Greg Ryjikh 2 posts 22 karma points

May 02, 2012 @ 02:35

New Umbraco 4.7.2 installation gives Object reference not set to an instance of an object error

Hi,

I installed latest version 4 (7.7.2.497) version of Umbraco on Windows 7 Professional 64bit. Site is configured to use .NET 4.0. After installation accessing home page is giving "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error (see below). I used fresh SQL Server Express database and imported "Simple Site" content and "Designer Green" css. Installation didn't give me any warnings and I can access backend and see for example "Simple Web Site" content there but home page is giving that:

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
   umbraco.cms.businesslogic.macro.MacroModel..ctor(Macro m) +21
   umbraco.macro..ctor(String alias) +344
   umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Macro.CreateChildControls() +1319
   System.Web.UI.Control.EnsureChildControls() +181
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +132
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1969

Is it anything I can to do to fix it?

Best Regards,

Greg

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Paul Blair 466 posts 731 karma points

May 02, 2012 @ 05:31

have you tried republishing the site since importing "simple Site"?

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Greg Ryjikh 2 posts 22 karma points

May 02, 2012 @ 05:54

No. I didn't. Why that may be required? In fact after trying to use SQL Server compact edition which appeared to be broken in that version too (after adding all required dlls it gave me message that DB can not be "initialized") I downloaded previous stable version 4.7.1 and after installing it exacly the same way everything worked as expected. So I believe that there is something broken either in content distributed with 4.7.2 version or with the code.

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Paul Blair 466 posts 731 karma points

May 03, 2012 @ 00:28

I've set up 2 v4.7.2 sites so far without any issues but they have been clean installs so maybe the "simple site" package has an issue with 4.7.2

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Josh Reid 182 posts 258 karma points

May 08, 2012 @ 05:34

Have the same issue - No Starter Kit - 4.7.2.497 + SQL...

EDIT //

Appears same issue as this one: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/getting-started/installing-umbraco/31274-Error-Upgrading-to-472-Object-Reference-issue

Removing Macros that don't exist from Templates solved it for me.

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Peter Duncanson 430 posts 1360 karma points c-trib

Jun 06, 2012 @ 23:13

I've logged this in CodePlex to be fixed asap hopefully.

http://umbraco.codeplex.com/workitem/30836

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Efe Oseya 5 posts 25 karma points

Jun 22, 2012 @ 12:16

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Arunava 3 posts 23 karma points

Jul 04, 2012 @ 11:13

I am getting the below error while trying to run the web site made in Umbraco.

The url of the site is

Link to document

/umbraco/build/home.aspx

The error I am getting is as follows:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Server Error in '/umbraco/build' Application.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
   umbraco.cms.businesslogic.macro.MacroModel..ctor(Macro m) +21
   umbraco.macro..ctor(String alias) +344
   umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Macro.CreateChildControls() +1319
   System.Web.UI.Control.EnsureChildControls() +181
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +132
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1953

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.225

Request Details
Session Id:	bf4r33d2xlgt4uzpvzn2xh2c	Request Type:	GET
Time of Request:	7/4/2012 2:12:32 PM	Status Code:	500
Request Encoding:	Unicode (UTF-8)	Response Encoding:	Unicode (UTF-8)

