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Jun Rao commented on KAFKA-464: ------------------------------- Thanks for the patch. I think you always need to call controllerRegisterOrFailover when handling a new session, whether controllerChannelManager is null or not. > KafkaController NPE in SessionExpireListener > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-464 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-464 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: core > Reporter: Jun Rao > Labels: bugs > Fix For: 0.8 > > Attachments: kafka_464.diff > > Original Estimate: 48h > Remaining Estimate: 48h > > Sometime see the following in LogRecoverTest. > [2012-08-15 09:06:01,845] ERROR Error handling event ZkEvent[New session > event sent to kafka.server.KafkaController$SessionExpireListener@e8ae59a] > (org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkEventThread) > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > kafka.server.KafkaController$SessionExpireListener.handleNewSession(KafkaController.scala:284) > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$4.run(ZkClient.java:472) > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkEventThread.run(ZkEventThread.java:71) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira