Hudson 1.280 - Tomcat/6.0.18 on Windows Server 2008
Log has no stack trace (neither site, stdout nor stderr)

Active directory matrix in configure system results in :

HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from
fulfilling this request.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NullPointerException
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:450)
org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$12.dispatch(MetaClass.java:313)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:438)
org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$4.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:145)
org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:30)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:438)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:356)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:116)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:68)
hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:60)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:52)
hudson.security.UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.doFilter(UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.java:28)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
org.acegisecurity.ui.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:166)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:125)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
org.acegisecurity.ui.rememberme.RememberMeProcessingFilter.doFilter(RememberMeProcessingFilter.java:142)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:271)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
org.acegisecurity.ui.basicauth.BasicProcessingFilter.doFilter(BasicProcessingFilter.java:173)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:249)
hudson.security.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.java:42)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:44)
hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:110)

root cause

java.lang.NullPointerException
hudson.plugins.active_directory.ActiveDirectoryAuthenticationProvider.retrieveUser(ActiveDirectoryAuthenticationProvider.java:100)
hudson.plugins.active_directory.ActiveDirectoryAuthenticationProvider.loadUserByUsername(ActiveDirectoryAuthenticationProvider.java:61)
hudson.security.SecurityRealm.loadUserByUsername(SecurityRealm.java:171)
hudson.security.GlobalMatrixAuthorizationStrategy$DescriptorImpl$1.check(GlobalMatrixAuthorizationStrategy.java:239)
hudson.util.FormFieldValidator.process(FormFieldValidator.java:112)
hudson.security.GlobalMatrixAuthorizationStrategy$DescriptorImpl.doCheckName(GlobalMatrixAuthorizationStrategy.java:227)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$InstanceFunction.invoke(Function.java:156)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvoke(Function.java:76)
org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$1.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:73)
org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:30)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:438)
org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$12.dispatch(MetaClass.java:313)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:438)
org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$4.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:145)
org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:30)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:438)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:356)
org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:116)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:68)
hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:60)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:52)
hudson.security.UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.doFilter(UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.java:28)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
org.acegisecurity.ui.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:166)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:125)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
org.acegisecurity.ui.rememberme.RememberMeProcessingFilter.doFilter(RememberMeProcessingFilter.java:142)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:271)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
org.acegisecurity.ui.basicauth.BasicProcessingFilter.doFilter(BasicProcessingFilter.java:173)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:249)
hudson.security.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.java:42)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:44)
hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:110)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache
Tomcat/6.0.18 logs. <--- no trace there