[LOG4J2-392] Intermittent errors with appenders

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta8, 2.0-beta9
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-rc2, 2.1
• Component/s: Appenders

Environment

Windows 7 SP1 64bit

• Assignee: Remko Popma
• Reporter: ilynaf
• Created: 05/Sep/13 04:05
• Updated: 12/Sep/20 16:00
• Resolved: 14/Jun/14 16:44

Description

I intermittently receive following errors after upgrading to beta 8. EVERYTHING was working well with beta 6:

• 1st error (happens most frequently)
  2013-09-05 10:48:37,722 ERROR Attempted to append to non-started appender LogFile

• 2nd error:
  2013-09-05 10:49:38,268 ERROR Attempted to append to non-started appender LogFile
  2013-09-05 10:49:38,268 ERROR Unable to write to stream log/ui-selenium-tests.log for appender LogFile
  2013-09-05 10:49:38,269 ERROR An exception occurred processing Appender LogFile org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AppenderRuntimeException: Error writing to RandomAccessFile log/ui-selenium-tests.log
  at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.FastRollingFileManager.flush(FastRollingFileManager.java:108)
  at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.FastRollingFileManager.write(FastRollingFileManager.java:89)
  at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.OutputStreamManager.write(OutputStreamManager.java:129)
  at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AbstractOutputStreamAppender.append(AbstractOutputStreamAppender.java:115)
  at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.FastRollingFileAppender.append(FastRollingFileAppender.java:97)
  at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderControl.callAppender(AppenderControl.java:102)
  at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AsyncAppender$AsyncThread.run(AsyncAppender.java:228)
  Caused by: java.io.IOException: Write error
  at java.io.RandomAccessFile.writeBytes(Native Method)
  at java.io.RandomAccessFile.write(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.FastRollingFileManager.flush(FastRollingFileManager.java:105)
  ... 6 more

Issue Links

• breaks: LOG4J2-539 IllegalArgumentException after editing config, pressing "Reconfigure using XML below"
• is duplicated by: LOG4J2-672 AsyncLogger logs missing
• is duplicated by: LOG4J2-511 Referenced appenders on async appender are shutdown prematurely
• is related to: LOG4J2-2919 "AsyncAppender is not active" when logging with AsynAppender while the system is reconfigure concurrently
• is superceded by: LOG4J2-807 Disruptor is null when configuration is reloaded (asyncRoot + monitorInterval)