Has the packet grown over those 16 months? Might just be a memory consumption issue. In my experience "null null" errors often are cause by memory errors, and the infrequency and nonrepeatability also point that way.
cheers, barneyb --- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.barneyb.com On Sep 2, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Mike Vierow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the past 16 months I've been reading an XML document with cffile > and > parsing it into an application variable, all within an exclusive > cflock > on the application scope. From there, I copied the parsed document > using > duplicate() into the request scope for use throughout my application. > About three weeks ago this duplicate call began throwing errors. Since > then several other of my sites began throwing this error, all of them > are hosted at HostMySite CF+ shared hosting. The issue is > intermittent, > happening for around 3-6% of the requests to the site, depending upon > which one. > > The errors encountered are (and they usually appear in this order): > > * The typical "null null" NPE error, java.lang.NullPointerException. > > * INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: An invalid or illegal XML character is > specified. null > > --- Stack trace --- > org.w3c.dom.DOMException: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: An invalid or illegal > XML character is specified. at > org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.createElement(Unknown Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.importNode(Unknown Source) at > org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.importNode(Unknown Source) at > org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.importNode(Unknown Source) at > org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.importNode(Unknown Source) at > org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.importNode(Unknown Source) at > coldfusion.xml.XmlNodeList.Duplicate(XmlNodeList.java:319) at > coldfusion.runtime.ObjectDuplicator._duplicate(ObjectDuplicator.java: > 105) > at > coldfusion.runtime.ObjectDuplicator.duplicate(ObjectDuplicator.java: > 63) > at > coldfusion.runtime.ObjectDuplicator._duplicate(ObjectDuplicator.java: > 126) > at > coldfusion.runtime.ObjectDuplicator.duplicate(ObjectDuplicator.java: > 63) > at coldfusion.runtime.CFPage.Duplicate(CFPage.java:4775) at > cfApplication2ecfm703397020._factor8(C:\Websites > \162552du7\Application.cfm:118) > at > cfApplication2ecfm703397020.runPage(C:\Websites > \162552du7\Application.cfm:1) > at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:196) > > * NAMESPACE_ERR: An attempt is made to create or change an object > in a > way which is incorrect with regard to namespaces. null > > --- Stack trace --- > org.w3c.dom.DOMException: NAMESPACE_ERR: An attempt is made to > create or > change an object in a way which is incorrect with regard to > namespaces. > at org.apache.xerces.dom.ElementNSImpl.setName(Unknown Source) at > org.apache.xerces.dom.ElementNSImpl.<init>(Unknown Source) at > org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.createElementNS(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.importNode(Unknown Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.importNode(Unknown Source) at > org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.importNode(Unknown Source) at > org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.importNode(Unknown Source) at > coldfusion.xml.XmlNodeList.Duplicate(XmlNodeList.java:319) at > coldfusion.runtime.ObjectDuplicator._duplicate(ObjectDuplicator.java: > 105) > at > coldfusion.runtime.ObjectDuplicator.duplicate(ObjectDuplicator.java: > 63) > at > coldfusion.runtime.ObjectDuplicator._duplicate(ObjectDuplicator.java: > 126) > at > coldfusion.runtime.ObjectDuplicator.duplicate(ObjectDuplicator.java: > 63) > at coldfusion.runtime.CFPage.Duplicate(CFPage.java:4775) at > cfApplication2ecfm1694192392._factor8(C:\Websites > \169704wt9\Application.cfm:118) > at > cfApplication2ecfm1694192392.runPage(C:\Websites > \169704wt9\Application.cfm:1) > at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:196) > > > I've tried replacing the XML documents to make sure they haven't > become > corrupt, but despite this I've never run into any issues reading or > parsing the file, only when trying to duplicate it. > > > Here's the guts of the application file. > > <cflock scope="APPLICATION" type="readonly" timeout="60"> > <cfset request.apploaded = IsDefined('APPLICATION.apploaded')> > </cflock> > > <cfif NOT request.apploaded OR isDebugMode()> > <cflock scope="APPLICATION" type="exclusive" timeout="45"> > > <cfif fileExists(expandPath('./themes/templates.xml'))> > <cffile action="read" > file="#expandPath('./themes/templates.xml')#" variable="xTemplate"/> > <cfset APPLICATION.templates = xmlParse(xTemplate)/> > </cfif> > > <cfset APPLICATION.apploaded = TRUE> > </cflock> > </cfif> > > <cflock scope="APPLICATION" type="readonly" timeout="60"> > <cfset request.application = duplicate(APPLICATION)/> > </cflock> > > > > Has anyone seen any of these issues? HMS support has not be helpful in > resolving the issue. I am forcing the application scope to rebuild > itself at this point to limit the effect of the issue, but even still > it's getting out of hand. Any help would be highly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Mike > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:311961 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
