JIRA Indexing Null Pointer Exception

[aris unknown]

Hello,

I get the following exception when running re-index....

Could someone help on how to resolve this issue?

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at java.util.ArrayList.addAll(Unknown Source)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultChangeHistoryRetriever.filterChangeItems(DefaultChangeHistoryRetriever.java:120)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultChangeHistoryRetriever.createChangeGroupsFromChangeItems(DefaultChangeHistoryRetriever.java:61)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultChangeHistoryRetriever.get(DefaultChangeHistoryRetriever.java:54)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultChangeHistoryRetriever.get(DefaultChangeHistoryRetriever.java:30)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer$ChangeHistoryDocumentBuilder.get(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:567)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer$IssueLockDocumentCreationStrategy$2.get(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:597)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer$IssueLockDocumentCreationStrategy$2.get(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:593)
	at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.ManagedLocks$ManagedLockImpl.withLock(ManagedLocks.java:315)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer$IssueLockDocumentCreationStrategy.get(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:592)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer$IndexIssuesOperation.perform(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:446)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer$4$1.get(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:284)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer$4$1.get(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:280)
	at com.atlassian.jira.index.SimpleIndexingStrategy.get(SimpleIndexingStrategy.java:9)
	at com.atlassian.jira.index.SimpleIndexingStrategy.get(SimpleIndexingStrategy.java:5)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer$4.consume(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:279)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer$4.consume(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:272)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DatabaseIssuesIterable.foreach(DatabaseIssuesIterable.java:66)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer.perform(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:271)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer.indexIssues(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:121)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer.indexIssuesBatchMode(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:132)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIndexManager.doIndexIssuesInBatchMode(DefaultIndexManager.java:857)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIndexManager.doStopTheWorldReindex(DefaultIndexManager.java:827)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIndexManager.reIndexAll(DefaultIndexManager.java:337)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIndexManager.reIndexAll(DefaultIndexManager.java:303)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at com.atlassian.util.profiling.object.ObjectProfiler.profiledInvoke(ObjectProfiler.java:81)
	at com.atlassian.jira.config.component.SwitchingInvocationHandler.invoke(SwitchingInvocationHandler.java:28)
	at $Proxy161.reIndexAll(Unknown Source)
	at com.atlassian.jira.util.index.CompositeIndexLifecycleManager.reIndexAll(CompositeIndexLifecycleManager.java:54)
	at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.admin.index.ReIndexAsyncIndexerCommand.doReindex(ReIndexAsyncIndexerCommand.java:28)
	at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.admin.index.AbstractAsyncIndexerCommand.call(AbstractAsyncIndexerCommand.java:54)
	at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.admin.index.ReIndexAsyncIndexerCommand.call(ReIndexAsyncIndexerCommand.java:16)
	at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.admin.index.AbstractAsyncIndexerCommand.call(AbstractAsyncIndexerCommand.java:23)
	at com.atlassian.jira.task.TaskManagerImpl$TaskCallableDecorator.call(TaskManagerImpl.java:366)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
	at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.DefaultMultiTenantManager.runForTenant(DefaultMultiTenantManager.java:61)
	at com.atlassian.multitenant.juc.MultiTenantExecutors$WrappedRunnable.run(MultiTenantExecutors.java:160)
	at com.atlassian.jira.task.ForkedThreadExecutor$ForkedRunnableDecorator.run(ForkedThreadExecutor.java:249)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[aris unknown]

Issue solved. We just deleted the null values from db.. Thx

[Peter Van de Voorde]

Hi Aris,

Did you try cleaning the cache and work folder as explained here : https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/151453/jira-4-4-5-jira-startup-failed-plugins-did-not-start ?

that might help.

Best regards,

Peter