Hi all, We need someone to take https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1746
Francois is reporting the following exception in the bug: log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info. java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at org.apache.commons.daemon.support.DaemonLoader.start(DaemonLoader.java:177) Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at com.cloud.utils.db.TransactionContextBuilder.AroundAnyMethod(TransactionContextBuilder.java:34) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor8.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AbstractAspectJAdvice.invokeAdviceMethodWithGivenArgs(AbstractAspectJAdvice.java:621) at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AbstractAspectJAdvice.invokeAdviceMethod(AbstractAspectJAdvice.java:610) at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJAroundAdvice.invoke(AspectJAroundAdvice.java:65) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172) at org.springframework.aop.interceptor.ExposeInvocationInterceptor.invoke(ExposeInvocationInterceptor.java:90) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172) at org.springframework.aop.framework.Cglib2AopProxy$DynamicAdvisedInterceptor.intercept(Cglib2AopProxy.java:622) at com.cloud.configuration.dao.ConfigurationDaoImpl$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$27aaa385.configure(<generated>) at com.cloud.utils.component.ComponentContext.initComponentsLifeCycle(ComponentContext.java:97) at com.cloud.usage.UsageServer.start(UsageServer.java:53) ... 5 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:133) at com.cloud.utils.crypt.EncryptionSecretKeyChecker.check(EncryptionSecretKeyChecker.java:65) at com.cloud.utils.db.Transaction.<clinit>(Transaction.java:101) ... 19 more 20/03/2013 13:53:33 20255 jsvc.exec error: Cannot start daemon 20/03/2013 13:53:33 20254 jsvc.exec error: Service exit with a return value of 5