WLS_PORTAL Managed Server Fails to Start with Error: Algorithm HmacSHA1 not available (Doc ID 3005623.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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Symptoms

Attempting to start the Oracle Portal managed server using "startManagedWebLogic.sh WLS_PORTAL" fails with error:

Error message: JPS-01050: Opening of wallet based credential store failed. Reason java.io.IOException
  at weblogic.security.service.CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.loadOPSSPolicy(CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.java:1402)
  at weblogic.security.service.CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.initialize(CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.java:1022)
  at weblogic.security.service.SecurityServiceManager.initialize(SecurityServiceManager.java:873)
  at weblogic.security.SecurityService.start(SecurityService.java:141)
  at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemRequest.run(SubsystemRequest.java:64)
  Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace

Adding Java debugging options "-Doracle.pki.debug=true -Djava.security.debug=jpspolicy" shows the underlying error:

OracleKeyStoreSpi: Loading wallet from stream
OracleKeyStoreSpi.engineLoad: oracle.security.crypto.core.AuthenticationException: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Algorithm HmacSHA1 not available
  at oracle.security.crypto.cert.PKCS12.verify(PKCS12.java:431)
  at oracle.security.pki.OracleKeyStoreSpi.engineLoad(Unknown Source)
..
..
Caused by: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Algorithm HmacSHA1 not available
  at javax.crypto.Mac.getInstance(Mac.java:181)
  at oracle.security.crypto.cert.PKCS12.verify(PKCS12.java:406)
... 35 more
OracleWallet.open: java.io.IOException

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