Unexpected close tag </preference>; expected </portlet-preferences>

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 6.1.10 EE GA1
• Fix Version/s: 6.1.20 EE GA2
• Component/s: Application Security
• Labels:
  • LDAP
• Environment: Glassfish 3.1.2

After an upgrade from 6.0 CE the LDAP configuration resides in the portal-ext.properties. If an administrator goes into the LDAP page in the console, we start seeing this error in the logs and log is prevented:

[#|2012-07-03T14:53:17.593-0600|INFO|glassfish3.1.2|javax.enterprise.system.std.com.sun.enterprise.server.logging|_ThreadID=27;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|CONSOLE 2012-07-03 14:53:17,591 1157787 ERROR com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.sso.cas.CASFilter - com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.SystemException: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException: Unexpected close tag </preference>; expected </portlet-preferences>.
at [row,col

{unknown-source}]: [1,221]
com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.SystemException: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException: Unexpected close tag </preference>; expected </portlet-preferences>.
at [row,col {unknown-source}

]: [1,221]
at com.liferay.portlet.PortletPreferencesFactoryImpl.populateMap(PortletPreferencesFactoryImpl.java:584)
at com.liferay.portlet.PortletPreferencesFactoryImpl.fromXML(PortletPreferencesFactoryImpl.java:115)
at com.liferay.portlet.PortletPreferencesFactoryImpl.fromXML(PortletPreferencesFactoryImpl.java:1)
at com.liferay.portlet.PortletPreferencesFactoryUtil.fromXML(PortletPreferencesFactoryUtil.java:56)
at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.PortalPreferencesLocalServiceImpl.doGetPreferences(PortalPreferencesLocalServiceImpl.java:199)
at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.PortalPreferencesLocalServiceImpl.getPreferences(PortalPreferencesLocalServiceImpl.java:105)
at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.PortalPreferencesLocalServiceImpl.getPreferences(PortalPreferencesLocalServiceImpl.java:92)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor567.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:112)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:71)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:108)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ChainableMethodAdvice.invoke(ChainableMethodAdvice.java:59)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:108)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ChainableMethodAdvice.invoke(ChainableMethodAdvice.java:59)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:108)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ChainableMethodAdvice.invoke(ChainableMethodAdvice.java:59)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:108)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanAopProxy.invoke(ServiceBeanAopProxy.java:211)
at $Proxy199.getPreferences(Unknown Source)
at com.liferay.portal.service.PortalPreferencesLocalServiceUtil.getPreferences(PortalPreferencesLocalServiceUtil.java:276)