There may be some likage while using threadedIndexWriter... The app start as a listener servlet in tomcat6 First start, all ok. First close, none of these lines appear: *INFO: A valid shutdown command was received via the shutdown port. Stopping the Server instance. Sep 29, 2011 3:28:34 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol pause INFO: Pausing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-80"] Sep 29, 2011 3:28:35 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol pause INFO: Pausing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"] Sep 29, 2011 3:28:36 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService stopInternal INFO: Stopping service Catalina
**Sep 29, 2011 3:28:45 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol stop INFO: Stopping ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-80"] Sep 29, 2011 3:28:45 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol stop INFO: Stopping ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"] Sep 29, 2011 3:28:45 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol destroy INFO: Destroying ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-80"] Sep 29, 2011 3:28:45 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol destroy INFO: Destroying ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]* Second start: Exception in thread "pool-1-thread-3" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.lucene.facet.taxonomy.lucene.LuceneTaxonomyWriter.getParent(LuceneTaxonomyWriter.java:724) at org.apache.lucene.facet.index.streaming.CategoryParentsStream.incrementToken(CategoryParentsStream.java:106) at org.apache.lucene.facet.index.streaming.CountingListTokenizer.incrementToken(CountingListTokenizer.java:63) at org.apache.lucene.facet.index.streaming.CategoryTokenizer.incrementToken(CategoryTokenizer.java:48) at org.apache.lucene.index.DocInverterPerField.processFields(DocInverterPerField.java:185) at org.apache.lucene.index.DocFieldProcessorPerThread.processDocument(DocFieldProcessorPerThread.java:278) at org.apache.lucene.index.DocumentsWriter.updateDocument(DocumentsWriter.java:766) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.addDocument(IndexWriter.java:2067) at org.myapp.search.CustomLucene.ThreadedIndexWriter.access$1(ThreadedIndexWriter.java:1) at org.myapp.search.CustomLucene.ThreadedIndexWriter$Job.run(ThreadedIndexWriter.java:39) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)