Vintage Arena throwing errors while logging in

agsharath

The topcoder vintage arena is throwing exceptions since yesterday. Seems like some certificate has expired

Attaching the java stack trace

Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path validation failed: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: validity check failed
    at java.base/sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doValidate(PKIXValidator.java:369)
    at java.base/sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:263)
    at java.base/sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:264)
    at java.base/sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.validate(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:313)
    at java.base/sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:222)
    at java.base/sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:129)
    at java.base/sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.checkServerCerts(CertificateMessage.java:638)

agsharath

Any update? would really appreciate an ack or a nack on this issue from the admins

agsharath

Any update? still getting the errors. P.S I am running it on ubuntu 22.04

jaya.dhaka

Sorry for the inconvience caused. We have made some changes. can you please check now?

Ghostar

Hi @agsharath - Sorry for the delay, we're digging into it.

agsharath

I'm still getting the same error after re downloading the arena. Plz fix it asap. Unable to do anything until then

jaya.dhaka

Thank you for checking this. Our team is investigating the issue, in the meantime please open a support ticket at support@topcoder.com.

agsharath

Now the arena is not even starting up. It immediately exits with an error

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/awt/AWTSecurityManager
    at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPRuntime.initialize(JNLPRuntime.java:261)
    at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot.init(Boot.java:349)
    at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JnlpBoot.run(JnlpBoot.java:58)
    at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot.run(Boot.java:270)
    at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot.run(Boot.java:63)
    at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:318)
    at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot.main(Boot.java:210)

DaraK

The product team is looking into this @agsharath. Will keep you updated.

agsharath

After almost a month, still the issue remains. The arena used to be the most important way to interface with topcoder. And it has been down for a month. Pretty sad state of affairs compared to few years back..

DaraK

@agsharath: This has been solved a few days ago. Is it working for you now?