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Jesse Yates resolved HBASE-4286. -------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed This is fixed in trunk - closing as fixed. > NPE when master shuts down during processing of server shutdowns > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-4286 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4286 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Todd Lipcon > Labels: noob > > If the master shuts down while trying to process a server crash, it will > escape out of the loop trying to read META, and then the {{hris}} variable is > null. This results in the following NPE: > 2011-08-29 16:05:52,436 INFO > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.handler.ServerShutdownHandler: Reassigning 0 > region(s) that c0317.hal.cloudera.com,60020,1314658642935 was carrying > (skipping 0 regions(s) that are already in transition) > 2011-08-29 16:05:52,436 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hbase.executor.EventHandler: > Caught throwable while processing event M_META_SERVER_SHUTDOWN > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.handler.ServerShutdownHandler.process(ServerShutdownHandler.java:207) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.executor.EventHandler.run(EventHandler.java:156) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira