Thanks for the reply Rachana.
This helped me pinpoint the error and it was indeed a failed
authentication at the client side. Everything looks like it is back to
normal now.
Thanks again,
Andre
Rachana Ananthakrishnan wrote:
> This issue was reported and fixed
> http://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/globus/show_bug.cgi?id=6330. Should be part of
> the next point release.
>
> One of the issues that triggered this error was error on client certificate:
> http://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/globus/show_bug.cgi?id=6329.
>
> This is the fix that was committed for the NPE:
> http://viewcvs.globus.org/viewcvs.cgi/wsrf/java/core/source/src/org/globus/w
> srf/container/GSIServiceThread.java?r1=1.5.2.12&r2=1.5.2.13&pathrev=globus_4
> _0_branch
>
> With this fix, you should see the error message printed on the server side.
> To see the whole stack trace, edit
> $GLOBUS_LOCATION/container-log4j.properties to have the following line:
>
> log4j.category.org.globus.wsrf.container.GSIServiceThread=DEBUG
>
> Rachana
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andre Charbonneau
>> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 10:19 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [gt-user] periodic NullPointerException from
>> GSIServiceThread.process
>>
>> Hello,
>> I noticed that a while ago my gt4.0.8 container started to log a
>> NullPointerException in the container.log file every 5
>> minutes, as shown
>> below:
>>
>> 2008-10-27 11:05:38,182 ERROR container.ServiceThread
>> [ServiceThread-89,run:297] Unexpected error during request processing
>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>> at
>> org.globus.wsrf.container.GSIServiceThread.process(GSIServiceT
>> hread.java:151)
>> at
>> org.globus.wsrf.container.ServiceThread.run(ServiceThread.java:291)
>>
>>
>> I tracked down the line in GSIServiceThread.java that throws
>> the exception:
>>
>> } catch (IOException e) {
>> (...)
>> if (msg.indexOf("Token length") != -1) {
>>
>> So it looks like first a IOException is thrown, but the msg is null,
>> which makes line 151 to throw the NullPointerException.
>>
>> I tried restarting the container, and cleaning up the .globus
>> directories but the error just won't go away.
>>
>> Are there any instructions on how I can completely reset the globus
>> container (i.e., remove all persisted data) so that I can
>> start it again
>> for a fresh/pristine state?
>>
>> Anything else I should try that might help me identify the
>> source of the
>> problem?
>>
>> (I'm running a gt4.0.8 installation on SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586), Java:
>> (build 1.6.0_07-b06))
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andre
>>
