[GEODE-8319] NPE due to locator missing cluster config folder

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.14.0
• Component/s: management
• Assignee: Jinmei Liao
• Reporter: Jinmei Liao
• Created: 29/Jun/20 21:07
• Updated: 03/Sep/21 02:23
• Resolved: 13/Jul/20 22:48

Description

Opening a JIRA because I believe any NPE is unacceptable in the product. Please provide some better more explanatory type of error exception if missing the cluster configuration in the locator.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.InternalConfigurationPersistenceService.loadSharedConfigurationFromDir(InternalConfigurationPersistenceService.java:672)
at org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.InternalConfigurationPersistenceService.initSharedConfiguration(InternalConfigurationPersistenceService.java:435)
at org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.InternalLocator.startConfigurationPersistenceService(InternalLocator.java:1348)
at org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.InternalLocator.startClusterManagementService(InternalLocator.java:733)
at org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.InternalLocator.startCache(InternalLocator.java:729)
at org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.InternalLocator.startDistributedSystem(InternalLocator.java:708)
at org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.InternalLocator.startLocator(InternalLocator.java:374)
at org.apache.geode.distributed.LocatorLauncher.start(LocatorLauncher.java:679)
at com.citi.cate.gemfire.CitiGemFireLocatorStart.run(CitiGemFireLocatorStart.java:47)
at com.citi.cate.gemfire.CitiGemFireLocatorStart.main(CitiGemFireLocatorStart.java:115)

Environment

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5325