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  <title>SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener</title>
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  <subtitle>SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-06-20T03:12:42Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-06-20T03:12:42Z</dc:date>
  <entry>
    <title>RE: SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Robert Rayas</name>
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    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=53372883</id>
    <updated>2015-05-04T22:42:12Z</updated>
    <published>2015-05-04T22:42:12Z</published>
    <summary type="html">I started getting this error after changing portal-ext incorrectly. It started working again when I removed the bad lines.</summary>
    <dc:creator>Robert Rayas</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2015-05-04T22:42:12Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>RE: SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Eric Tse</name>
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    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=14596055</id>
    <updated>2012-06-27T10:21:54Z</updated>
    <published>2012-06-27T10:21:54Z</published>
    <summary type="html">have the same experience as yours. if manifest.mf has unix linebreak, it will get stuck. I simply delete this file and it can load successfully, you may try and see if it works for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Born Like:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Eric Tse:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;try to check META-INF\manifest.mf in your webapps\ROOT&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Eric,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you give what I need to check?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;manifest.nf&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manifest-Version: 1.0&lt;br /&gt;Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.8.2&lt;br /&gt;Created-By: 1.5.0_22-b03 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)&lt;br /&gt;Extension-List: crypto&lt;br /&gt;crypto-Extension-Name: javax.crypto&lt;/blockquote&gt;</summary>
    <dc:creator>Eric Tse</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2012-06-27T10:21:54Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>RE: SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Born Like</name>
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    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=14595994</id>
    <updated>2012-06-27T10:12:26Z</updated>
    <published>2012-06-27T10:12:26Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Eric Tse:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;try to check META-INF\manifest.mf in your webapps\ROOT&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Eric,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you give what I need to check?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;manifest.nf&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manifest-Version: 1.0&lt;br /&gt;Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.8.2&lt;br /&gt;Created-By: 1.5.0_22-b03 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)&lt;br /&gt;Extension-List: crypto&lt;br /&gt;crypto-Extension-Name: javax.crypto</summary>
    <dc:creator>Born Like</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2012-06-27T10:12:26Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>RE: SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Eric Tse</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=14595826</id>
    <updated>2012-06-27T09:55:50Z</updated>
    <published>2012-06-27T09:55:50Z</published>
    <summary type="html">try to check META-INF\manifest.mf in your webapps\ROOT</summary>
    <dc:creator>Eric Tse</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2012-06-27T09:55:50Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Born Like</name>
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    <updated>2012-06-27T09:27:27Z</updated>
    <published>2012-06-27T09:27:27Z</published>
    <summary type="html">Hi all,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I tried to deploy my first ext plugin, I got the issue:&lt;br /&gt;INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor D:\liferay6.1.0\liferay-portal-6.1.0-ce-ga1\tomcat-7.0.23\conf\Catalina\localho&lt;br /&gt;st\ROOT.xml&lt;br /&gt;Jun 27, 2012 9:13:11 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart&lt;br /&gt;SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.liferay.portal.spring.context.Port&lt;br /&gt;alContextLoaderListener&lt;br /&gt;java.lang.NullPointerException&lt;br /&gt;        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.HotDeployUtil.reset(HotDeployUtil.java:45)&lt;br /&gt;        at com.liferay.portal.spring.context.PortalContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(PortalContextLoaderListener.&lt;br /&gt;java:127)&lt;br /&gt;        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4765)&lt;br /&gt;        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5260)&lt;br /&gt;        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)&lt;br /&gt;        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:866)&lt;br /&gt;        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:842)&lt;br /&gt;        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:615)&lt;br /&gt;        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:649)&lt;br /&gt;        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1581)&lt;br /&gt;        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)&lt;br /&gt;        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)&lt;br /&gt;        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)&lt;br /&gt;        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)&lt;br /&gt;        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)&lt;br /&gt;        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)&lt;br /&gt;Jun 27, 2012 9:13:11 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal&lt;br /&gt;SEVERE: Error listenerStart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also searched some posts and find out some useful post at: http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/8578278&lt;br /&gt;I checked again,  the issue is still  taken.&lt;br /&gt;The version I use: liferay-portal-6.1.0-ce-ga1, liferay-plugins-sdk-6.1.0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone can help me. All suggestion is appreciated</summary>
    <dc:creator>Born Like</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2012-06-27T09:27:27Z</dc:date>
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