title: Jenkins Fails to Start
body: <p>We have a server running FreeBSD 9.1-p17 and Jenkins. I interact with it via PuTTY. We upgraded from Jenkins 1.458 to 1.570, via FreeBSD's ports collection. Due to this problem with starting, we decided to reinstall.</p>
  
  <p>First we uninstalled Jenkins, then we moved the main Jenkins folder (/usr/local/eweru-dev/jenkins) to a backup location, and reinstalled (again, from the ports collection). When we reinstalled, we kept the user 'jenkins' from the last install.</p>
  
  <p>Now, when we try to start Jenkins, we get an error. The error below is from when we try to start it by navigating to /usr/local/share/jenkins and typing <code>java -jar jenkins.war</code>. When we try to run it as a service (with <code>service jenkins onestart</code>), we get a very similar message.</p>
  
  <p>The exception looks similar to the one from <a href="http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/entry/jenkins_hudson_util_awtproblem_java" rel="noreferrer">this blog</a>, but I have tried connecting Jenkins to openjdk 7 and 8 to no avail.</p>
  
  <p>Is information from our old Jenkins install finding its way into this one, breaking stuff? Or maybe there's some compatibility issue with FreeBSD 9.1.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Running from: /usr/local/share/jenkins/jenkins.war
  webroot: $user.home/.jenkins
  Jul 18, 2014 10:53:51 AM winstone.Logger logInternal
  INFO: Beginning extraction from war file
  Jul 18, 2014 10:53:51 AM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info
  INFO: jetty-8.y.z-SNAPSHOT
  Jul 18, 2014 10:53:55 AM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info
  INFO: NO JSP Support for , did not find org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet
  Jenkins home directory: /homes/maxerdwien/.jenkins found at: $user.home/.jenkins
  Jul 18, 2014 10:53:55 AM hudson.util.BootFailure publish
  SEVERE: Failed to initialize Jenkins
  hudson.util.AWTProblem: java.lang.NullPointerException
          at hudson.WebAppMain.contextInitialized(WebAppMain.java:182)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ContextHandler.java:782)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ServletContextHandler.java:424)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java:774)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.startContext(ServletContextHandler.java:249)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1242)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:717)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:494)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:95)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:282)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
          at winstone.Launcher.&lt;init&gt;(Launcher.java:154)
          at winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:354)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
          at Main._main(Main.java:293)
          at Main.main(Main.java:98)
  Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
          at sun.awt.X11FontManager.getDefaultPlatformFont(X11FontManager.java:779)
          at sun.font.SunFontManager$2.run(SunFontManager.java:433)
          at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
          at sun.font.SunFontManager.&lt;init&gt;(SunFontManager.java:376)
          at sun.awt.X11FontManager.&lt;init&gt;(X11FontManager.java:32)
          at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
          at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
          at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:374)
          at sun.font.FontManagerFactory$1.run(FontManagerFactory.java:83)
          at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
          at sun.font.FontManagerFactory.getInstance(FontManagerFactory.java:74)
          at java.awt.Font.getFont2D(Font.java:490)
          at java.awt.Font.getFamily(Font.java:1219)
          at java.awt.Font.getFamily_NoClientCode(Font.java:1193)
          at java.awt.Font.getFamily(Font.java:1185)
          at java.awt.Font.toString(Font.java:1682)
          at hudson.util.ChartUtil.&lt;clinit&gt;(ChartUtil.java:229)
          at hudson.WebAppMain.contextInitialized(WebAppMain.java:181)
          ... 19 more
  
  Jul 18, 2014 10:53:56 AM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog warn
  WARNING: Failed startup of context w.{,file:/home/maxerdwien/.jenkins/war/},/homes/maxerdwien/.jenkins/war
  java.lang.NullPointerException
          at jenkins.util.groovy.GroovyHookScript.run(GroovyHookScript.java:63)
          at hudson.util.BootFailure.publish(BootFailure.java:43)
          at hudson.WebAppMain.contextInitialized(WebAppMain.java:244)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ContextHandler.java:782)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ServletContextHandler.java:424)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java:774)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.startContext(ServletContextHandler.java:249)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1242)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:717)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:494)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:95)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:282)
          at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:64)
          at winstone.Launcher.&lt;init&gt;(Launcher.java:154)
          at winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:354)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
          at Main._main(Main.java:293)
          at Main.main(Main.java:98)
  
  Jul 18, 2014 10:53:56 AM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info
  INFO: Started SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:8080
  Jul 18, 2014 10:53:56 AM winstone.Logger logInternal
  INFO: Winstone Servlet Engine v2.0 running: controlPort=disabled
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help would be very appreciated. I've been googling for days.</p>