Initialization error "Unable to register service ReviewService" and "Unable to start local agent" in RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle 7.x
Originally Published: 2017-01-25
Article Number
Applies To
RSA Version/Condition: 7.0.0+, 7.0.1
Issue
The RSA Identity Governance & Lifecycle application User Interface (UI) will not come up after a restart. The initialization error as shown here is displayed:
Initialization Status
Initialization operations completed with errors. Please resolve the problems(s) before the application server can accept requests.
Unable to register service ReviewService.com.aveksa.server.runtime.ServerException: java.lang.NullPointerException
Unable to start local agent.java.lang.Exception: Local Agent could not be deployed in the system.

Initialization operations completed with errors. Please resolve the problems(s) before the application server can accept requests.
Unable to register service ReviewService.com.aveksa.server.runtime.ServerException: java.lang.NullPointerException
Unable to start local agent.java.lang.Exception: Local Agent could not be deployed in the system.
The $AVEKSA_WAR_DIR/log/aveksaServer.log shows the following errors:
12/12/2016 18:37:42.294 ERROR (MSC service thread 1-3) [com.aveksa.server.core.Container] Unable to register service ReviewService.
com.aveksa.server.runtime.ServerException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.aveksa.server.review.ReviewServiceProvider.initialize(ReviewServiceProvider.java:208)
at com.aveksa.server.core.Container.registerService(Container.java:289)
at com.aveksa.server.core.Container.initialize(Container.java:83)
at com.aveksa.server.runtime.AveksaSystem.doStartupOperations(AveksaSystem.java:329)
at com.aveksa.server.runtime.AveksaSystem.initialize(AveksaSystem.java:305)
......
12/12/2016 18:37:46.958 ERROR (MSC service thread 1-3) [com.aveksa.server.runtime.AveksaSystem] Unable to start local agent.
java.lang.Exception: Local Agent could not deployed in the system.
at com.aveksa.server.core.Container.startLocalAgent(Container.java:376)
at com.aveksa.server.core.Container.startLocalAgent(Container.java:334)
at com.aveksa.server.runtime.AveksaSystem.doStartupOperations(AveksaSystem.java:383)
.....
[com.aveksa.server.authorization.XXAuthorizationServiceProvider] Initializing of XXAuthorizationServiceProvider Context
12/12/2016 18:37:47.527 ERROR (MSC service thread 1-3) [com.aveksa.server.authorization.XXAuthorizationServiceProvider] loading security contexts
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.aveksa.server.authorization.XXAuthorizationServiceProvider.init(XXAuthorizationServiceProvider.java:267)
at com.aveksa.server.runtime.AveksaSystem.doStartupForNonStandaloneServer(AveksaSystem.java:421)
at com.aveksa.server.runtime.AveksaSystem.initialize(AveksaSystem.java:307)Cause
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Workaround
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