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Apache Nifi is not starting up

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Hi all,

I am using Nifi v 1.20. on windows 8 It used work fine. After restarting the system the nifi does not start up. I had check status Its keep getting "Apacha Nifi not running".

Thanks

Below are logs from nifi-bootstrap.log file-

2017-07-05 15:41:57,105 WARN [NiFi Bootstrap Command Listener] org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi Failed to set permissions so that only the owner can read pid file E:\softwares\nifi-1.2.0\bin\..\run\nifi.pid; this may allows others to have access to the key needed to communicate with NiFi. Permissions should be changed so that only the owner can read this file
2017-07-05 15:41:57,142 WARN [NiFi Bootstrap Command Listener] org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi Failed to set permissions so that only the owner can read status file E:\softwares\nifi-1.2.0\bin\..\run\nifi.status; this may allows others to have access to the key needed to communicate with NiFi. Permissions should be changed so that only the owner can read this file
2017-07-05 15:41:57,168 INFO [NiFi Bootstrap Command Listener] org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi Apache NiFi now running and listening for Bootstrap requests on port 50765
2017-07-05 15:43:12,077 ERROR [NiFi logging handler] org.apache.nifi.StdErr Failed to start web server: Unable to start Flow Controller.
2017-07-05 15:43:12,078 ERROR [NiFi logging handler] org.apache.nifi.StdErr Shutting down...
2017-07-05 15:43:14,501 INFO [main] org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi NiFi never started. Will not restart NiFi

Below is the stack trace from nifi-app.log file -

2017-07-05 15:43:12,077 WARN [main] org.apache.nifi.web.server.JettyServer Failed to start web server... shutting down.
org.apache.nifi.web.NiFiCoreException: Unable to start Flow Controller.
at org.apache.nifi.web.contextlistener.ApplicationStartupContextListener.contextInitialized(ApplicationStartupContextListener.java:88)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ContextHandler.java:876)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ServletContextHandler.java:532)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java:839)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.startContext(ServletContextHandler.java:344)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startWebapp(WebAppContext.java:1480)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1442)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:799)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.doStart(ServletContextHandler.java:261)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:540)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:131)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:113)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:113)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:131)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:105)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:113)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.gzip.GzipHandler.doStart(GzipHandler.java:290)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:131)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.start(Server.java:452)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:105)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:113)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:419)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68)
at org.apache.nifi.web.server.JettyServer.start(JettyServer.java:695)
at org.apache.nifi.NiFi.<init>(NiFi.java:160)
at org.apache.nifi.NiFi.main(NiFi.java:267)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Expected to read a Sentinel Byte of '1' but got a value of '0' instead
at org.apache.nifi.repository.schema.SchemaRecordReader.readRecord(SchemaRecordReader.java:65)
at org.apache.nifi.controller.repository.SchemaRepositoryRecordSerde.deserializeRecord(SchemaRepositoryRecordSerde.java:115)
at org.apache.nifi.controller.repository.SchemaRepositoryRecordSerde.deserializeEdit(SchemaRepositoryRecordSerde.java:109)
at org.apache.nifi.controller.repository.SchemaRepositoryRecordSerde.deserializeEdit(SchemaRepositoryRecordSerde.java:46)
at org.wali.MinimalLockingWriteAheadLog$Partition.recoverNextTransaction(MinimalLockingWriteAheadLog.java:1096)
at org.wali.MinimalLockingWriteAheadLog.recoverFromEdits(MinimalLockingWriteAheadLog.java:459)
at org.wali.MinimalLockingWriteAheadLog.recoverRecords(MinimalLockingWriteAheadLog.java:301)
at org.apache.nifi.controller.repository.WriteAheadFlowFileRepository.loadFlowFiles(WriteAheadFlowFileRepository.java:381)
at org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowController.initializeFlow(FlowController.java:712)
at org.apache.nifi.controller.StandardFlowService.initializeController(StandardFlowService.java:953)
at org.apache.nifi.controller.StandardFlowService.load(StandardFlowService.java:534)
at org.apache.nifi.web.contextlistener.ApplicationStartupContextListener.contextInitialized(ApplicationStartupContextListener.java:72)
... 28 common frames omitted
1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

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@Phanindra Kumar Paladi

That error indicates NiFi was not shutdown gracefully and now the flow file repository has become corrupted. You will have to remove the flow file repository and then restart NiFi.

