Bamboo scheduled backup fails - Null value was assigned to a property of primitive type

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Problem

Bamboo scheduled backup fails with the following error in the logs:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 ... 2015-11-29 21:09:04,249 INFO [scheduler_Worker-4] [XmlMigrator] Writing xml to file: /backup/bamboo/backups/bamboo_backup_2015_11_29.zip/db-export/comments.xml 2015-11-29 21:09:04,249 INFO [scheduler_Worker-4] [XmlMigrator] Exporting with: com.atlassian.bamboo.migration.stream.CommentRootMapper 2015-11-29 21:09:05,692 INFO [scheduler_Worker-4] [XmlMigrator] Ensuring the the file has been unmounted 2015-11-29 21:09:05,693 INFO [scheduler_Worker-4] [XmlMigrator] Unmounted /backup/bamboo/backups/bamboo_backup_2015_11_29.zip 2015-11-29 21:09:05,699 INFO [scheduler_Worker-4] [ServerLifecycleManagerImpl] Server state changed to 'RUNNING' from 'PAUSED' 2015-11-29 21:09:05,699 ERROR [scheduler_Worker-4] [ScheduledBackupJob] org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateSystemException: Null value was assigned to a property of primitive type setter of com.atlassian.bamboo.comment.CommentImpl.entityId; nested exception is org.hibernate.PropertyAccessException: Null value was assigned to a property of primitive type setter of com.atlassian.bamboo.comment.CommentImpl.entityId org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateSystemException: Null value was assigned to a property of primitive type setter of com.atlassian.bamboo.comment.CommentImpl.entityId; nested exception is org.hibernate.PropertyAccessException: Null value was assigned to a property of primitive type setter of com.atlassian.bamboo.comment.CommentImpl.entityId at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.SessionFactoryUtils.convertHibernateAccessException(SessionFactoryUtils.java:708) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateAccessor.convertHibernateAccessException(HibernateAccessor.java:414) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate.doExecute(HibernateTemplate.java:416) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate.execute(HibernateTemplate.java:341) at com.atlassian.bamboo.persistence3.BambooHibernateObjectDao.executeReturnLong(BambooHibernateObjectDao.java:139) at com.atlassian.bamboo.comment.CommentHibernateDao.scrollCommentsForExport(CommentHibernateDao.java:115) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:317) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:190) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:157) at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor$1.proceedWithInvocation(TransactionInterceptor.java:98) at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport.invokeWithinTransaction(TransactionAspectSupport.java:262) at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:95) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:179) at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:207) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy28.scrollCommentsForExport(Unknown Source) at com.atlassian.bamboo.migration.stream.CommentRootMapper.exportData(CommentRootMapper.java:50) at com.atlassian.bamboo.migration.XmlMigrator.exportToStream(XmlMigrator.java:571) at com.atlassian.bamboo.migration.XmlMigrator.exportXml(XmlMigrator.java:501) at com.atlassian.bamboo.migration.XmlMigrator$$FastClassBySpringCGLIB$$b6578fc7.invoke(<generated>) at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.MethodProxy.invoke(MethodProxy.java:204) at org.springframework.aop.framework.CglibAopProxy$CglibMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(CglibAopProxy.java:708) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:157) at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor$1.proceedWithInvocation(TransactionInterceptor.java:98) at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport.invokeWithinTransaction(TransactionAspectSupport.java:262) at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:95) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:179) at org.springframework.aop.framework.CglibAopProxy$DynamicAdvisedInterceptor.intercept(CglibAopProxy.java:644) at com.atlassian.bamboo.migration.XmlMigrator$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$97ef45cd.exportXml(<generated>) at com.atlassian.bamboo.migration.ImportExportManagerImpl.bambooExport(ImportExportManagerImpl.java:94) at com.atlassian.bamboo.configuration.ScheduledBackupJob.execute(ScheduledBackupJob.java:75) at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:202) at com.atlassian.bamboo.utils.BambooRunnables$1.run(BambooRunnables.java:49) at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper.runWith(ImpersonationHelper.java:31) at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper.runWithSystemAuthority(ImpersonationHelper.java:20) at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper$1.run(ImpersonationHelper.java:52) at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:525) Caused by: org.hibernate.PropertyAccessException: Null value was assigned to a property of primitive type setter of com.atlassian.bamboo.comment.CommentImpl.entityId at org.hibernate.property.BasicPropertyAccessor$BasicSetter.set(BasicPropertyAccessor.java:109) at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.AbstractEntityTuplizer.setPropertyValues(AbstractEntityTuplizer.java:583) at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer.setPropertyValues(PojoEntityTuplizer.java:229) at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.setPropertyValues(AbstractEntityPersister.java:3848) at org.hibernate.engine.TwoPhaseLoad.initializeEntity(TwoPhaseLoad.java:152) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.initializeEntitiesAndCollections(Loader.java:982) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.loadSingleRow(Loader.java:331) at org.hibernate.impl.ScrollableResultsImpl.prepareCurrentRow(ScrollableResultsImpl.java:254) at org.hibernate.impl.ScrollableResultsImpl.next(ScrollableResultsImpl.java:123) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate.ScrollHibernateCallback.doInHibernate(ScrollHibernateCallback.java:54) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate.ScrollHibernateCallback.doInHibernate(ScrollHibernateCallback.java:14) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate.doExecute(HibernateTemplate.java:411) ... 37 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at org.hibernate.property.BasicPropertyAccessor$BasicSetter.set(BasicPropertyAccessor.java:66) ... 48 more 

Cause

The problem is that we have null values inside the ENTITY_ID column under the USER_COMMENT table, and this column only accepts integer values. It is possible to verify this by running the following SQL query in Bamboo's database:

1 select * from USER_COMMENT where ENTITY_ID is null;

If this query returns any values, then this is probably the issue.

Workaround

Delete the entries returned by the query above.

  1. Stop Bamboo.

  2. Run the following SQL query:

    (!) Always backup your database before applying any changes.

    1 delete from USER_COMMENT where ENTITY_ID is null;
  3. Start Bamboo.

Updated on April 15, 2025

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