NullPointerException when opening Bamboo Repository-Stored Specs logs
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Summary
Problem
After Bamboo Repository Stored Specs (RSS) is run, the following appears in atlassian-bamboo.log when clicking on the link to view the Specs log:
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2018-05-08 14:20:42,370 ERROR [http-nio-8085-exec-18] [FiveOhOh] 500 Exception was thrown.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.nio.fs.UnixPath.normalizeAndCheck(UnixPath.java:77)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixPath.<init>(UnixPath.java:71)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystem.getPath(UnixFileSystem.java:281)
at java.nio.file.Paths.get(Paths.java:84)
at com.atlassian.bamboo.configuration.external.RepositoryStoredSpecsLogServiceImpl.getRepositoryLogsFolder(RepositoryStoredSpecsLogServiceImpl.java:169)
at com.atlassian.bamboo.configuration.external.RepositoryStoredSpecsLogServiceImpl.getBambooSpecsExecutionLogFile(RepositoryStoredSpecsLogServiceImpl.java:91)
at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugin.servlet.SpecLogsDownloadStrategy.getFileToServe(SpecLogsDownloadStrategy.java:75)Diagnosis
Diagnostic Steps
Ensure that you are using Bamboo 6.3.x or higher.
Please verify that you are using RSS
Check verify that
bamboo.cfg.xmlis missing the following line:1<property name="bamboo.repository.logs.directory">${bambooHome}/xml-data/repository-specs</property>
Cause
The value of bamboo.repository.logs.directory is used to generate the log location on disk. If the value is missing, there is no default, so it triggers a NullPointerException.
Solution
Resolution
To resolve this issue, we will manually add this value to the configuration file. To do this, please:
Stop Bamboo
Open
<bamboo-home>/bamboo.cfg.xmlfor editingAdd the following before the
</properties>tag:1<property name="bamboo.repository.logs.directory">${bambooHome}/xml-data/repository-specs</property>Start Bamboo
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