Hi, I increased the capacity and the max file size parameters of the filechannel in our config and began seeing the below exception. I continue seeing the below on restarting the channel. I fixed this by removing the files in the checkpoint and data folders.
02 Feb 2013 21:45:51,113 WARN [SinkRunner-PollingRunner-LoadBalancingSinkProcessor] (org.apache.flume.sink.LoadBalancingSinkProcessor.process:158) - Sink failed to consume event. Attempting next sink if available. java.lang.IllegalStateException: Channel closed [channel=ch2]. Due to java.io.EOFException: null at org.apache.flume.channel.file.FileChannel.createTransaction(FileChannel.java:353) at org.apache.flume.channel.BasicChannelSemantics.getTransaction(BasicChannelSemantics.java:122) at org.apache.flume.sink.AvroSink.process(AvroSink.java:277) at org.apache.flume.sink.LoadBalancingSinkProcessor.process(LoadBalancingSinkProcessor.java:154) at org.apache.flume.SinkRunner$PollingRunner.run(SinkRunner.java:147) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Caused by: java.io.EOFException at java.io.RandomAccessFile.readInt(RandomAccessFile.java:759) at java.io.RandomAccessFile.readLong(RandomAccessFile.java:792) at org.apache.flume.channel.file.EventQueueBackingStoreFactory.get(EventQueueBackingStoreFactory.java:71) at org.apache.flume.channel.file.EventQueueBackingStoreFactory.get(EventQueueBackingStoreFactory.java:36) at org.apache.flume.channel.file.Log.replay(Log.java:365) at org.apache.flume.channel.file.FileChannel.start(FileChannel.java:303) at org.apache.flume.lifecycle.LifecycleSupervisor$MonitorRunnable.run(LifecycleSupervisor.java:236) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:439) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:317) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:150) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:98) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodic(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:204) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