Trace Information
Category	Message	From First(s)	From Last(s)
aspx.page	Begin PreInit
umbracoInit	handling request	0.0143673288085497	0.014367
request handler	current url '/home.aspx'	0.13050122292079	0.116134
umbracoRequestHandler	xpath: '/root/*'	0.14122325602835	0.010722
umbracoRequestHandler	xpath: '/root/* [@urlName = "home"] \| /root/*'	0.141342963980059	0.000120
umbracoRequestHandler	xpath: '/root/* [@urlName = "home"] \| /root// [@urlName = "home"]'	0.141396811605944	0.000054
umbracoRequestHandler	Just before xPath query (False, '/root/* [@urlName = "home"] \| /root// [@urlName = "home"]')	0.141425446530215	0.000029
umbracoRequestHandler	pageXPathQueryStart: '/root'	0.14144144018304	0.000016
umbracoRequestHandler	Adding to cache... ('/home.aspx')	0.141587478296823	0.000146
umbracoRequestHandler	After xPath query	0.141611364014141	0.000024
umbracoRequestHandler	Access checking started	0.141649217987202	0.000038
umbracoRequestHandler	Page not protected	0.141675757673112	0.000027
umbracoRequestHandler	Access checking ended	0.141691402119543	0.000016
umbracoInit	Done handling request	0.141707744978761	0.000016
umbracoPage	Element loaded: bodyText	0.320586554995118	0.178879
umbracoPage	Element loaded: siteName	0.320691386754462	0.000105
umbracoPage	Element loaded: cEOsHobbies	0.320740834379789	0.000049
umbracoPage	Element loaded: siteDescription	0.320787069306295	0.000046
umbracoPage	Element loaded: summery	0.32082736772411	0.000040
umbracoPage	Pagedata loaded for Home (ID: 1065)	0.320857539156513	0.000030
umbracoPage	Looking up skin information	0.32093457408693	0.000077
aspx.page	End PreInit	0.561617677665737	0.240683
aspx.page	Begin Init	0.561701766565304	0.000084
item	Start parsing 'pageName'	0.604154787829179	0.042453
item	Done parsing 'pageName'	0.604966413329068	0.000812
item.recursive	Item loaded from 1065	0.60500636254049	0.000040
item	Start parsing 'siteName'	0.605473530853782	0.000467
item	Done parsing 'siteName'	0.605529334035471	0.000056
Unhandled Execution Error	Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at umbraco.cms.businesslogic.macro.MacroModel..ctor(Macro m) at umbraco.macro..ctor(String alias) at umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Macro.CreateChildControls() at System.Web.UI.Control.EnsureChildControls() at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)	0.635970074408898	0.030441

Control Tree
Control UniqueID	Type	Render Size Bytes (including children)	ViewState Size Bytes (excluding children)	ControlState Size Bytes (excluding children)
__Page	ASP.default_aspx	0	0	0
ctl00	ASP.masterpages_umbhomepage_master	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00	ASP.masterpages_umbmaster_master	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00	ASP.umbraco_masterpages_default_master	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault	System.Web.UI.WebControls.ContentPlaceHolder	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl07	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$head	System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlHead	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl00	System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlMeta	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl01	System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlTitle	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl02	System.Web.UI.WebControls.PlaceHolder	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl03	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Item	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl03$ctl00	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl08	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl04	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Item	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl04$ctl00	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl05	System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlLink	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl06	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Macro	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_head	System.Web.UI.WebControls.ContentPlaceHolder	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl09	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top	System.Web.UI.WebControls.ContentPlaceHolder	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl03	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl00	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Item	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl04	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl01	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Item	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl05	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl02	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Macro	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl06	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl10	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
RunwayMasterForm	System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlForm	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl11	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_content	System.Web.UI.WebControls.ContentPlaceHolder	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_content$ctl01	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_content$ctl00	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Item	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_content$ctl02	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl12	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl13	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_footer	System.Web.UI.WebControls.ContentPlaceHolder	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_footer$ctl00	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl14	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0

Session State
Session Key	Type	Value

Application State
Application Key	Type	Value
umbracoUrl	System.String	localhost:80/umbraco/build/umbraco
umbracoNeedConfiguration	System.Boolean	False
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vnc38ykjnkjdnk2jt98ygkxjng

Request Cookies Collection
Name	Value	Size
UMB_UCONTEXT	4adb13eb-832f-451a-8b4a-97ee9426fce3	49
UMB_UPDCHK	1	12
ASP.NET_SessionId	bf4r33d2xlgt4uzpvzn2xh2c	42

Response Cookies Collection
Name	Value	Size

Headers Collection
Name	Value
Connection	Keep-Alive
Accept	/
Accept-Encoding	gzip, deflate
Accept-Language	en-US
Cookie	UMB_UCONTEXT=4adb13eb-832f-451a-8b4a-97ee9426fce3; UMB_UPDCHK=1; ASP.NET_SessionId=bf4r33d2xlgt4uzpvzn2xh2c
Host	localhost
Referer	http://localhost/umbraco/build/umbraco/editContent.aspx?id=1065
User-Agent	Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)

Response Headers Collection
Name	Value
X-AspNet-Version	4.0.30319
Cache-Control	private
Content-Type	text/html

Form Collection
Name	Value

Querystring Collection
Name	Value

Server Variables
Name	Value
ALL_HTTP	HTTP_CONNECTION:Keep-Alive HTTP_ACCEPT:/ HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING:gzip, deflate HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE:en-US HTTP_COOKIE:UMB_UCONTEXT=4adb13eb-832f-451a-8b4a-97ee9426fce3; UMB_UPDCHK=1; ASP.NET_SessionId=bf4r33d2xlgt4uzpvzn2xh2c HTTP_HOST:localhost HTTP_REFERER:http://localhost/umbraco/build/umbraco/editContent.aspx?id=1065 HTTP_USER_AGENT:Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
ALL_RAW	Connection: Keep-Alive Accept: / Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Language: en-US Cookie: UMB_UCONTEXT=4adb13eb-832f-451a-8b4a-97ee9426fce3; UMB_UPDCHK=1; ASP.NET_SessionId=bf4r33d2xlgt4uzpvzn2xh2c Host: localhost Referer: http://localhost/umbraco/build/umbraco/editContent.aspx?id=1065 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
APPL_MD_PATH	/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/umbraco/build
APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH	C:\inetpub\wwwroot\umbraco\build\
AUTH_TYPE
AUTH_USER
AUTH_PASSWORD
LOGON_USER
REMOTE_USER
CERT_COOKIE
CERT_FLAGS
CERT_ISSUER
CERT_KEYSIZE
CERT_SECRETKEYSIZE
CERT_SERIALNUMBER
CERT_SERVER_ISSUER
CERT_SERVER_SUBJECT
CERT_SUBJECT
CONTENT_LENGTH	0
CONTENT_TYPE
GATEWAY_INTERFACE	CGI/1.1
HTTPS	off
HTTPS_KEYSIZE
HTTPS_SECRETKEYSIZE
HTTPS_SERVER_ISSUER
HTTPS_SERVER_SUBJECT
INSTANCE_ID	1
INSTANCE_META_PATH	/LM/W3SVC/1
LOCAL_ADDR	::1
PATH_INFO	/umbraco/build/default.aspx
PATH_TRANSLATED	C:\inetpub\wwwroot\umbraco\build\default.aspx
QUERY_STRING
REMOTE_ADDR	::1
REMOTE_HOST	::1
REMOTE_PORT	1342
REQUEST_METHOD	GET
SCRIPT_NAME	/umbraco/build/default.aspx
SERVER_NAME	localhost
SERVER_PORT	80
SERVER_PORT_SECURE	0
SERVER_PROTOCOL	HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SOFTWARE	Microsoft-IIS/7.5
URL	/umbraco/build/default.aspx
HTTP_CONNECTION	Keep-Alive
HTTP_ACCEPT	/
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING	gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE	en-US
HTTP_COOKIE	UMB_UCONTEXT=4adb13eb-832f-451a-8b4a-97ee9426fce3; UMB_UPDCHK=1; ASP.NET_SessionId=bf4r33d2xlgt4uzpvzn2xh2c
HTTP_HOST	localhost
HTTP_REFERER	http://localhost/umbraco/build/umbraco/editContent.aspx?id=1065
HTTP_USER_AGENT	Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)

Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.225

Please somebody help me to resolve the error.

Thnx

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Dave Clinton 31 posts 106 karma points

Jul 14, 2012 @ 16:58

As mentioned above if you used the Simple Site starter pack you'll need to remove the macro from the "Starterkit Master" template; removing the following line got it to work for me:

"<umbraco:macro alias="BlogRssFeedLink" runat="server"></umbraco:macro>"

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Brendan Rice 538 posts 1101 karma points

Jul 16, 2012 @ 00:36

Go through each teamplate/master page and check that any Macros are registered with Umbraco.

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Ed Chavez 1 post 21 karma points

Jul 19, 2012 @ 16:06

On a "fresh" install of the Starter kit, Dave Clinton's answer (above) is the most specific way to solve it (points to the actual macro that doesn't exist).

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New Umbraco 4.7.2 installation gives Object reference not set to an instance of an object error

Server Error in '/umbraco/build' Application.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Request Details

Trace Information

Control Tree

Session State

Application State

Request Cookies Collection

Response Cookies Collection

Headers Collection

Response Headers Collection

Form Collection

Querystring Collection

Server Variables