Jan Kesten created CASSANDRA-8839:
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             Summary: DatabaseDescriptor throws NPE when rpc_interface is used
                 Key: CASSANDRA-8839
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8839
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Config
         Environment: 2.1.3
            Reporter: Jan Kesten


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When using

- listen_interface instead of listen_address
- rpc_interface instead of rpc_address

starting 2.1.3 throws an NPE:

{code}
ERROR [main] 2015-02-20 07:50:09,661 DatabaseDescriptor.java:144 - Fatal error 
during configuration loading
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.applyConfig(DatabaseDescriptor.java:411)
 ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.3.jar:2.1.3]
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.<clinit>(DatabaseDescriptor.java:133)
 ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.3.jar:2.1.3]
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:110) 
[apache-cassandra-2.1.3.jar:2.1.3]
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:465) 
[apache-cassandra-2.1.3.jar:2.1.3]
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:554) 
[apache-cassandra-2.1.3.jar:2.1.3]
{code}

Occurs on debian package as well as in tar.gz distribution. 

{code}
/* Local IP, hostname or interface to bind RPC server to */
if(conf.rpc_address !=null&& conf.rpc_interface !=null)
{
    throw newConfigurationException("Set rpc_address OR rpc_interface, not 
both");
}
else if(conf.rpc_address !=null)
{
    try
    {
        rpcAddress = InetAddress.getByName(conf.rpc_address);
    }
    catch(UnknownHostException e)
    {
        throw newConfigurationException("Unknown host in rpc_address "+ 
conf.rpc_address);
    }
}
else if(conf.rpc_interface !=null)
{
    listenAddress = 
getNetworkInterfaceAddress(conf.rpc_interface,"rpc_interface");
}
else
{
    rpcAddress = FBUtilities.getLocalAddress();
}
{code}

I think that listenAddress in the second else block is an error. In my case 
rpc_interface is eth0, so listenAddress gets set, and rpcAddress remains unset. 
The result is NPE in line 411:

{code}
if(rpcAddress.isAnyLocalAddress())
{code}

After changing rpc_interface to rpc_address everything works as expected.





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