Lars,

Are you able to share your flow or a template of it so we can try to
recreate?

If not, could you give some information as to what it is doing and what
processors/components are involved.  Are there any custom components?

Thanks!

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:

> 'that deletes the original file'
>
> True but even then that refers to the original source data and not
> what it is in the content repository itself.  The content repository
> error that was emitted about missing flow file exception/content not
> found is for the purpose of signaling data was removed by some process
> outside of NiFi.
>
> Mark Payne: Any ideas?
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Thad Guidry <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > There's a checkbox option in the FetchFile that deletes the original
> file.
> >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/FetchFile.java#L62
> >
> > static final AllowableValue COMPLETION_DELETE = new
> AllowableValue("Delete
> > File", "Delete File", "Deletes the original file from the file system");
> >
> >
> > Perhaps its something along those lines, maybe in his other processors ?
> > He mentioned "I also added another processor feeding that same funnel"
> ...
> > which processor was that exactly ?
> >
> >
> > Thad
> > +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Lars Francke <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the explanation.
> >>
> >> I tried to reproduce but I can't. I also looked through my bash history
> and
> >> I can't find anything suspicious. I'm pretty sure that nothing deleted
> >> files in the content_repository that's not NiFi itself. Everything else
> >> (logs etc.) are all untouched and some content files have survived as
> well.
> >> A few FlowFiles are being processed successfully and I just checked the
> >> creation date of all files in content_repository. Most of them are
> "old".
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Lars,
> >> >
> >> > The information you're providing from the logs is a pretty important
> >> > bit of debug data.
> >> >
> >> > This concept of 'CONTENTMISSING' being recorded into the Flow File
> >> > Repository is NiFI's way of saying "Hey I knew about this flow file
> >> > but when I tried to access the content it was no longer in the content
> >> > repository".  What I'm suggesting is something outside of NiFi itself
> >> > removed the content.  By default, even when you remove content using
> >> > the NiFi API it isn't actually deleting the content until it has to
> >> > and it is asynchronous.  Even if you had restarted NiFi during this I
> >> > don't see how this could occur.
> >> >
> >> > Even if you have some bugs in the custom processor implementations the
> >> > issue you're showing here should not be possible.
> >> >
> >> > The only explanation that makes sense to me so far is that the content
> >> > was actually deleted from within the content repository by something
> >> > other than NiFi.
> >> >
> >> > Can you reproduce the issue?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> > Joe
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Lars Francke <[email protected]
> >
> >> > wrote:
> >> > > Any ideas on how to debug this further?
> >> > >
> >> > > I know very little about the internals of NiFi but there are
> obviously
> >> > > still references to that content and it shouldn't have been deleted.
> >> Can
> >> > > you think of a way I could have done this by accident?
> >> > >
> >> > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:35 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > >> Interesting.  What that suggests is the content has been removed
> from
> >> > >> the content repo itself.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Thanks
> >> > >> Joe
> >> > >>
> >> > >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Lars Francke <
> [email protected]
> >> >
> >> > >> wrote:
> >> > >> > I attached a debugger and checked a few of those FlowFiles that
> >> failed
> >> > >> and
> >> > >> > searched the logs for those. This is what I found:
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > 2016-02-16 18:28:35,953 INFO [main]
> >> > >> o.a.n.c.repository.FileSystemRepository
> >> > >> > Found unknown file
> >> > >> >
> /Users/lars/Downloads/nifi-0.5.0/content_repository/103/14556368398
> >> > >> > 47-103 (1058303 bytes) in File System Repository; archiving file
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > 2016-02-16 18:42:54,840 WARN [Timer-Driven Process Thread-9]
> >> > >> > o.a.n.c.r.WriteAheadFlowFileRepository Repository Record
> >> > >> >
> >> > >>
> >> >
> >>
> StandardRepositoryRecord[UpdateType=CONTENTMISSING,Record=StandardFlowFileRecord[uuid=af69ca83-fc03-41f0-91e1-e3d65da54840,claim=StandardContentClaim
> >> > >> > [resourceClaim=StandardResourceClaim[id=1455636632024-102,
