JIRA reports NullPointerException when trying to delete issues

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Problem

When deleting a JIRA issue the User Interface reports "Sorry we had some technical problems during your last request, which includes a NullPointerException message and stack trace. 

 

The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer$3.consume(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:337)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer$3.consume(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:321)
at com.atlassian.jira.util.collect.CollectionUtil.foreach(CollectionUtil.java:44)
at com.atlassian.jira.util.collect.CollectionUtil.foreach(CollectionUtil.java:59)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.IssueObjectIssuesIterable.foreach(IssueObjectIssuesIterable.java:28)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer.perform(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:320)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIssueIndexer.reindexIssues(DefaultIssueIndexer.java:174)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIndexManager.reIndexIssues(DefaultIndexManager.java:602)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIndexManager.reIndexIssueObjects(DefaultIndexManager.java:473)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIndexManager.reIndex(DefaultIndexManager.java:497)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.DefaultIndexManager.reIndex(DefaultIndexManager.java:479)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor712.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at com.atlassian.util.profiling.object.ObjectProfiler.profiledInvoke(ObjectProfiler.java:83)
at com.atlassian.jira.config.component.SwitchingInvocationHandler.invoke(SwitchingInvocationHandler.java:28)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy15.reIndex(Unknown Source)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.DefaultIssueLinkManager.reindexLinkedIssues(DefaultIssueLinkManager.java:142)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.DefaultIssueLinkManager.removeIssueLinkInternal(DefaultIssueLinkManager.java:232)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.DefaultIssueLinkManager.deleteIssueLinksFromIssue(DefaultIssueLinkManager.java:309)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.DefaultIssueLinkManager.removeIssueLinksInternal(DefaultIssueLinkManager.java:286)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.DefaultIssueLinkManager.removeIssueLinksNoChangeItems(DefaultIssueLinkManager.java:272)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueDeleteHelper.removeIssueLinks(DefaultIssueDeleteHelper.java:198)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueDeleteHelper.deleteIssue(DefaultIssueDeleteHelper.java:130)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.deleteIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:930)
at com.atlassian.jira.bc.issue.DefaultIssueService.delete(DefaultIssueService.java:463)
at com.atlassian.jira.bc.issue.DefaultIssueService.delete(DefaultIssueService.java:427)
at com.atlassian.jira.bc.issue.DefaultIssueService.delete(DefaultIssueService.java:421)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.issue.DeleteIssue.doExecute(DeleteIssue.java:27)
at webwork.action.ActionSupport.execute(ActionSupport.java:165)
at com.atlassian.jira.action.JiraActionSupport.execute(JiraActionSupport.java:88)
at webwork.interceptor.DefaultInterceptorChain.proceed(DefaultInterceptorChain.java:39)
at webwork.interceptor.NestedInterceptorChain.proceed(NestedInterceptorChain.java:31)
at webwork.interceptor.ChainedInterceptor.intercept(ChainedInterceptor.java:16)
at webwork.interceptor.DefaultInterceptorChain.proceed(DefaultInterceptorChain.java:35)
at webwork.dispatcher.GenericDispatcher.executeAction(GenericDispatcher.java:225)
at webwork.dispatcher.GenericDispatcher.executeAction(GenericDispatcher.java:154)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.dispatcher.JiraWebworkActionDispatcher.service(JiraWebworkActionDispatcher.java:152)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727)

Diagnosis

Diagnostic Steps

Cause

A database integrity issue has caused this problem. This can be caused by a misconfigured database connection configuration. See Connecting JIRA to a Database for detailed guides on setting up database connections from JIRA.

Resolution

This issue is expected to be resolved by:

  1. Using the Database Integrity Checker
  2. Resolving any reported issues using the tool.
Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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