Organization Site Settings - impossible to change site template

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 6.1.0 CE GA1
• Fix Version/s: 6.1.1 CE GA2
• Component/s: Legacy > Enterprise Admin, Web Content > Web Content Administration
• Labels:
  • community-verifier
• Environment: Linux, Tomcat 7.0.23, HSQL, self-deployed war

You get the following error, when trying to set a site template for an organization (both public and private pages) and independent from the choosen template:

"Your request failed to complete."

In server log the following can be found:
[JournalContentPortletDataHandlerImpl:128] No article id found in preferences of portlet 56