Symptoms

The following appears in the fisheye.out:

Exception in thread "IncrementalPinger16" java.lang.StackOverflowError at java.util.AbstractList$Itr.next(AbstractList.java:345)
... 

atlassian-fisheye-<date>.log:

2013-08-15 08:49:26,836 WARN [IncrementalPinger1 ] fisheye IndexingPingRequest-doRequest - Exception during FishEye Incremental Indexing of svnrepo: java.lang.StackOverflowError 

Cause

The JVM parameter Stack Size is not enough to perform the Indexing.

Resolution

Increase the size of the JVM Stack Size, this can be one by setting the $FISHEYE_OPTS Environment Variable (if this Variable is already set, add the following parameter to it):

 export FISHEYE_OPTS=-Xss1024k

 Depending on the JVM that Fisheye/Crucible is using, you have to set a higher value.