Sumanth,

Do you happen to still have the stack traces around?  Unless we do
some breaking/API unfriendly thing such issues should simply not
occur.  Want to make sure we understand what is happening here.

Thanks
Joe

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Sumanth Chinthagunta <[email protected]> wrote:
> I noticed similar error when I have my flow using older version of a custom
> nar and when I deployed new version of nar with package refactoring.
> My workaround to bring the server back is to redeploy old nar, start nifi
> and delete the flow then recreate the flow after deploying refactored nar.
> Nifi should start even a nar file is replaced or removed.
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 9:21 AM Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Ok so in seeing this part of the stackdump we know there is a
>> 'classpath thing' going on
>>
>>    "Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
>> org.mitre.nifi.NiFiNITFReader"
>>
>> And we see from your provided info that your jar does contain such a class
>>
>>   "22243 Wed Oct 21 10:36:46 EDT 2015 org/mitre/nifi/NiFiNITFReader.class"
>>
>> And we see that you have a service loader manifest
>>
>>   "808 Wed Oct 21 10:36:42 EDT 2015
>> META-INF/services/org.apache.nifi.processor.Processor"
>>
>> QUESTIONS:
>> -------------------
>> Can you please provide content of that service manifest file?
>>
>> Also can you please provide the log information that writes out on
>> startup which shows the processors/extensions that load?
>>
>> It looks like this...
>>
>> 2015-10-21 09:20:32,520 INFO [main]
>> org.apache.nifi.nar.ExtensionManager Extension Type Mapping to
>> Classloader:
>>         === ProvenanceEventRepository type || Classloader ===
>>         org.apache.nifi.provenance.PersistentProvenanceRepository ||
>>
>> org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoader[./work/nar/extensions/nifi-provenance-repository-nar-0.3.1-SNAPSHOT.nar-unpacked]
>>         org.apache.nifi.provenance.VolatileProvenanceRepository ||
>>
>> org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoader[./work/nar/extensions/nifi-provenance-repository-nar-0.3.1-SNAPSHOT.nar-unpacked]
>>         === End ProvenanceEventRepository types ===
>>         === Processor type || Classloader ===
>>         org.apache.nifi.processors.hl7.RouteHL7 ||
>>
>> org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoader[./work/nar/extensions/nifi-hl7-nar-0.3.1-SNAPSHOT.nar-unpacked]
>>         org.apache.nifi.processors.standard.MergeContent ||
>>
>> org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoader[./work/nar/extensions/nifi-standard-nar-0.3.1-SNAPSHOT.nar-unpacked]
>>         org.apache.nifi.processors.standard.EncryptContent ||
>>
>> org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoader[./work/nar/extensions/nifi-standard-nar-0.3.1-SNAPSHOT.nar-unpacked]
>>         org.apache.nifi.processors.aws.s3.PutS3Object ||
>>
>> org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoader[./work/nar/extensions/nifi-aws-nar-0.3.1-SNAPSHOT.nar-unpacked]
>> .....
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Joe
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Jones, Patrick L. <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Howdy,
>> >
>> >                I have created my own processor which I have been testing
>> with NiFi for a while now. This stuff used to work for me, now it doesn't.
>> Today nifi won't start.  The nifi-app.log is below
>> > The processor reads in an image type NITF and does a few things with
>> it.  I do a:
>> > $ mvn install
>> >
>> > from ~/nifi-0.3.0/nifi-mitre-bundle/ which is where my software is. I
>> then
>> > $ cp
>> ~/nifi-0.3.0/nifi-mitre-bundle/nifi-mitre-nar/target/nifi-mitre-nar-1.0-SNAPSHOT.nar
>> ../lib/
>> >
>> > When I start nifi the nifi-app.log shows the below exception with the
>> bottom line being
>> > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
>> org.mitre.nifi.NiFiNITFReader
>> >
>> > I looked in my lib/nifi-mitre-nar-1.0-SNAPSHOT.nar it contains
>> >     0 Wed Oct 21 10:36:50 EDT 2015 META-INF/
>> >    152 Wed Oct 21 10:36:48 EDT 2015 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
>> >      0 Wed Oct 21 10:36:48 EDT 2015 META-INF/bundled-dependencies/
>> > ...
>> > 22201 Wed Oct 21 10:36:48 EDT 2015
>> META-INF/bundled-dependencies/nifi-mitre-processors-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
>> > ...
