Both on upgrade from earlier 1.8.6 and clean install (well, kept db + rrds intact, restored relevant parts of $OPENNMS_HOME/etc/), startup fails with this sequence:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tue Mar 1 12:32:21 CET 2011
begin ulimit settings:
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 137216
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 10240
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) unlimited
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited
end ulimit settings
Executing command: /opt/opennms/bin/runjava -r – -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/opennms/lib/endorsed -Dopennms.home=/opt/opennms -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=18980 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Xmx4096m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Xms4096m -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -verbose:gc -jar /opt/opennms/lib/opennms_bootstrap.jar start
[DEBUG] System property 'opennms.library.jicmp' set to '/usr/lib64/libjicmp.so. Attempting to load jicmp library from this location.
[INFO] Successfully loaded jicmp library.
[GC 1048640K->78063K(4019584K), 0.0789320 secs]
[GC 1126703K->130065K(4019584K), 0.1472010 secs]
[GC 668341K->142097K(4019584K), 0.1265860 secs]
[Full GC 142097K->140850K(4019584K), 0.7638360 secs]
Mar 1, 2011 12:33:32 PM com.noelios.restlet.http.StreamClientHelper start
INFO: Starting the HTTP client
An error occurred while attempting to start the "OpenNMS:Name=Provisiond" service (class org.opennms.netmgt.daemon.SimpleSpringContextJmxServiceDaemon). Shutting down and exiting.
javax.management.RuntimeMBeanException: org.springframework.beans.factory.access.BootstrapException: Unable to return specified BeanFactory instance: factory key [provisiondContext], from group with resource name [classpath*:beanRefContext.xml]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'provisiondContext' defined in URL [jar:file:/opt/opennms/lib/opennms-provisiond-1.8.10.jar!/beanRefContext.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'adapterManager' defined in class path resource [META-INF/opennms/applicationContext-provisiond.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'rancidProvisioningAdapter' defined in URL [jar:file:/opt/opennms/lib/opennms-rancid-1.8.10.jar!/META-INF/opennms/provisiond-extensions.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.rethrow(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:856)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.rethrowMaybeMBeanException(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:869)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:838)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:761)
at org.opennms.netmgt.vmmgr.Invoker.invoke(Invoker.java:338)
at org.opennms.netmgt.vmmgr.Invoker.invokeMethods(Invoker.java:261)
at org.opennms.netmgt.vmmgr.Starter.start(Starter.java:266)
at org.opennms.netmgt.vmmgr.Starter.startDaemon(Starter.java:137)
at org.opennms.netmgt.vmmgr.Controller.start(Controller.java:202)
at org.opennms.netmgt.vmmgr.Controller.main(Controller.java:174)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.opennms.bootstrap.Bootstrap$3.run(Bootstrap.java:352)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.access.BootstrapException: Unable to return specified BeanFactory instance: factory key [provisiondContext], from group with resource name [classpath*:beanRefContext.xml]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'provisiondContext' defined in URL [jar:file:/opt/opennms/lib/opennms-provisiond-1.8.10.jar!/beanRefContext.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'adapterManager' defined in class path resource [META-INF/opennms/applicationContext-provisiond.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'rancidProvisioningAdapter' defined in URL [jar:file:/opt/opennms/lib/opennms-rancid-1.8.10.jar!/META-INF/opennms/provisiond-extensions.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.springframework.beans.factory.access.SingletonBeanFactoryLocator.useBeanFactory(SingletonBeanFactoryLocator.java:409)
at org.opennms.core.utils.BeanUtils.getBeanFactory(BeanUtils.java:59)
at org.opennms.core.utils.BeanUtils.getFactory(BeanUtils.java:101)
at org.opennms.netmgt.daemon.AbstractSpringContextJmxServiceDaemon.init(AbstractSpringContextJmxServiceDaemon.java:109)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor18.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.StandardMBeanIntrospector.invokeM2(StandardMBeanIntrospector.java:93)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.StandardMBeanIntrospector.invokeM2(StandardMBeanIntrospector.java:27)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MBeanIntrospector.invokeM(MBeanIntrospector.java:208)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.PerInterface.invoke(PerInterface.java:120)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MBeanSupport.invoke(MBeanSupport.java:262)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:836)
... 13 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'provisiondContext' defined in URL [jar:file:/opt/opennms/lib/opennms-provisiond-1.8.10.jar!/beanRefContext.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'adapterManager' defined in class path resource [META-INF/opennms/applicationContext-provisiond.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'rancidProvisioningAdapter' defined in URL [jar:file:/opt/opennms/lib/opennms-rancid-1.8.10.jar!/META-INF/opennms/provisiond-extensions.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:285)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:993)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:897)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:485)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1049)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.access.SingletonBeanFactoryLocator.useBeanFactory(SingletonBeanFactoryLocator.java:397)
... 25 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'adapterManager' defined in class path resource [META-INF/opennms/applicationContext-provisiond.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'rancidProvisioningAdapter' defined in URL [jar:file:/opt/opennms/lib/opennms-rancid-1.8.10.jar!/META-INF/opennms/provisiond-extensions.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:141)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:107)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:277)
... 35 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'adapterManager' defined in class path resource [META-INF/opennms/applicationContext-provisiond.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'rancidProvisioningAdapter' defined in URL [jar:file:/opt/opennms/lib/opennms-rancid-1.8.10.jar!/META-INF/opennms/provisiond-extensions.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1412)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:563)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:872)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:423)
at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139)
at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:105)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:126)
... 37 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'rancidProvisioningAdapter' defined in URL [jar:file:/opt/opennms/lib/opennms-rancid-1.8.10.jar!/META-INF/opennms/provisiond-extensions.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1412)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeansOfType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:387)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBeansOfType(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1116)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactoryUtils.beansOfTypeIncludingAncestors(BeanFactoryUtils.java:266)
at org.opennms.netmgt.provision.service.DefaultPluginRegistry.beansOfType(DefaultPluginRegistry.java:148)
at org.opennms.netmgt.provision.service.DefaultPluginRegistry.getAllPlugins(DefaultPluginRegistry.java:128)
at org.opennms.netmgt.provision.service.ProvisioningAdapterManager.afterPropertiesSet(ProvisioningAdapterManager.java:75)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1469)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1409)
... 53 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.opennms.netmgt.provision.RancidProvisioningAdapter.getSuitableRancidNodeAuthentication(RancidProvisioningAdapter.java:615)
at org.opennms.netmgt.provision.RancidProvisioningAdapter.getSuitableRancidNode(RancidProvisioningAdapter.java:584)
at org.opennms.netmgt.provision.RancidProvisioningAdapter.buildRancidNodeMap(RancidProvisioningAdapter.java:200)
at org.opennms.netmgt.provision.RancidProvisioningAdapter.access$000(RancidProvisioningAdapter.java:83)
at org.opennms.netmgt.provision.RancidProvisioningAdapter$1.doInTransaction(RancidProvisioningAdapter.java:165)
at org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionTemplate.execute(TransactionTemplate.java:130)
at org.opennms.netmgt.provision.RancidProvisioningAdapter.afterPropertiesSet(RancidProvisioningAdapter.java:163)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1469)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1409)
... 67 more