After Execution Of UpgradeWebCenterPortal() a "NullPointerException" Stack is found (Doc ID 2296321.1)

Last updated on JULY 07, 2020

Applies to:

Symptoms

After the execution of upgradeWebCenterPortal() with or without the parameter proceedWithWarnings='true', the upgrade completes but when reviewing the UpgradeDetails.log it shows an NullPointerException errror.

ERROR
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File: UpgradeDetails.log

java.lang.NullPointerException
at oracle.portal.core.migration.impl.PortalUpgradeHandlerImpl.upgrade(PortalUpgradeHandlerImpl.java:377)
at oracle.webcenter.upgrade.framework.UpgradeManager.handleUpgrade(UpgradeManager.java:787)
at oracle.webcenter.upgrade.framework.UpgradeManager._doUpgrade(UpgradeManager.java:401)
at oracle.webcenter.upgrade.framework.UpgradeManager.doUpgradeInternal(UpgradeManager.java:325)
at oracle.webcenter.upgrade.framework.UpgradeManager.access$000(UpgradeManager.java:89)
at oracle.webcenter.upgrade.framework.UpgradeManager$1.run(UpgradeManager.java:182)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:483)
at oracle.webcenter.upgrade.framework.UpgradeManager.doUpgrade(UpgradeManager.java:178)
at oracle.webcenter.lifecycle.mxbean.LifecycleManager.lambda$migrateMDSDataToDB$0(LifecycleManager.java:1206)
at oracle.webcenter.portal.context.impl.PortalRequestExecutorImpl.execute(PortalRequestExecutorImpl.java:47)
at oracle.webcenter.lifecycle.mxbean.LifecycleManager.migrateMDSDataToDB(LifecycleManager.java:1203)
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 oracle.as.jmx.framework.standardmbeans.spi.OracleStandardEmitterMBean.doInvoke(OracleStandardEmitterMBean.java:918)
at oracle.adf.mbean.share.AdfMBeanInterceptor.internalInvoke(AdfMBeanInterceptor.java:102)
at oracle.as.jmx.framework.generic.spi.interceptors.AbstractMBeanInterceptor.doInvoke(AbstractMBeanInterceptor.java:252)
at oracle.as.jmx.framework.generic.spi.security.AbstractMBeanSecurityInterceptor.internalInvoke(AbstractMBeanSecurityInterceptor.java:192)
at oracle.as.jmx.framework.generic.spi.interceptors.AbstractMBeanInterceptor.doInvoke(AbstractMBeanInterceptor.java:252)
at oracle.security.jps.ee.jmx.JpsJmxInterceptor$2.run(JpsJmxInterceptor.java:423)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at oracle.security.jps.util.JpsSubject.doAsPrivileged(JpsSubject.java:315)
at oracle.security.jps.ee.util.JpsPlatformUtil.runJaasMode(JpsPlatformUtil.java:650)
at oracle.security.jps.ee.jmx.JpsJmxInterceptor.internalInvoke(JpsJmxInterceptor.java:442)
at oracle.as.jmx.framework.generic.spi.interceptors.AbstractMBeanInterceptor.doInvoke(AbstractMBeanInterceptor.java:252)
at oracle.as.jmx.framework.generic.spi.interceptors.ContextClassLoaderMBeanInterceptor.internalInvoke(ContextClassLoaderMBeanInterceptor.java:100)
at oracle.as.jmx.framework.generic.spi.interceptors.AbstractMBeanInterceptor.doInvoke(AbstractMBeanInterceptor.java:252)
at oracle.as.jmx.framework.generic.spi.interceptors.MBeanRestartInterceptor.internalInvoke(MBeanRestartInterceptor.java:116)
at oracle.as.jmx.framework.generic.spi.interceptors.AbstractMBeanInterceptor.doInvoke(AbstractMBeanInterceptor.java:252)
at oracle.as.jmx.framework.standardmbeans.spi.OracleStandardEmitterMBean.invoke(OracleStandardEmitterMBean.java:834)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:819)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:801)
at weblogic.management.jmx.mbeanserver.WLSMBeanServerInterceptorBase$21.run(WLSMBeanServerInterceptorBase.java:589)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at weblogic.management.jmx.mbeanserver.WLSMBeanServerInterceptorBase.invoke(WLSMBeanServerInterceptorBase.java:587)
at weblogic.management.mbeanservers.internal.JMXContextInterceptor.invoke(JMXContextInterceptor.java:249)
at weblogic.management.jmx.mbeanserver.WLSMBeanServerInterceptorBase$21.run(WLSMBeanServerInterceptorBase.java:589)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at weblogic.management.jmx.mbeanserver.WLSMBeanServerIntercep

STEPS
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The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:
1) Ran UpgradeWebcenterPortal with parameter:
    a. proceedWithWarnings='true'

2) UpgradeDetails.log shows NullPointerException errror.

Changes

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