GitHub user siosios created a discussion: Cannot load from byte/boolean array
because "m" is null
I'm having a hard time figuring this out, any help would be much appreciated
```
2025-12-16 14:14:29,520 ERROR [cloud.agent.AgentShell] (main:[]) (logid:)
Unable to start agent: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot load from
byte/boolean array because "m" is null
at com.cloud.utils.net.NetUtils.byte2Mac(NetUtils.java:500)
at com.cloud.utils.net.NetUtils.getNetworkParams(NetUtils.java:479)
at com.cloud.utils.net.NetUtils.getNicParams(NetUtils.java:433)
at
com.cloud.resource.ServerResourceBase.isValidNicToUseAsPrivateNic(ServerResourceBase.java:147)
at
com.cloud.resource.ServerResourceBase.tryToAutoDiscoverResourcePrivateNetworkInterface(ServerResourceBase.java:125)
at
com.cloud.resource.ServerResourceBase.configure(ServerResourceBase.java:79)
at
com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.configure(LibvirtComputingResource.java:980)
at com.cloud.agent.Agent.<init>(Agent.java:239)
at com.cloud.agent.AgentShell.launchNewAgent(AgentShell.java:475)
at
com.cloud.agent.AgentShell.launchAgentFromClassInfo(AgentShell.java:454)
at com.cloud.agent.AgentShell.launchAgent(AgentShell.java:438)
at com.cloud.agent.AgentShell.start(AgentShell.java:539)
at com.cloud.agent.AgentShell.main(AgentShell.java:569)
```
GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/discussions/12278
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