Tyler Hobbs created CASSANDRA-6751: -------------------------------------- Summary: Setting -Dcassandra.fd_initial_value_ms Results in NPE Key: CASSANDRA-6751 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6751 Project: Cassandra Issue Type: Bug Components: Core Reporter: Tyler Hobbs Priority: Minor
Start Cassandra with {{-Dcassandra.fd_initial_value_ms}} and you'll get the following stacktrace: {noformat} INFO [main] 2014-02-21 14:45:57,731 StorageService.java (line 617) Starting up server gossip ERROR [main] 2014-02-21 14:45:57,736 CassandraDaemon.java (line 464) Exception encountered during startup java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at org.apache.cassandra.gms.Gossiper.<init>(Gossiper.java:178) at org.apache.cassandra.gms.Gossiper.<clinit>(Gossiper.java:71) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.joinTokenRing(StorageService.java:618) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:583) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:480) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:348) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:447) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:490) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cassandra.gms.FailureDetector.getInitialValue(FailureDetector.java:81) at org.apache.cassandra.gms.FailureDetector.<clinit>(FailureDetector.java:48) ... 8 more ERROR [StorageServiceShutdownHook] 2014-02-21 14:45:57,754 CassandraDaemon.java (line 191) Exception in thread Thread[StorageServiceShutdownHook,5,main] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.cassandra.gms.Gossiper at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService$1.runMayThrow(StorageService.java:550) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:28) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) {noformat} Glancing at the code, this is because the FailureDetector logger isn't initialized when the static initialization of {{INITIAL_VALUE}} happens. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)