>> >   2963 Wed Oct 21 10:36:48 EDT 2015 META-INF/DEPENDENCIES
>> > 11358 Wed Oct 21 10:36:48 EDT 2015 META-INF/LICENSE
>> >    155 Wed Oct 21 10:36:48 EDT 2015 META-INF/NOTICE
>> >      0 Wed Oct 21 10:36:50 EDT 2015 META-INF/maven/
>> >      0 Wed Oct 21 10:36:50 EDT 2015 META-INF/maven/mitre/
>> >      0 Wed Oct 21 10:36:50 EDT 2015 META-INF/maven/mitre/nifi-mitre-nar/
>> >   1562 Fri Oct 09 11:19:10 EDT 2015
>> META-INF/maven/mitre/nifi-mitre-nar/pom.xml
>> >    111 Wed Oct 21 10:36:48 EDT 2015
>> META-INF/maven/mitre/nifi-mitre-nar/pom.properties
>> >
>> > I then unjarred the .nar file and looked at
>> META-INF/bundled-dependencies/nifi-mitre-processors-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
>> >
>> > $ jar tvf
>> ~/dum/META-INF/bundled-dependencies/nifi-mitre-processors-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
>> >      0 Wed Oct 21 10:36:48 EDT 2015 META-INF/
>> >    412 Wed Oct 21 10:36:46 EDT 2015 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
>> >      0 Wed Oct 21 10:36:42 EDT 2015 META-INF/services/
>> >      0 Wed Oct 21 10:36:44 EDT 2015 org/
>> >      0 Wed Oct 21 10:36:44 EDT 2015 org/mitre/
>> >      0 Wed Oct 21 10:36:46 EDT 2015 org/mitre/nifi/
>> >   2730 Wed Oct 21 10:36:42 EDT 2015 META-INF/DEPENDENCIES
>> > 11358 Wed Oct 21 10:36:42 EDT 2015 META-INF/LICENSE
>> >    162 Wed Oct 21 10:36:42 EDT 2015 META-INF/NOTICE
>> >    808 Wed Oct 21 10:36:42 EDT 2015
>> META-INF/services/org.apache.nifi.processor.Processor
>> >   2796 Wed Oct 21 10:36:46 EDT 2015 org/mitre/nifi/NiFiNITFReader$1.class
>> >   2025 Wed Oct 21 10:36:44 EDT 2015 org/mitre/nifi/NITFNiFiIoReader.class
>> > 22243 Wed Oct 21 10:36:46 EDT 2015 org/mitre/nifi/NiFiNITFReader.class
>> >      0 Wed Oct 21 10:36:48 EDT 2015 META-INF/maven/
>> >      0 Wed Oct 21 10:36:48 EDT 2015 META-INF/maven/mitre/
>> >      0 Wed Oct 21 10:36:48 EDT 2015
>> META-INF/maven/mitre/nifi-mitre-processors/
>> >   4053 Wed Oct 14 11:23:52 EDT 2015
>> META-INF/maven/mitre/nifi-mitre-processors/pom.xml
>> >    118 Wed Oct 21 10:36:48 EDT 2015
>> META-INF/maven/mitre/nifi-mitre-processors/pom.properties
>> >
>> > I see org/mitre/nifi/NiFiNITFReader.class in the jar file.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts on what the problem is?
>> >
>> > Thank you
>> >
>> > Patrick Jones
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ------------- nifi-app.log ---
>> > ...
>> > 2015-10-21 10:44:44,147 INFO [main]
>> o.a.n.w.c.ApplicationStartupContextListener Starting Flow Controller...
>> > 2015-10-21 10:44:44,484 WARN [main]
>> o.a.nifi.fingerprint.FingerprintFactory Unable to create Processor of type
>> org.mitre.nifi.NiFiNITFReader due to
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.exception.ProcessorInstantiationException:
>> org.mitre.nifi.NiFiNITFReader; its default properties will be fingerprinted
>> instead of being ignored.
>> > 2015-10-21 10:44:44,536 WARN [main]
>> o.a.nifi.fingerprint.FingerprintFactory Unable to create Processor of type
>> org.mitre.nifi.NiFiNITFReader due to
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.exception.ProcessorInstantiationException:
>> org.mitre.nifi.NiFiNITFReader; its default properties will be fingerprinted
>> instead of being ignored.
