If you attempt to restart the Sun ONE Application Server after installing a certificate, then enabling security, the restart fails. A message indicates that the server failed to receive a password.
When the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is not enabled, passwords are not cached, which results in the failure of restart. The restart command does not support the transition from non-SSL to SSL enabled mode.
This problem only occurs the first time the server is restarted. Subsequent restarts work fine.
Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds: