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Im looking at the logs in /upc/share/testdata/support/2013-02_NCDC_GHR-456072
In FeatureCollectionScan.log I see:
[2013-01-16T15:55:04.946-0500] DEBUG thredds.inventory.CollectionUpdater:
Update for GFSANL feature collection test trigger = startup.GFSANL feature
collection test
[2013-01-16T15:55:19.093-0500] ERROR thredds.inventory.CollectionUpdater:
UpdateCollectionJob.execute failed
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
thredds.filesystem.ControllerOS$Traversal.<init>(ControllerOS.java:245)
at
thredds.filesystem.ControllerOS$MFileIteratorAll.getNextIterator(ControllerOS.java:218)
at
thredds.filesystem.ControllerOS$MFileIteratorAll.getNextIterator(ControllerOS.java:224)
at
thredds.filesystem.ControllerOS$MFileIteratorAll.getNextIterator(ControllerOS.java:224)
at
thredds.filesystem.ControllerOS$MFileIteratorAll.hasNext(ControllerOS.java:196)
at
thredds.filesystem.ControllerOS$FilteredIterator.nextFilteredFile(ControllerOS.java:137)
at
thredds.filesystem.ControllerOS$FilteredIterator.hasNext(ControllerOS.java:119)
at
thredds.inventory.MFileCollectionManager.reallyScan(MFileCollectionManager.java:517)
at
thredds.inventory.MFileCollectionManager.scanFirstTime(MFileCollectionManager.java:478)
at
thredds.inventory.MFileCollectionManager.scan(MFileCollectionManager.java:361)
at
thredds.inventory.CollectionUpdater$UpdateCollectionJob.execute(CollectionUpdater.java:281)
This might mean we are getting a null from File.listDirs(), for directory
/global/nomads/nexus/gfsanl/
Any chance you are getting hardware problems there? Otherwise, can you send a
recursive listing of that directory?
Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: GHR-456072
Department: Support THREDDS
Priority: High
Status: Open