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When i installed Cordys Bop4.2 CU1 i ran into two problems which i wanted to share with you. My environment: Windows Server 8 R2, MySql 5.5, Java 1.7 I followed the installation documentation of Cordys:  https://wiki.cordys.com/display/bop42/Cordys+BOP+4.2+Documentation I was able to install CARS without any problems. The I installed BOP with default configurations. I had a clean database, so I let Cordys create the database, but then the installation failed with a "Could not execute database scripts". I contacted Cordys and this appeared to be a known bug. You have to create the database schema first: CREATE DATABASE %CordysDatabase% DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci; GRANT ALL ON Cordys.* TO root IDENTIFIED BY '%password%'; So happy that this worked, I installed it again and it went fine. Until the base packages had to be installed. It failed with a NULL pointer exception with an error message I did not understand.  It turned...