[jira] Closed: (NUTCH-258) Once Nutch logs a SEVERE log item, Nutch fails forevermore

["Chris A. Mattmann (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-258?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Chris A. Mattmann closed NUTCH-258.
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Bug not reproducable in current system, and no active users experiencing bug.

> Once Nutch logs a SEVERE log item, Nutch fails forevermore
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NUTCH-258
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-258
>             Project: Nutch
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: fetcher
>    Affects Versions: 0.8
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: Scott Ganyo
>         Assigned To: Chris A. Mattmann
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 0.9.0
>
>         Attachments: dumbfix.patch, NUTCH-258.Mattmann.060906.patch.txt, NUTCH-258.Mattmann.080406.patch.txt
>
>
> Once a SEVERE log item is written, Nutch shuts down any fetching forevermore.  This is from the run() method in Fetcher.java:
>     public void run() {
>       synchronized (Fetcher.this) {activeThreads++;} // count threads
>       
>       try {
>         UTF8 key = new UTF8();
>         CrawlDatum datum = new CrawlDatum();
>         
>         while (true) {
>           if (LogFormatter.hasLoggedSevere())     // something bad happened
>             break;                                // exit
>           
> Notice the last 2 lines.  This will prevent Nutch from ever Fetching again once this is hit as LogFormatter is storing this data as a static.
> (Also note that "LogFormatter.hasLoggedSevere()" is also checked in org.apache.nutch.net.URLFilterChecker and will disable this class as well.)
> This must be fixed or Nutch cannot be run as any kind of long-running service.  Furthermore, I believe it is a poor decision to rely on a logging event to determine the state of the application - this could have any number of side-effects that would be extremely difficult to track down.  (As it has already for me.)

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