGroup.java:85)
at
winstone.HostGroup.(HostGroup.java:45)
at
winstone.Launcher.(Launcher.java:196)
at
winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:391)
at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(libgcj.so.10)
at Main.main(Main.java:200) Caused
by:
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream$InitializationException:
Could not instantiate converter :
com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.extended.DurationConverter
: null at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.dynamicallyRegisterConverter(XStream.java:735)
at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.setupConverters(XStream.java:699)
at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.(XStream.java:445)
at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.(XStream.java:385)
at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.(XStream.java:323)
at
hudson.util.XStream2.(XStream2.java:61)
at
hudson.model.Hudson.(Hudson.java:3571)
at
java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.10)
...11 more Caused by:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(libgcj.so.10)
at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.dynamicallyRegisterConverter(XStream.java:728)
...18 more Caused by:
javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeConfigurationException:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
gnu.xml.datatype.JAXPDatatypeFactory
at
javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory.newInstance(libgcj.so.10)
at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.extended.DurationConverter.(DurationConverter.java:33)
at
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(libgcj.so.10)
...19 more Caused by:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
gnu.xml.datatype.JAXPDatatypeFactory
at
java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.10)
at
javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory.newInstance(libgcj.so.10)
...21 more
Stacktrace:
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at
java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.10)
at
hudson.WebAppMain.installLogger(WebAppMain.java:257)
at
hudson.WebAppMain.contextInitialized(WebAppMain.java:112)
at
winstone.WebAppConfiguration.(WebAppConfiguration.java:889)
at
winstone.HostConfiguration.initWebApp(HostConfiguration.java:131)
at
winstone.HostConfiguration.(HostConfiguration.java:73)
at
winstone.HostGroup.initHost(HostGroup.java:85)
at
winstone.HostGroup.(HostGroup.java:45)
at
winstone.Launcher.(Launcher.java:196)
at
winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:391)
at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(libgcj.so.10)
at Main.main(Main.java:200) Caused
by:
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream$InitializationException:
Could not instantiate converter :
com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.extended.DurationConverter
: null at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.dynamicallyRegisterConverter(XStream.java:735)
at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.setupConverters(XStream.java:699)
at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.(XStream.java:445)
at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.(XStream.java:385)
at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.(XStream.java:323)
at
hudson.util.XStream2.(XStream2.java:61)
at
hudson.model.Hudson.(Hudson.java:3571)
at
java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.10)
...11 more Caused by:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(libgcj.so.10)
at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.dynamicallyRegisterConverter(XStream.java:728)
...18 more Caused by:
javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeConfigurationException:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
gnu.xml.datatype.JAXPDatatypeFactory
at
javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory.newInstance(libgcj.so.10)
at
com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.extended.DurationConverter.(DurationConverter.java:33)
at
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(libgcj.so.10)
...19 more Caused by:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
gnu.xml.datatype.JAXPDatatypeFactory
at
java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.10)
at
javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory.newInstance(libgcj.so.10)
...21 more
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20102010
Do you know what I am missing?
any suggestions would be very appreciated.
regards
Naoya

Answer 1

You probably run the wrong java. Check if you use sun's oracle's java.
See here for other people that had this problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1434376

Answer 2

same comment, you probably have the wrong java version.
You can specify the correct path to the java binary in /etc/default/hudson.
If you use jenkins then edit /etc/default/jenkins instead.
# /etc/default/{hudson,jenkins}
JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdk_1.6
JAVA=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java

Answer 3

Encountered a similar issue due to no more space in /tmp (root partition).