No matter what I have in my log4j.properties, I get the following right after log4j starts:
Error encountered on logger init:[java.lang.NullPointerException] This is my current log4j.properties file, although I've tried many others: log4j.rootLogger=FATAL, CONSOLE log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n I dont know how to get any useful information about this failure, and I cannot discern that I am doing anything wrong. How can I get information from log4j about its failure, and how can I debug this issue with log4j? Thus far I've found no way to get any information on this failure, and it seems like just having a log4j.properties, whether it has contents or no, causes this problem. Here's the output leading to this error: [log.dir.config] not set - looking in [/home/rektide/foo/conf] for logging configuration [/home/rektide/foo/conf/log4j.properties] is a valid file location [/home/rektide/foo/conf/log4j.properties] is a readable file location Error encountered on logger init:[java.lang.NullPointerException] -rektide
