Deployment Manager failed to start with error message WSVR0009E

Symptom

[10/7/11 0:35:53:145 EDT] 0000000a SSLComponentI A CWPKI0007I: SSL service failed to start successfully

[10/7/11 0:35:53:173 EDT] 0000000a WsServerImpl E WSVR0009E: Error occurred during startup

META-INF/ws-server-components.xml

[10/7/11 0:35:53:190 EDT] 0000000a WsServerImpl E WSVR0009E: Error occurred during startup

com.ibm.ws.exception.ConfigurationError: com.ibm.ws.exception.ConfigurationError: com.ibm.websphere.crypto.KeyException: java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.ibm.ws.runtime.WsServerImpl.bootServerContainer(WsServerImpl.java:185)

at com.ibm.ws.runtime.WsServerImpl.start(WsServerImpl.java:140)

at com.ibm.ws.runtime.WsServerImpl.main(WsServerImpl.java:461)

at com.ibm.ws.runtime.WsServer.main(WsServer.java:59)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:79)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:618)

at com.ibm.wsspi.bootstrap.WSLauncher.launchMain(WSLauncher.java:183)

at com.ibm.wsspi.bootstrap.WSLauncher.main(WSLauncher.java:90)

at com.ibm.wsspi.bootstrap.WSLauncher.run(WSLauncher.java:72)

at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:78)

at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:92)

at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:68)

at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:400)

at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:177)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:79)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:618)

at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:336)

at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:280)

at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:977)

at com.ibm.wsspi.bootstrap.WSPreLauncher.launchEclipse(WSPreLauncher.java:321)

at com.ibm.wsspi.bootstrap.WSPreLauncher.main(WSPreLauncher.java:89)

Caused by: com.ibm.ws.exception.ConfigurationError: com.ibm.websphere.crypto.KeyException: java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.ibm.ws.ssl.core.SSLComponentImpl.initialize(SSLComponentImpl.java:204)

at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ContainerImpl.initializeComponent(ContainerImpl.java:1338)

at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ContainerImpl.initializeComponents(ContainerImpl.java:1136)

at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ServerImpl.initialize(ServerImpl.java:355)

at com.ibm.ws.runtime.WsServerImpl.bootServerContainer(WsServerImpl.java:178)

... 24 more

Caused by: com.ibm.websphere.crypto.KeyException: java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.ibm.ws.crypto.config.KeySetGroupManager.initializeKeySetGroups(KeySetGroupManager.java:107)

at com.ibm.ws.ssl.core.SSLComponentImpl.initialize(SSLComponentImpl.java:171)

... 28 more

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.ibm.ws.crypto.config.WSScheduler.WSSchedulerInit(WSScheduler.java:73)

at com.ibm.ws.crypto.config.WSScheduler.<init>(WSScheduler.java:66)

at com.ibm.ws.crypto.config.WSKeySetGroup.<init>(WSKeySetGroup.java:63)

at com.ibm.ws.crypto.config.KeySetGroupManager.initializeKeySetGroups(KeySetGroupManager.java:93)

... 29 more