[LUCENE-449] NullPointerException when temporary directory not readable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.9

Environment

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

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jeff Turner
• Created: 10/Oct/05 15:48
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 11:23
• Resolved: 11/Oct/05 04:34

Description

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