Thanks for all the suggestions. As far as JAVA is concerned,I'm worried to see different things.I'm afraid if things are going wrong with the settings.
r...@zoombox:/etc# echo $JAVA_HOME /usr/lib/jvm/default-java r...@zoombox:/etc# java -version java version "1.6.0_0" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_0-b11) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0_0-b11, mixed mode) r...@zoombox:/etc# locate javac |grep bin /usr/bin/javac /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.3-1.5.0.0/bin/javac /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20/bin/javac I've many sub-directories in JVM directory default-java java-6-sun-1.6.0.20 java-6-sun java-6-openjdk java-1.5.0-gcj-4.3-1.5.0.0 java-gcj and the /etc/profile looks like /etc# more profile # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1)) # and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...). if [ -d /etc/profile.d ]; then for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do if [ -r $i ]; then . $i fi done unset i fi if [ "$PS1" ]; then if [ "$BASH" ]; then PS1='\...@\h:\w\$ ' if [ -f /etc/bash.bashrc ]; then . /etc/bash.bashrc fi else if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then PS1='# ' else PS1='$ ' fi fi fi umask 022 export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20" export PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH" Please let me know what went wrong. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Null-Pointer-Exception-while-indexing-tp1481154p1488279.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.