Problem Summary: If a user accesses the Web Console immediately after an administrator has restarted Service Registry, and if the first action the user performs is to log in, an exception occurs when the user attempts a search. The exception looks like this:
An error has occurred. See below for details: Could not initialize the Search panel. java.lang.NullPointerException Check the server log for more details or contact your Registry Administrator.
Workaround: If you access the Web Console immediately after a server restart, perform a search first, then log in.