2536659 - HTTP 500 Internal Server Error accessing BILP / CMC

• Accessing BI Launchpad (BILP) / Central Management Console (CMC) results in a HTTP 500 Internal Server Error. The login prompt page is never displayed
• Details of the error (displayed on the page and can also be found in stderr.log) show the following:
  
  javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet equinoxbridgeservlet threw exception
  
  Root Cause:
  PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
  SEVERE: Allocate exception for servlet equinoxbridgeservlet
  java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not find framework
  at org.eclipse.equinox.servletbridge.FrameworkLauncher.buildInitialPropertyMap(FrameworkLauncher.java:475)
  at org.eclipse.equinox.servletbridge.FrameworkLauncher.start(FrameworkLauncher.java:314)
  at org.eclipse.equinox.servletbridge.BridgeServlet.init(BridgeServlet.java:148)
  at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)
  
  
• Redeploy of the web applications using wdeploy does not fix the issue

• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (BI) 4.2
• Windows
• Linux / Unix
• Tomcat 8.5

KBA , BI-BIP-DEP , Webapp Deployment, Networking, Vulnerabilities, Webservices , Problem