I'm running glassfish 3.1.2 on Debian 6 (a VM on Mac OS X 10.8 host). Default domain1 starts OK, system listens on tcp port 4848, the 'Admin console loading' page is displayed for a duration of at least one coffee-break. When I reload a page as advised (as I'm not redirected anywhere), the page displays the copyright message, and nothing else happens neither with reload nor without. This was tried with Firefox (Java functionality tested at java.net page), Chrome and Safari.
Please advise.
PS The log file has this to say: [#|2013-01-22T15:41:17.998+0100|WARNING|glassfish3.1.2|javax.enterprise.system.container.web.com.sun.enterprise.web|_ThreadID=22;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|ApplicationDispatcher[] PWC1231: Servlet.service() for servlet FacesServlet threw exception java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Cannot create XMLStreamReader or XMLEventReader from a javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource at com.sun.xml.internal.stream.XMLInputFactoryImpl.jaxpSourcetoXMLInputSource(XMLInputFactoryImpl.java:283) at com.sun.xml.internal.stream.XMLInputFactoryImpl.createXMLStreamReader(XMLInputFactoryImpl.java:143) at org.jvnet.hk2.config.ConfigParser.parse(ConfigParser.java:115) at org.jvnet.hk2.config.ConfigParser.parse(ConfigParser.java:110) at org.jvnet.hk2.config.ConfigParser.parse(ConfigParser.java:106) at org.glassfish.admingui.plugin.ConsolePluginService.init(ConsolePluginService.java:126) at org.glassfish.admingui.plugin.ConsolePluginService.getIntegrationPoints(ConsolePluginService.java:428) at org.glassfish.admingui.common.handlers.PluginHandlers.getIntegrationPoints(PluginHandlers.java:164) at org.glassfish.admingui.handlers.ThemeHandlers.getThemeFromIntegrationPoints(ThemeHandlers.java:102) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.handler.Handler.invoke(Handler.java:442) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.LayoutElementBase.dispatchHandlers(LayoutElementBase.java:420) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.LayoutElementBase.dispatchHandlers(LayoutElementBase.java:394) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.LayoutComponent.beforeCreate(LayoutComponent.java:348) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.LayoutComponent.getChild(LayoutComponent.java:288) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.LayoutViewHandler.buildUIComponentTree(LayoutViewHandler.java:556) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.LayoutViewHandler.createView(LayoutViewHandler.java:255) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase.execute(RestoreViewPhase.java:247) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase.doPhase(RestoreViewPhase.java:116) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:118) at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:593) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.service(StandardWrapper.java:1550) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInvoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:809) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:671) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:505) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doDispatch(ApplicationDispatcher.java:476) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.dispatch(ApplicationDispatcher.java:355) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:305) at org.glassfish.admingui.common.security.AdminConsoleAuthModule.validateRequest(AdminConsoleAuthModule.java:232) at com.sun.enterprise.security.jmac.config.GFServerConfigProvider$GFServerAuthContext.validateRequest(GFServerConfigProvider.java:1171) at com.sun.web.security.RealmAdapter.validate(RealmAdapter.java:1452) at com.sun.web.security.RealmAdapter.invokeAuthenticateDelegate(RealmAdapter.java:1330) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:551) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:623) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:595) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:161) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:331) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:231) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper$AdapterCallable.call(ContainerMapper.java:317) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:195) at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:860) at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:757) at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:1056) at com.sun.grizzly.http.DefaultProtocolFilter.execute(DefaultProtocolFilter.java:229) at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.executeProtocolFilter(DefaultProtocolChain.java:137) at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:104) at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:90) at com.sun.grizzly.http.HttpProtocolChain.execute(HttpProtocolChain.java:79) at com.sun.grizzly.ProtocolChainContextTask.doCall(ProtocolChainContextTask.java:54) at com.sun.grizzly.SelectionKeyContextTask.call(SelectionKeyContextTask.java:59) at com.sun.grizzly.ContextTask.run(ContextTask.java:71) at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:532) at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:513) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) |#]