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New Contributor

Hi,

I am facing similar issue on nifi, I have already tried removing files from both flow file repository and content repository . However, the NIFI UI is still nt working.

nifi-bootstrap.log

2018-07-17 18:33:15,580 ERROR [NiFi logging handler] org.apache.nifi.StdErr Failed to start web server: Unable to start Flow Controller.
2018-07-17 18:33:15,580 ERROR [NiFi logging handler] org.apache.nifi.StdErr Shutting down...
2018-07-17 18:33:16,024 INFO [main] o.a.n.b.NotificationServiceManager Successfully loaded the following 0 services: []
2018-07-17 18:33:16,029 INFO [main] org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi Registered no Notification Services for Notification Type NIFI_STARTED
2018-07-17 18:33:16,029 INFO [main] org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi Registered no Notification Services for Notification Type NIFI_STOPPED
2018-07-17 18:33:16,029 INFO [main] org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi Registered no Notification Services for Notification Type NIFI_DIED
2018-07-17 18:33:16,223 INFO [main] org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.Command Apache NiFi is running at PID 58955 but is not responding to ping requests
2018-07-17 18:33:16,937 INFO [main] org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi NiFi never started. Will not restart NiFi

nifi-bootstrap.log

2018-07-17 16:50:45,210 WARN [main] org.apache.nifi.web.server.JettyServer Failed to start web server... shutting down. org.apache.nifi.web.NiFiCoreException: Unable to start Flow Controller. at org.apache.nifi.web.contextlistener.ApplicationStartupContextListener.contextInitialized(ApplicationStartupContextListener.java:97) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ContextHandler.java:876) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ServletContextHandler.java:532) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java:839) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.startContext(ServletContextHandler.java:344) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startWebapp(WebAppContext.java:1480) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1442) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:799) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.doStart(ServletContextHandler.java:261) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:540) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:131) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:113) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:113) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:131) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:105) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:113) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.gzip.GzipHandler.doStart(GzipHandler.java:290) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:131) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.start(Server.java:452) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:105) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:113) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:419) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.apache.nifi.web.server.JettyServer.start(JettyServer.java:708) at org.apache.nifi.NiFi.<init>(NiFi.java:160) at org.apache.nifi.NiFi.main(NiFi.java:268) Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'loginIdentityProvider': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is java.lang.Exception: Unable to load the login identity provider configuration file at: /u/applic/data/hdfs1/tlog/nifi-1.4.0/./conf/login-identity-providers.xml
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.doGetObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:175) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.getObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:103) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getObjectForBeanInstance(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1585) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:254) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:202) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1060) at org.apache.nifi.web.contextlistener.ApplicationStartupContextListener.contextInitialized(ApplicationStartupContextListener.java:93) ... 28 common frames omitted Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Unable to load the login identity provider configuration file at: /u/applic/data/hdfs1/tlog/nifi-1.4.0/./conf/login-identity-providers.xml at org.apache.nifi.web.security.spring.LoginIdentityProviderFactoryBean.loadLoginIdentityProvidersConfiguration(LoginIdentityProviderFactoryBean.java:150) at org.apache.nifi.web.security.spring.LoginIdentityProviderFactoryBean.getObject(LoginIdentityProviderFactoryBean.java:107) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.doGetObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:168) ... 34 common frames omitted 2018-07-17 16:50:45,220 INFO [Thread-1] org.apache.nifi.NiFi Initiating shutdown of Jetty web server... 2018-07-17 16:50:45,240 
INFO [Thread-1] o.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractConnector Stopped ServerConnector@5262e781{HTTP/1.1,[http/1.1]}{0.0.0.0:8080} 2018-07-17 16:50:45,240 
INFO [Thread-1] org.eclipse.jetty.server.session Stopped scavenging