> >> > >> > container=default, section=102], offset=661978,
> >> > >> > length=10],offset=0,name=69321836993544,size=10]] is marked to be
> >> > >> aborted;
> >> > >> > it will be persisted in the FlowFileRepository as a DELETE record
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > Now I can't remember having done this but it's entirely possible
> >> that
> >> > I
> >> > >> > restarted NiFi prior to my experiment described above.
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> >> Lars,
> >> > >> >>
> >> > >> >> Definitely look forward to understanding the mechanics here a
> bit
> >> > >> >> better of what you're seeing and if you can provide something
> >> > >> >> reproducible.  Even if you have a custom processor the
> API/Process
> >> > >> >> Session construct should protect from many of the things that
> can
> >> go
> >> > >> >> wrong there.  Now the content repo will likely be large empty as
> >> the
> >> > >> >> data represents on 888KB of data and it is probably in a
> relative
> >> > >> >> small number of files on disk.
> >> > >> >>
> >> > >> >> Thanks
> >> > >> >> joe
> >> > >> >>
> >> > >> >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Lars Francke <
> >> > [email protected]>
> >> > >> >> wrote:
> >> > >> >> > Hi Matt,
> >> > >> >> >
> >> > >> >> > thanks for the quick response. It's late here so I'll try
> >> > reproducing
> >> > >> >> > tomorrow.
> >> > >> >> >
> >> > >> >> > Source and destination processors are custom processors.
> >> > >> >> > This is Nifi 0.5.0 RC3
> >> > >> >> >
> >> > >> >> > NiFi thinks all FlowFiles are still there: <
> >> > http://imgur.com/isDlRk4>
> >> > >> >> >
> >> > >> >> > I'm looking at logs now no ERRORs or WARN that seem
> suspicious so
> >> > far
> >> > >> >> >
> >> > >> >> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Matthew Clarke <
> >> > >> >> [email protected]>
> >> > >> >> > wrote:
> >> > >> >> >
> >> > >> >> >> Lars,
> >> > >> >> >>       What version of NiFi are you running?
> >> > >> >> >>       What type of processor was your source processor?
> >> > >> >> >>       What type of processor was the destination processor?
> >> > >> >> >>       I tried reproducing using a GenerateFlowFile to produce
> >> > ~100k
> >> > >> >> >> Flowfiles on a connection to an UpdateAttribute processor. I
> >> then
> >> > >> >> stopped
> >> > >> >> >> the GenerateFlowFile processor , added a funnel, and moved
> the
> >> > >> >> connection.
> >> > >> >> >> I also added another processor feeding that same funnel and
> >> routed
> >> > >> the
> >> > >> >> >> connection from the funnel back to the UpdateAttribute
> >> processor.
> >> > >> The
> >> > >> >> >> files moved as expected through the funnnel.
> >> > >> >> >>
> >> > >> >> >>       Can you reproduce?   Any other errors in your app log
> from
> >> > >> prior
> >> > >> >> to
> >> > >> >> >> completing the connection?
> >> > >> >> >>
> >> > >> >> >> Thanks,
> >> > >> >> >> Matt
> >> > >> >> >>
> >> > >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Lars Francke <
> >> > >> [email protected]>
> >> > >> >> >> wrote:
> >> > >> >> >>
> >> > >> >> >> > Hi,
> >> > >> >> >> >
> >> > >> >> >> > I'm trying to understand what happened and how I can
> prevent
> >> > this
> >> > >> in
> >> > >> >> the
> >> > >> >> >> > future.
> >> > >> >> >> >
> >> > >> >> >> > The outcome seems to be that all my FlowFiles which were
> >> sitting
> >> > >> in a
> >> > >> >> >> > connection have been deleted from disk.
> >> > >> >> >> >
> >> > >> >> >> > I had a flow with two processors connected via a single
> >> > connection.
> >> > >> >> >> >
> >> > >> >> >> > What I did:
> >> > >> >> >> > * Stop all Processors
> >> > >> >> >> > * Add a Funnel
> >> > >> >> >> > * Add a Processor
> >> > >> >> >> > * Move destination end of existing connection to funnel
> (with
> >> > the
> >> > >> >> >> existing
> >> > >> >> >> > FlowFiles)
> >> > >> >> >> > * Connect new Processor to Funnel
> >> > >> >> >> > * Connect Funnel to old destination Processor
> >> > >> >> >> >
> >> > >> >> >> > The connection between the Funnel and the Destination
> >> processor
> >> > >> still
> >> > >> >> >> shows
> >> > >> >> >> > all 90k FlowFiles but the Processor fails on session.read
> >> with a
> >> > >> >> >> > MissingFlowFileException.
> >> > >> >> >> >
> >> > >> >> >> > Sure enough my content_repository is mostly empty too.
> >> > >> >> >> >
> >> > >> >> >> > Now this isn't so bad because it's only a dev environment
> but
> >> > I'd
> >> > >> >> like to
> >> > >> >> >> > understand how this could happen. Did I do something wrong?
> >> > >> >> >> >
> >> > >> >> >> > Any hints on what to search for in the logs or which place
> in
> >> > the
> >> > >> >> source
> >> > >> >> >> > code to look?
> >> > >> >> >> >
> >> > >> >> >> > Cheers,
> >> > >> >> >> > Lars
> >> > >> >> >> >
> >> > >> >> >>
> >> > >> >>
> >> > >>
> >> >
> >>
>

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