Stefania created CASSANDRA-13389:
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             Summary: Possible NPE on upgrade to 3.0/3.X in case of IO errors 
                 Key: CASSANDRA-13389
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13389
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Lifecycle
            Reporter: Stefania
            Assignee: Stefania
             Fix For: 3.0.x, 3.11.x


There is a NPE on upgrade to 3.0/3.X if a data directory contains directories 
that generate IO errors, for example if the cassandra process does not have 
permission to read them.

Here is the exception:

{code}
ERROR [main] 2017-03-06 16:41:30,678  CassandraDaemon.java:710 - Exception 
encountered during startup
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
        at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.delete(FileUtils.java:372) 
~[cassandra-all-3.0.11.1564.jar:3.0.11.1564]
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.db.SystemKeyspace.migrateDataDirs(SystemKeyspace.java:1359)
 ~[cassandra-all-3.0.11.1564.jar:3.0.11.1564]
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:190) 
~[cassandra-all-3.0.11.1564.jar:3.0.11.1564]
{code}

This is caused by {{File.listFiles()}}, which returns null in case of an IO 
error.



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