shibboleth is refusing to start - Exception encountered during context initialization

By: Alasdair Smith user 19 Dec 2017 at 1:57 p.m. CST

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Was in the process of setting up SAML with Gluu 3.1.1.Final after a reboot shibboleth is refusing to start, relevant excerpt from logs: ``` 2017-12-18 23:42:38,224 - WARN [net.shibboleth.ext.spring.context.DelimiterAwareApplicationContext:549] - Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'shibboleth.metrics.RegisterMetricSets$child#0' defined in URL [file:/opt/shibboleth-idp/conf/admin/metrics.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'shibboleth.metrics.AttributeResolverGaugeSet' while setting bean property 'arguments' with key [7]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'shibboleth.metrics.AttributeResolverGaugeSet' defined in URL [file:/opt/shibboleth-idp/system/conf/general-admin-system.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.component.ComponentInitializationException: Injected service was null or not an AttributeResolver ``` Any help very much appreciated. [Shibooleth_logs](https://pastebin.com/d1h9yWiN) [metrics.xml](https://pastebin.com/JT81tnzv) Regards Alasdair Smith
Ubuntu 16.0
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By Aliaksandr Samuseu staff 19 Dec 2017 at 3:20 p.m. CST

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Hi, Alasdair. Most likely it's caused by something you did in the "process of setting up SAML". Please review all changes you committed, especially any direct edits to configuration files on disk, and try to revert them. You may decide to reinstall it if it's a clean instance and you don't remember what change could cause this. No documented procedure should result in such issue. If you followed some official doc page, please reference it.

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