[#LUCENE-449] NullPointerException when temporary directory not readable

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NullPointerException when temporary directory not readable

Created: 10/Oct/05 03:48 PM Updated: 27/May/06 01:33 AM

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Component/s:

None

Affects Version/s:

CVS Nightly - Specify date in submission

Fix Version/s:

1.9

Time Tracking:

Not Specified

File Attachments:

	File Name	Date Attached	Attached By	Size
	unreadable-lockdir.diff	2005-10-10 03:50 PM	Jeff Turner	0.6 kB

Environment:

Lucene 1.4.3 and SVN head (2005-10-10)

Resolution Date:

11/Oct/05 04:34 AM

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We have customers reporting errors such as:

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory.create(FSDirectory.java:200)
at org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory.getDirectory(FSDirectory.java:144)
at org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory.getDirectory(FSDirectory.java:117)
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.<init>(IndexWriter.java:205)
at com.atlassian.jira.util.LuceneUtils.getIndexWriter(LuceneUtils.java:46)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIndexManager.getIndexWriter(DefaultIndexManager.java:568)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIndexManager.indexIssuesAndComments(DefaultIndexManager.java:287)
... 59 more

This occurs when the lock directory is unreadable (eg. because Tomcat sets java.io.tmpdir to temp/ and the permissions here are broken). Attached is

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Jeff Turner added a comment - 10/Oct/05 03:50 PM

..attached is a one-line patch which prints something more useful than a NPE.

Jeff Turner made changes - 10/Oct/05 03:50 PM

Field	Original Value	New Value
Attachment		unreadable-lockdir.diff [ 12314786 ]

Repository	Revision	Date	User	Message
ASF	#312719	Mon Oct 10 19:33:22 UTC 2005	dnaber	better exception if temp directory is not readable, by Jeff Turner (bug ~~LUCENE-449~~)
				Files Changed
				MODIFY /lucene/java/trunk/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/FSDirectory.java

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Daniel Naber added a comment - 11/Oct/05 04:34 AM

Thanks for the patch, it has just been committed.

Daniel Naber made changes - 11/Oct/05 04:34 AM

Resolution		Fixed [ 1 ]
Status	Open [ 1 ]	Resolved [ 5 ]
Fix Version/s		1.9 [ 12310334 ]

Doug Cutting made changes - 27/May/06 01:33 AM

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Resolved [ 5 ]

Closed [ 6 ]