Hello everyone,
I have successfully installed DSpace(version dspace-1.5.1, PostgreSQL8.3, 
apache-ant-1.7.1, apache-maven-2.0.10, apache-tomcat-6.0.18).

But I could NOT complete submissions. The problem occurs while submitting an 
item for the collection. At the last step, once pressing "I grant the License", 
Internal System error, "The system has experienced an internal error. Please 
try to do what you were doing again, and if the problem persists, please 
contact us so we can fix the problem",  always shows up. The log file for 
dspace is as fellowing:
Something should be mentioned here. In the dspace.cfg file, email settings were 
all comment out. That means email settings were not set up at all. Could it be 
the factor?

03-13 11:11:04,505 ERROR org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SubmissionController @ 
Error loading step class'org.dspace.submit.step.CompleteStep':
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at java.util.Hashtable.put(Unknown Source)
 at org.dspace.core.Email.send(Email.java:267)
 at 
org.dspace.workflow.WorkflowManager.notifyGroupOfTask(WorkflowManager.java:898)
 at org.dspace.workflow.WorkflowManager.doState(WorkflowManager.java:551)
 at org.dspace.workflow.WorkflowManager.doState(WorkflowManager.java:516)
 at org.dspace.workflow.WorkflowManager.start(WorkflowManager.java:201)
 at org.dspace.submit.step.CompleteStep.doProcessing(CompleteStep.java:115)
 at 
org.dspace.app.webui.submit.JSPStepManager.doStepStart(JSPStepManager.java:331)
 at 
org.dspace.app.webui.submit.JSPStepManager.processStep(JSPStepManager.java:278)
 at 
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SubmissionController.doStep(SubmissionController.java:404)
 at 
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SubmissionController.doNextStep(SubmissionController.java:474)
 at 
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SubmissionController.doStep(SubmissionController.java:420)
 at 
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SubmissionController.doDSPost(SubmissionController.java:342)
 at 
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet.processRequest(DSpaceServlet.java:147)
 at org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet.doPost(DSpaceServlet.java:105)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
 at 
org.dspace.app.webui.filter.RegisteredOnlyFilter.doFilter(RegisteredOnlyFilter.java:98)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
 at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
 at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)
 at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:857)
 at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:565)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1509)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)



The following is the email settings in dspace.cfg file
##### Email settings ######

# SMTP mail server
# mail.server=smtp.myu.edu

# SMTP mail server authentication username and password (if required)
# mail.server.username = myusername
# mail.server.password = mypassword

# SMTP mail server alternate port (defaults to 25)
# mail.server.port = 25

# From address for mail
# mail.from.address = dspace-nore...@myu.edu

# Currently limited to one recipient!
# feedback.recipient = dspace-h...@myu.edu

# General site administration (Webmaster) e-mail
# mail.admin = dspace-h...@myu.edu

# Recipient for server errors and alerts
# alert.recipient = email-address-here

# Recipient for new user registration emails
# registration.notify = email-address-here

# Set the default mail character set. This may be over ridden by providing a 
line
# inside the email template "charset: <encoding>", otherwise this default is 
used.
#mail.charset = UTF8

Please help me solve this problem.
Your effort is greatly appreciated. And Thank you in advance.

Wenling Ma
Sacred Heart University
m...@sacredheart.edu<mailto:m...@sacredheart.edu>

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