Hi Kevin,

Would you please provide more info about the setup? Is this a failover or
manual job restart with or without a change of parallelism (rescale)?


Best,
Zakelly



On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM Kevin Kim <[email protected]> wrote:

> Has anyone seen this NullPointerException after enabling checkpoint file
> merging? I'm running a job with Flink 1.20.2 with these configs:
>
> execution.checkpointing.file-merging.enabled: true
> execution.checkpointing.file-merging.max-file-size: 32m
> execution.checkpointing.timeout: "10min"
> execution.checkpointing.tolerable-failed-checkpoints: 3
> execution.checkpointing.min-pause: "2min"
> execution.checkpointing.interval: "2min"
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at
> org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.filemerging.FileMergingSnapshotManagerBase.isManagedByFileMergingManager(FileMergingSnapshotManagerBase.java:927)
> at
> org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.filemerging.FileMergingSnapshotManagerBase.lambda$restoreStateHandles$11(FileMergingSnapshotManagerBase.java:866)
> at java.base/java.util.HashMap.computeIfAbsent(HashMap.java:1220)
> at
> org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.filemerging.FileMergingSnapshotManagerBase.lambda$restoreStateHandles$12(FileMergingSnapshotManagerBase.java:861)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.accept(ForEachOps.java:183)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:197)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$2$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:179)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.accept(ForEachOps.java:183)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.accept(ForEachOps.java:183)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$2$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:179)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.accept(ForEachOps.java:183)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:197)
> at
> java.base/java.util.ArrayList$ArrayListSpliterator.forEachRemaining(ArrayList.java:1625)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:509)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:499)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:150)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:173)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.forEach(ReferencePipeline.java:596)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$7$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:276)
> at
> java.base/java.util.Spliterators$ArraySpliterator.forEachRemaining(Spliterators.java:992)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:509)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:499)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:150)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:173)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.forEach(ReferencePipeline.java:596)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$7$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:276)
> at java.base/java.util.ArrayList$Itr.forEachRemaining(ArrayList.java:1003)
> at
> java.base/java.util.Spliterators$IteratorSpliterator.forEachRemaining(Spliterators.java:1845)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.Streams$ConcatSpliterator.forEachRemaining(Streams.java:734)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:509)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:499)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:150)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:173)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.forEach(ReferencePipeline.java:596)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$7$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:276)
> at
> java.base/java.util.Spliterators$ArraySpliterator.forEachRemaining(Spliterators.java:992)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:509)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:499)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:150)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:173)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234)
> at
> java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.forEach(ReferencePipeline.java:596)
> at
> org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.filemerging.FileMergingSnapshotManagerBase.restoreStateHandles(FileMergingSnapshotManagerBase.java:858)
> at
> org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.filemerging.SubtaskFileMergingManagerRestoreOperation.restore(SubtaskFileMergingManagerRestoreOperation.java:102)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.registerRestoredStateToFileMergingManager(StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.java:353)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.streamOperatorStateContext(StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.java:163)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator.initializeState(AbstractStreamOperator.java:275)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.RegularOperatorChain.initializeStateAndOpenOperators(RegularOperatorChain.java:106)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.restoreStateAndGates(StreamTask.java:858)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.lambda$restoreInternal$5(StreamTask.java:812)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTaskActionExecutor$1.call(StreamTaskActionExecutor.java:55)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.restoreInternal(StreamTask.java:812)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.restore(StreamTask.java:771)
> at
> org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.runWithSystemExitMonitoring(Task.java:970)
> at
> org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.restoreAndInvoke(Task.java:939)
> at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.doRun(Task.java:763)
> at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:575)
> at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)
>

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