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Problem

Searching for specific fields in the issue navigator results in an error message similar to the following:

"Error occurred communicating with the server. Please reload the page and try again."

The following appears in atlassian-jira.log

ERROR      [o.a.c.c.C.[.[localhost].[/].[default]] Servlet.service() for servlet [default] in context with path [] threw exception
org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException: (was java.lang.NullPointerException) (through reference chain: com.atlassian.jira.plugin.issuenav.service.issuetable.IssueTableServiceOutcome["issueTable"]->com.atlassian.jira.plugin.issuenav.service.issuetable.IssueTable["table"]->com.google.common.collect.TransformingRandomAccessList[2])
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException.wrapWithPath(JsonMappingException.java:218)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException.wrapWithPath(JsonMappingException.java:197)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.std.SerializerBase.wrapAndThrow(SerializerBase.java:166)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.std.StdContainerSerializers$IndexedListSerializer.serializeContents(StdContainerSerializers.java:127)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.std.StdContainerSerializers$IndexedListSerializer.serializeContents(StdContainerSerializers.java:71)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.std.AsArraySerializerBase.serialize(AsArraySerializerBase.java:86)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.serializeAsField(BeanPropertyWriter.java:446)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeFields(BeanSerializerBase.java:150)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.BeanSerializer.serialize(BeanSerializer.java:112)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.serializeAsField(BeanPropertyWriter.java:446)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeFields(BeanSerializerBase.java:150)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.BeanSerializer.serialize(BeanSerializer.java:112)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.StdSerializerProvider._serializeValue(StdSerializerProvider.java:610)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.StdSerializerProvider.serializeValue(StdSerializerProvider.java:256)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper.writeValue(ObjectMapper.java:1613)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJsonProvider.writeTo(JacksonJsonProvider.java:559)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerResponse.write(ContainerResponse.java:302)
	... 5 filtered
	at com.atlassian.plugins.rest.module.RestDelegatingServletFilter$JerseyOsgiServletContainer.doFilter(RestDelegatingServletFilter.java:154)
	... 1 filtered
	at com.atlassian.plugins.rest.module.RestDelegatingServletFilter.doFilter(RestDelegatingServletFilter.java:68)
	... 32 filtered
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.ExternalCustomerLockoutFilter.doFilter(ExternalCustomerLockoutFilter.java:56)
	... 13 filtered
	at com.atlassian.web.servlet.plugin.request.RedirectInterceptingFilter.doFilter(RedirectInterceptingFilter.java:21)
	... 57 filtered
	at com.atlassian.jira.security.JiraSecurityFilter.lambda$doFilter$0(JiraSecurityFilter.java:66)
	... 1 filtered
	at com.atlassian.jira.security.JiraSecurityFilter.doFilter(JiraSecurityFilter.java:64)
	... 16 filtered
	at com.atlassian.plugins.rest.module.servlet.RestSeraphFilter.doFilter(RestSeraphFilter.java:37)
	... 19 filtered
	at com.atlassian.jira.servermetrics.CorrelationIdPopulatorFilter.doFilter(CorrelationIdPopulatorFilter.java:30)
	... 5 filtered
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.CustomerContextSettingFilter.lambda$invokeFilterChain$0(CustomerContextSettingFilter.java:181)
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.utils.context.ReentrantThreadLocalBasedCodeContext.rteInvoke(ReentrantThreadLocalBasedCodeContext.java:134)
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.utils.context.ReentrantThreadLocalBasedCodeContext.runOutOfContext(ReentrantThreadLocalBasedCodeContext.java:87)
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.utils.context.CustomerContextServiceImpl.runOutOfCustomerContext(CustomerContextServiceImpl.java:64)
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.CustomerContextSettingFilter.outOfCustomerContext(CustomerContextSettingFilter.java:174)
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.CustomerContextSettingFilter.doFilterImpl(CustomerContextSettingFilter.java:130)
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.CustomerContextSettingFilter.doFilter(CustomerContextSettingFilter.java:121)
	... 4 filtered
	at com.atlassian.jwt.internal.servlet.JwtAuthFilter.doFilter(JwtAuthFilter.java:32)
	... 8 filtered
	at com.atlassian.web.servlet.plugin.request.RedirectInterceptingFilter.doFilter(RedirectInterceptingFilter.java:21)
	... 4 filtered
	at com.atlassian.web.servlet.plugin.LocationCleanerFilter.doFilter(LocationCleanerFilter.java:36)
	... 26 filtered
	at com.atlassian.jira.servermetrics.MetricsCollectorFilter.doFilter(MetricsCollectorFilter.java:25)
	... 23 filtered
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.issuenav.service.issuetable.SplitViewIssueTableCreator$1.apply(SplitViewIssueTableCreator.java:45)
	at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.issuenav.service.issuetable.SplitViewIssueTableCreator$1.apply(SplitViewIssueTableCreator.java:34)
	at com.google.common.collect.Lists$TransformingRandomAccessList.get(Lists.java:608)
	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.std.StdContainerSerializers$IndexedListSerializer.serializeContents(StdContainerSerializers.java:106)
	... 250 more

Cause

Jira's filesystem index is corrupted

Workaround

Perform a re-index, either foreground or background.

Resolution

We believe this is a symptom of the following bug: JRASERVER-61099 - Getting issue details... STATUS


Last modified on Jan 17, 2018

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