I am trying to setup Graylog 4.0 RC1 and it will simply not start I turned on debug logging and see a lot of message like the following for the plugins:
2020-11-11T07:24:51.225-05:00 DEBUG [Version] Git commit details are not available, skipping.
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at sun.misc.MetaIndex.mayContain(MetaIndex.java:242) ~[?:1.8.0_262]
at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getResource(URLClassPath.java:1044) ~[?:1.8.0_262]
at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getResource(URLClassPath.java:249) ~[?:1.8.0_262]
at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getResource(URLClassPath.java:302) ~[?:1.8.0_262]
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getBootstrapResource(ClassLoader.java:1257) ~[?:1.8.0_262]
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResource(ClassLoader.java:1086) ~[?:1.8.0_262]
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResource(ClassLoader.java:1084) ~[?:1.8.0_262]
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResource(ClassLoader.java:1084) ~[?:1.8.0_262]
at org.graylog2.plugin.Version.getResource(Version.java:247) ~[graylog.jar:?]
at org.graylog2.plugin.Version.fromClasspathProperties(Version.java:228) [graylog.jar:?]
at org.graylog2.plugin.Version.fromPluginProperties(Version.java:163) [graylog.jar:?]
at org.graylog.plugins.quickvaluesplus.QuickValuesPlusWidgetMetaData.getVersion(QuickValuesPlusWidgetMetaData.java:39) [graylog-plugin-quickvaluesplus-widget-4.0.0-beta.1.jar:?]
It just keeps looping through trying to setup plugins looks like it never starts.
I have tried to drop my MongoDB database completely I am following the install documents I not sure what could be causing this issue. Any help would be appreciated on this issue.
I got further on this I decided to clear out the plugins in /usr/loca/graylog/plugins than uninstall and reinstall to ensure I had the latest JARs for the plugins. This got me further in the startup process.
Now I am having issues with ElasticSearch allowing external connection to it.
Yes I am using MongoDB 4.0 I got it working finally but it took me hours to get it working.
It appears that possibly when you apply a new version it does not update the plugins folder with updated JARs. I ended up removing all the JARs from this folder uninstalling and reinstalling.
Than I had other issues but those where firewall related with ElasticSearch being unable to talk to the GrayLog frontends.
we had found yesterday some problems with the RPM packages updates. Those got corrected with the latest version and the final release will work flawless.