[CASSANDRA-634] Hinted Handoff Exception

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.5
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Jaakko Laine
• Reporter: Chris Goffinet

Authors

Jaakko Laine

• Created: 15/Dec/09 17:36
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 23/Dec/09 19:44

Description

Updated to the latest codebase from cassandra-0.5 branch. All nodes booted up fine and then I start noticing this error:

ERROR [HINTED-HANDOFF-POOL:1] 2009-12-14 22:05:34,191 CassandraDaemon.java (line 71) Fatal exception in thread Thread[HINTED-HANDOFF-POOL:1,5,main]
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager$1.run(HintedHandOffManager.java:253)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$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.gms.FailureDetector.isAlive(FailureDetector.java:146)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager.sendMessage(HintedHandOffManager.java:106)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager.deliverAllHints(HintedHandOffManager.java:177)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager.access$000(HintedHandOffManager.java:75)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager$1.run(HintedHandOffManager.java:249)
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