Fisheye will not start with Unexpected end of file after null
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Problem
The following error is seen on fisheye.out after starting it:
2015-02-04 11:50:42,672 INFO - loading config from file: /opt/crucible/crucible_data/config.xml
2015-02-04 11:50:42,895 ERROR - Problem with config file: org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: error: Unexpected end of file after null
com.cenqua.fisheye.config.ConfigException: org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: error: Unexpected end of file after null
at com.cenqua.fisheye.config.RootConfig.load(RootConfig.java:182)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.ctl.Run.mainImpl(Run.java:132)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.ctl.Run.main(Run.java:78)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.FishEyeCtl.mainImpl(FishEyeCtl.java:99)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.FishEyeCtl.main(FishEyeCtl.java:42)
Caused by: org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: error: Unexpected end of file after null
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale$SaxLoader.load(Locale.java:3471)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:1270)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:1257)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.schema.SchemaTypeLoaderBase.parse(SchemaTypeLoaderBase.java:345)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.config1.ConfigDocument$Factory.parse(ConfigDocument.java:886)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.config.RootConfig.parseDocument(RootConfig.java:209)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.config.RootConfig.parseDocument(RootConfig.java:199)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.config.RootConfig.load(RootConfig.java:172)
... 8 more
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Unexpected end of file after null
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.reportFatalError(Piccolo.java:1038)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.parse(Piccolo.java:723)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale$SaxLoader.load(Locale.java:3439)
... 15 moreCause
The file /opt/crucible/crucible_data/config.xml being loaded by Fisheye as indicated on the logs is empty.
Resolution
In order to solve this, you need to restore a valid backup of your config.xml and restart your Fisheye instance.