File appender throws java.lang.NullPointerException - nullpointerexception

Question

I am running kaa 0.10 on ubuntu 14. When I choose File appender, I do not see any log file created. The kaa log at /var/log/kaa has the exception:
2017-02-16 22:10:47,890 [EPS-log-dispatcher-10] TRACE o.k.k.s.c.l.s.a.AbstractLogAppender - Avro header record converter [org.kaaproject.kaa.common.avro.GenericAvroConverter#6ee5ba4b]
2017-02-16 22:10:47,890 [EPS-log-dispatcher-10] DEBUG o.k.k.s.a.f.a.FileSystemLogAppender - [/home/ubuntu/log/null/null] saving 5 objects
2017-02-16 22:10:47,891 [EPS-log-dispatcher-10] ERROR o.k.k.s.a.f.a.FileSystemLogAppender - [DataCollectionFileAppender] Attempted to append logs failed
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at org.kaaproject.kaa.server.appenders.file.appender.LogbackFileSystemLogger.append(LogbackFileSystemLogger.java:92) ~[file-appender-0.10.0.jar:na]
at org.kaaproject.kaa.server.appenders.file.appender.FileSystemLogAppender.doAppend(FileSystemLogAppender.java:63) ~[file-appender-0.10.0.jar:na]
at org.kaaproject.kaa.server.common.log.shared.appender.AbstractLogAppender.doAppend(AbstractLogAppender.java:74) [log-shared-0.10.0.jar:na]
at org.kaaproject.kaa.server.operations.service.akka.actors.core.ApplicationLogActorMessageProcessor.lambda$processLogEventPack$0(ApplicationLogActorMessageProcessor.java:111) [kaa-node-0.10.0.jar:na]
at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1249) ~[na:1.8.0_121]
at org.kaaproject.kaa.server.operations.service.akka.actors.core.ApplicationLogActorMessageProcessor.processLogEventPack(ApplicationLogActorMessageProcessor.java:111) [kaa-node-0.10.0.jar:na]
at org.kaaproject.kaa.server.operations.service.akka.actors.core.ApplicationLogActor.onReceive(ApplicationLogActor.java:59) ~[kaa-node-0.10.0.jar:na]
Here is my File appender configuration:
{"publicKey":"AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEA4Tp8W48b31VDlb9ARbqpsK8dwER3d+OD8gOp7H8kwPBj6IICZILYVsns3ngAHJtJYOEkGCPlOMudF8iWtmdkcEvVo7X/Nrvn//MW7ze36B7rUx0u86jBS4Cg19GxCtKG2LnyEp0Rk+9YvEfI99kFxmRoT3yHrtwWxkQ7fxfLQ4AUuhdBlpeoepYksoNWpy0CNdAEL6vzI3nl+EaQcesdNgUu6LlUzOl7Z3Qo8sOXCfSHvACzMnfVfEMOmO7arHmDcIlegb7stuCUE5YuuKbGofeEAwuARLROwlvHfeMJPhpHOv6+Q/39SZLqu+FfWDdrGEn9+9+UGAlZ2iN6SYYD7w==","logsRootPath":"/home/ubuntu/log","rollingFileNamePatern":"logFile.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log","rollingMaxHistory":30,"triggerMaxFileSize":"1GB","encoderPattern":"%-4relative[%thread]%-5level%logger{35}-%msg%n","minLogSchemaVersion":1,"maxLogSchemaVersion":2147483647,"pluginTypeName":"File","pluginClassName":"org.kaaproject.kaa.server.appenders.file.appender.FileSystemLogAppender","headerStructure":["Timestamp","Logschemaversion"]}
I tried the same configuration in the kaa sandbox which worked fine. But I cannot make it work on my own server.
Please help. Thanks.
James

Answer 1

You got an ERROR o.k.k.s.a.f.a.FileSystemLogAppender - Failed to init file system log appender:..
Looks like the file system log appender was not initialised because log directory "logsRootPath":"/home/ubuntu/log" was not created.
Create "/home/ubuntu/log" directory manually and after that add your File system log appender at Administration UI page.
Update:
Looks like user 'kaa' has not privileged to create 'Logs root path' directory. I have created an issue to improve the File system log appender documentation. See the issue description for details and add line
kaa ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
to the /etc/sudoers file.