DBConnect Java Error After Starting Splunk

[kbecker]

Has anybody see this error in the jbridge log after starting start? The process is in a loop and just keeps restarting. This node is part of search pool and is the only node in which DBconnect isn't working. I have already re-installed java and removed any entries related to this host in distributed.conf

2014-09-12 19:27:22,334 ERROR Java process returned error code 1! Error: Initializing Splunk context... Environment: SplunkEnvironment{SPLUNK_HOME=/home/splunk/splunk,SPLUNK_DB=/home/splunk/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.(XStreamStore.java:49) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) 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; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Premature end of file. at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:257) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:347) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.DomDriver.createReader(DomDriver.java:98) ... 14 more
2014-09-12 19:27:22,334 ERROR Command output: None

[kbecker]

A Google search found this hit on Splunk answers that worked...

http://answers.splunk.com/answers/120422/dbconnect-stopped-functioning

Basically deleting the state.xml file and restarting resolved the issue.