>> > 2015-10-21 10:44:44,607 INFO [main]
>> o.a.n.c.s.StandardControllerServiceProvider No Controller Services to enable
>> > 2015-10-21 10:44:44,703 WARN [main]
>> org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext Failed startup of context
>> o.e.j.w.WebAppContext@59d5a6fd
>> {/nifi-api,file:/home/plj/nifi-0.3.0/work/jetty/nifi-web-api-0.3.0.war/webapp/,STARTING}{./work/nar/framework/nifi-framework-nar-0.3.0.nar-unpacked/META-INF/bundled-dependencies/nifi-web-api-0.3.0.war}
>> > org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowSynchronizationException:
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.exception.ProcessorInstantiationException:
>> org.mitre.nifi.NiFiNITFReader
>> >                at
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.StandardFlowSynchronizer.sync(StandardFlowSynchronizer.java:317)
>> ~[nifi-framework-core-0.3.0.jar:0.3.0]
>> >                at
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowController.synchronize(FlowController.java:1160)
>> ~[nifi-framework-core-0.3.0.jar:0.3.0]
>> > ...
>> >                at org.apache.nifi.NiFi.main(NiFi.java:227)
>> [nifi-runtime-0.3.0.jar:0.3.0]
>> > Caused by:
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.exception.ProcessorInstantiationException:
>> org.mitre.nifi.NiFiNITFReader
>> >                at
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowController.instantiateProcessor(FlowController.java:864)
>> ~[nifi-framework-core-0.3.0.jar:0.3.0]
>> > ...
>> >                ... 27 common frames omitted
>> > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
>> org.mitre.nifi.NiFiNITFReader
>> >                at
>> java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) ~[na:1.8.0_60]
>> > ...
>> >                at
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowController.instantiateProcessor(FlowController.java:850)
>> ~[nifi-framework-core-0.3.0.jar:0.3.0]
>> >                ... 30 common frames omitted
>> > 2015-10-21 10:44:45,345 INFO [main]
>> o.e.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler Started
>> o.e.j.w.WebAppContext@5fd8dd66
>> {/nifi-content-viewer,file:/home/plj/nifi-...
>> > 2015-10-21 10:44:45,631 INFO [main] org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server
>> Started @33273ms
>> > 2015-10-21 10:44:45,644 WARN [main]
>> org.apache.nifi.web.server.JettyServer Failed to start web server...
>> shutting down.
>> > org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowSynchronizationException:
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.exception.ProcessorInstantiationException:
>> org.mitre.nifi.NiFiNITFReader
>> >                at
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.StandardFlowSynchronizer.sync(StandardFlowSynchronizer.java:317)
>> ~[nifi-framework-core-0.3.0.jar:0.3.0]
>> > ...
>> >                at org.apache.nifi.NiFi.<init>(NiFi.java:137)
>> [nifi-runtime-0.3.0.jar:0.3.0]
>> >                at org.apache.nifi.NiFi.main(NiFi.java:227)
>> [nifi-runtime-0.3.0.jar:0.3.0]
>> > Caused by:
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.exception.ProcessorInstantiationException:
>> org.mitre.nifi.NiFiNITFReader
>> >                at
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowController.instantiateProcessor(FlowController.java:864)
>> ~[nifi-framework-core-0.3.0.jar:0.3.0]
>> > ...
>> >                at
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.StandardFlowSynchronizer.sync(StandardFlowSynchronizer.java:271)
>> ~[nifi-framework-core-0.3.0.jar:0.3.0]
>> >                ... 27 common frames omitted
>> > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
>> org.mitre.nifi.NiFiNITFReader
>> >                at
>> java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) ~[na:1.8.0_60]
>> >                at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
>> ~[na:1.8.0_60]
>> >                at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
>> ~[na:1.8.0_60]
>> >                at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_60]
>> >                at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264) ~[na:1.8.0_60]
>> >                at
>> org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowController.instantiateProcessor(FlowController.java:850)
>> ~[nifi-framework-core-0.3.0.jar:0.3.0]
>> >                ... 30 common frames omitted
>> > 2015-10-21 10:44:45,650 INFO [Thread-1] org.apache.nifi.NiFi Initiating
>> shutdown of Jetty web server...
>>

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