Installation

The Java Bridge server is not running

harshavrath
Contributor

Hi till yesterday java bridge was up & running from today its not.

2014-04-15 11:30:28,273 ERROR Java process returned error code 1! Error: Initializing Splunk context... Environment: SplunkEnvironment{SPLUNK_HOME=C:\Program Files\Splunk,SPLUNK_DB=C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\lib\splunk} Configuring Log4j... [Fatal Error] :1:1: Premature end of file. Exception in thread "main" com.splunk.config.SplunkConfigurationException: Error creating PersistentValueStore type xstream: com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.StreamException: : Premature end of file. at com.splunk.persistence.PersistentValueStoreFactory.createStoreInstance(PersistentValueStoreFactory.java:119) at com.splunk.persistence.PersistentValueStoreFactory.createStore(PersistentValueStoreFactory.java:71) at com.splunk.persistence.PersistentValueStoreFactory.createGlobalStore(PersistentValueStoreFactory.java:51) at com.splunk.env.SplunkContext.initialize(SplunkContext.java:108) at com.splunk.bridge.JavaBridgeServer.main(JavaBridgeServer.java:34) Caused by: com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.StreamException: : Premature end of file. at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.DomDriver.createReader(DomDriver.java:105) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.DomDriver.createReader(DomDriver.java:81) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.fromXML(XStream.java:904) at com.splunk.persistence.impl.XStreamStore.loadState(XStreamStore.java:113) at com.splunk.persistence.impl.XStreamStore.<init>(XStreamStore.java:49) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at com.splunk.util.Utils$Reflection.instantiate(Utils.java:880) at com.splunk.persistence.PersistentValueStoreFactory.createStoreInstance(PersistentValueStoreFactory.java:117) ... 4 more Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file. at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:249) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:284) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.DomDriver.createReader(DomDriver.java:98) ... 14 more
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MartinMcNutt
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Most likely this issue:
DBConnect Stopped Functioning

Full details of the issue found in the link. I have ran into this issue several time and this usually fixes it.

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MartinMcNutt
Communicator

Most likely this issue:
DBConnect Stopped Functioning

Full details of the issue found in the link. I have ran into this issue several time and this usually fixes it.

harshavrath
Contributor

its working thanks, the state.xml file under global was corrupted so i just copied the state.xml from my other db-entries.

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harshavrath
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what do you do exactly to resolve the error.?

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