[CASSANDRA-8320] 2.1.2: NullPointerException in SSTableWriter

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.3
• Component/s: Legacy/Local Write-Read Paths
• Severity: Normal
• Since Version: 2.1.2
• Assignee: Marcus Eriksson Assign to me
• Reporter: Evgeny Pasynkov

Authors

Marcus Eriksson

Reviewers

Joshua McKenzie

• Created: 14/Nov/14 15:14
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 29/Nov/14 07:23

Description

After upgrading to 2.1.2, I've got tons of these exception in log:

java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.openEarly(SSTableWriter.java:381) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.2.jar:2.1.2]
at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableRewriter.switchWriter(SSTableRewriter.java:295) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.2.jar:2.1.2]
at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableRewriter.abort(SSTableRewriter.java:186) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.2.jar:2.1.2]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionTask.runWith(CompactionTask.java:204) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.2.jar:2.1.2]
at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.DiskAwareRunnable.runMayThrow(DiskAwareRunnable.java:48) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.2.jar:2.1.2]
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:28) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.2.jar:2.1.2]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionTask.executeInternal(CompactionTask.java:75) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.2.jar:2.1.2]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.AbstractCompactionTask.execute(AbstractCompactionTask.java:59) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.2.jar:2.1.2]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionManager$BackgroundCompactionTask.run(CompactionManager.java:232) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.2.jar:2.1.2]
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) ~[na:1.7.0_60]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) ~[na:1.7.0_60]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) ~[na:1.7.0_60]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [na:1.7.0_60]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.7.0_60]

This error is prepended by the following problems:

12:59:59.632 [NonPeriodicTasks:1] ERROR o.a.c.io.sstable.SSTableDeletingTask - Unable to delete E:\Upsource_11959\data\cassandra\data\system\schema_keyspaces-b0f2235744583cdb9631c43e59ce3676\system-schema_keyspaces-ka-4-Data.db (it will be removed on server restart; we'll also retry after GC)