[CASSANDRA-2718] NPE in SSTableWriter when no ReplayPosition availible

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.1
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: T Jake Luciani
• Reporter: T Jake Luciani

Authors

T Jake Luciani

Reviewers

Sylvain Lebresne

• Created: 27/May/11 13:40
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 27/May/11 14:01

Description

The following NPE occurs when durable_writes is set to false

ERROR 09:20:30,378 Fatal exception in thread Thread[FlushWriter:11,5,main]
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:34)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.ReplayPosition$ReplayPositionSerializer.serialize(ReplayPosition.java:127)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.writeMetadata(SSTableWriter.java:209)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.closeAndOpenReader(SSTableWriter.java:187)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.closeAndOpenReader(SSTableWriter.java:173)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.Memtable.writeSortedContents(Memtable.java:253)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.Memtable.access$400(Memtable.java:49)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.Memtable$3.runMayThrow(Memtable.java:270)
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:30)
	... 3 more