Steps to reproduce : I tried derby database for installing ofbiz on trunk revision 788950 and then ran command "ant clean-all && ant run-install". I observed following error (Same error coming for external db i.e postgres):
[java] 2009-06-27 17:18:27,489 (main) [ DatabaseUtil.java:2754:INFO ] Created 2 declared indices for entity [MrpEventType] [java] 2009-06-27 17:18:27,511 (main) [ DatabaseUtil.java:2754:INFO ] Created 2 declared indices for entity [NeedType] [java] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException [java] at org.ofbiz.entity.jdbc.DatabaseUtil.makeIndexClause(DatabaseUtil.java:2811) [java] at org.ofbiz.entity.jdbc.DatabaseUtil.createDeclaredIndex(DatabaseUtil.java:2776) [java] at org.ofbiz.entity.jdbc.DatabaseUtil.createDeclaredIndices(DatabaseUtil.java:2742) [java] at org.ofbiz.entity.jdbc.DatabaseUtil.checkDb(DatabaseUtil.java:397) [java] at org.ofbiz.entity.jdbc.DatabaseUtil.checkDb(DatabaseUtil.java:125) [java] at org.ofbiz.entity.datasource.GenericDAO.checkDb(GenericDAO.java:1090) [java] at org.ofbiz.entity.datasource.GenericHelperDAO.checkDataSource(GenericHelperDAO.java:195) [java] at org.ofbiz.entity.GenericDelegator.<init>(GenericDelegator.java:288) [java] at org.ofbiz.entity.GenericDelegator.getGenericDelegator(GenericDelegator.java:141) [java] at org.ofbiz.entityext.data.EntityDataLoadContainer.start(EntityDataLoadContainer.java:227) [java] at org.ofbiz.base.container.ContainerLoader.start(ContainerLoader.java:101) [java] at org.ofbiz.base.start.Start.startStartLoaders(Start.java:271) [java] at org.ofbiz.base.start.Start.startServer(Start.java:320) [java] at org.ofbiz.base.start.Start.start(Start.java:324) [java] at org.ofbiz.base.start.Start.main(Start.java:407) [java] 2009-06-27 17:18:27,658 (OFBiz_Shutdown_Hook) [ ContainerLoader.java:114:INFO ] Shutting down containers [java] Java Result: 1 Rishi Solanki Enterprise Software Developer HotWax Media Pvt. Ltd.