[THREDDS #GHR-456072]: nullPointerException in when accessing 4.3.15 GRIB featureCollection's

> Morning John,
> 
> #1:  i have In my tomcat startup script:
> 
> export JAVA_OPTS=" -Djava.awt.headless=true $JAVA_OPTS"
> export CATALINA_OPTS="-server -Xms8192m -Xmx32768m
> -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.awt.headless=true"
> 
> Unsure what the difference between JAVA_OPTS v CATALINA_OPTS is in
> regards to the TDS web app.
> In any event, The PermGen failure did not occur in latest startup.

ok


> 
> Appears you've been analysing an old version of our threddsConfig.xml, sorry.
> And given timestamp 2013-01-16T~~~ {January}. in #1, likely some old
> logs as well.
> As all refs. to tomcat-main.4.3.14 and the like have since been updated.
> This also anulls #6, as they were already corrected as-per Ethans suggestion.
> I will be rerunning and will put both catalog.xml and
> threddsConfig.xml in the with the logs.
> 
> #5 #7: thanks.  changes incorperated in latest trial.
> 
> #4 #8: Will await any news.
> 
> #3: strange.  None of the directories under
> "/global/nomads/nexus/gfsanl/201001-test
> are empty (null?)   However "/global/nomads/nexus/gfsanl/" is a valid 
> sym.link.
> Perhaps it might not be following it? ~ Then it wouldn't be able to
> create grib index
> at all, so that ones got me stumped.
> 
> 
> Please pick up the latest trial at:
> http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/data/gfsanl/201001-test/tds-logs-0312.tar.bz2
> 
> The core issue(s) still remains.
> 
> -Dan


ok, 

1) please get new war file at:

ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/thredds/4.3/4.3.16/thredds.war


2) delete all ncx files for this test - we want to make sure they are recreated 
clean. gbx9 files are ok.

3) one error i see in you catalog:

    <collection
        
spec="/global/nomads/nexus/namanl/201006/**/namanl_218_#yyyyMMdd_HHmm#_000\.grb$"
        timePartition="1 day"
        dateFormatMark="#nam_218_#yyyyMMdd_HHmm"
        />

should be (i think):

        dateFormatMark="#namanl_218_#yyyyMMdd_HHmm"

4) also no dateFormatMark in

    <collection 
spec="/raid/nomads/testing/data/merged_AWIP32-sample/**/narr-a_221_.*\.grb$"/>

5) you might want to commect out these last two, get first colelction working, 
then add back in.

6) you have some debug logging that we will want to turn off for production, 
but leave it going for now.

i think we might have things fixed, meaning be on to some new problems!

John



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: GHR-456072
Department: Support THREDDS
Priority: Critical
Status: Open