Hello all, I've been searching all morning online for clues to the cause of this stack trace:
19:59:54,675 ERROR [CoyoteAdapter] An exception or error occurred in the container during the request processing java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.MessageBytes.toChars(MessageBytes.java :271) at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.mapper.Mapper.map(Mapper.java:510) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.postParseRequest( CoyoteAdapter.java:262) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service( CoyoteAdapter.java:146) at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java :307) at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java :385) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:748) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection( ChannelSocket.java:678) at org.apache.jk.common.SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java :871) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run( ThreadPool.java:684) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) I'm running SLES 9 (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) JBoss 4.0.3SP1 (uses Tomcat 5.5) Apache/2.0.49 (with latest service packs from SuSE) mod_jk/1.2.15 I'm using mod_jk sticky session load balancing (which works great!) for requests to JBoss As you'll notice from the jkmanager screen, one of the servers has quite a few more erorrs than the other. Worker Status for lb_jbossdownload Type Sticky session Force Sticky session Retries Method Lock lb True False 3 Request Optimistic Name Type Host Addr Stat F V Acc Err Wr Rd Busy Max RR Cd jbossdownload1 ajp13 server1:8009 137.65.244.106:8009 OK 1 1 10392 3 0 0 0 10 jbossdownload2 ajp13 server2:8009 137.65.244.109:8009 OK 1 1 10549 174 0 0 0 267 I've compared the configuration on the two systems to each other, been from Google to JBoss forums to Java Forums and haven't found anything related to this yet. Anyone have any ideas of where to look next or seen this before? Thanks in advance -Brent