The configuration should work provided log.level is actually defined as a 
system property. If you set the status directly to debug I suspect you might 
see a bit more output.  I am going to have to create a unit test with this 
configuration and test it and I will get back to you asap.

Ralph


On Aug 7, 2012, at 7:06 AM, Simone Tripodi wrote:

> Hi Ralph!
> 
> as mentioned in previous message, configuration file is on gist[1]
> 
> many thanks in advance, all the best!!!
> -Simo
> 
> [1] https://gist.github.com/3283384
> 
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> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Ralph Goers <rgo...@apache.org> wrote:
>> Can you post your logging configuration file?  This error usually means it 
>> can't find a plugin for the object. That would be very odd for the root 
>> logger.
>> 
>> Ralph
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Aug 7, 2012, at 1:46 AM, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all mates!
>>> 
>>> Congrats first for the 2.0 release - even if alpha, this is something
>>> we all ASF friends were waiting for! :)
>>> 
>>> I am now trying to migrate a small app from slf4j+logback to log4j2
>>> and I should have not understood well how new stuff work because I
>>> obtain the error as in the subject.
>>> 
>>> This is my new log4j2.xml[1] file and then I just use the APIs.
>>> 
>>> When the app starts, I get the following stacktrace:
>>> 
>>> Null object returned for root
>>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>>>   at 
>>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.BaseConfiguration.createPluginObject(BaseConfiguration.java:589)
>>>   at 
>>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.BaseConfiguration.createConfiguration(BaseConfiguration.java:452)
>>>   at 
>>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.BaseConfiguration.doConfigure(BaseConfiguration.java:148)
>>>   at 
>>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.BaseConfiguration.start(BaseConfiguration.java:108)
>>>   at 
>>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration(LoggerContext.java:202)
>>>   at 
>>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.reconfigure(LoggerContext.java:218)
>>>   at 
>>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:109)
>>>   at 
>>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:81)
>>>   at 
>>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:30)
>>>   at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger(LogManager.java:129)
>>> 
>>> What did I miss?
>>> 
>>> Many thanks in advance, all the best!
>>> -Simo
>>> 
>>> [1] https://gist.github.com/3283384
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