Hi Frds, I am facing an issue with log4j. Initially we had java processes running in a physical server(Linux useclpcll068apa.nbcuni.ge.com 2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 23:35:44 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux , Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 3)) with java version 1.4 for around two years and log file rotation was happening fine. Now recently we have moved the process to a VM (2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 #1 SMP Wed May 7 08:42:34 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux , Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga)) with java version 1.5. But now currently when the file reaches the maximum size, then it is not able to rotate the log file. The issue is apvs.log is getting renamed as apvs.log.1 but I am getting the below errors and the new file apvs.log is not getting created. I could not get solution for this in web. When i reduced the size to 1 KB also, i am facing the same issue and it is not consistent and no patter also. Can someone pls help me on this. Property file entry ================== #Defining the Application Specific Loggers(APVS) and defining their File Appenders log4j.logger.com.ge.nbc.program=debug,apvs log4j.logger.com.ge.nbc.media=debug,apvs log4j.appender.apvs=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender log4j.appender.apvs.Threshold=DEBUG log4j.appender.apvs.File=/nbcpbat01/appl_data/apv/logs/encoderMgr/138/apvs.log log4j.appender.apvs.MaxFileSize=20MB log4j.appender.apvs.MaxBackupIndex=5 log4j.appender.apvs.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.apvs.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yy/MM/dd;HH:mm:ss;SSS;} %-5p %C{3};:(%F:%M():%L) - %m%n Error that i received in javaerr.log ==================================== log4j:ERROR Could not close org.apache.log4j.helpers.CountingQuietWriter@13c296b java.io.IOException: Input/output error at java.io.FileOutputStream.close0(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.close(FileOutputStream.java:279) at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder$CharsetSE.implClose(StreamEncoder.java:431) at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.close(StreamEncoder.java:160) at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.close(OutputStreamWriter.java:222) at java.io.FilterWriter.close(FilterWriter.java:92) at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.closeFile(FileAppender.java:171) at org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender.rollOver(RollingFileAppender.java:135) at org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender.subAppend(RollingFileAppender.java:228) at org.apache.log4j.WriterAppender.append(WriterAppender.java:150) at org.apache.log4j.AppenderSkeleton.doAppend(AppenderSkeleton.java:221) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.AppenderAttachableImpl.appendLoopOnAppenders(AppenderAttachableImpl.java:57) at org.apache.log4j.Category.callAppenders(Category.java:187) at org.apache.log4j.Category.forcedLog(Category.java:372) at org.apache.log4j.Category.debug(Category.java:241) at com.ge.nbc.media.adapter.encoder.helper.MediaEncoderAdapterHelper.findEncoderStatus(Unknown Source) at com.ge.nbc.media.bus.recording.helper.MediaRecordingHelper.processMediaEncoding(MediaRecordingHelper.java:7145) at com.ge.nbc.media.bus.recording.helper.MediaRecordingHelper.processMediaRecording(MediaRecordingHelper.java:1892) at com.ge.nbc.media.bus.recording.bd.MediaRecordingBD.processMediaRecording(MediaRecordingBD.java:338) at com.ge.nbc.program.bus.recording.helper.ProgramRecordingHelper.processProgramRecording(ProgramRecordingHelper.java:624) at com.ge.nbc.program.bus.recording.bd.ProgramRecordingBD.processProgramRecording(ProgramRecordingBD.java:370) at com.ge.nbc.program.app.recording.handler.ProgramRecordingHandler.onMessage(ProgramRecordingHandler.java:2933) at com.tibco.tibjms.TibjmsSession._submit(TibjmsSession.java:2775) at com.tibco.tibjms.TibjmsSession._dispatchAsyncMessage(TibjmsSession.java:1413) at com.tibco.tibjms.TibjmsSession$Dispatcher.run(TibjmsSession.java:2491) **Exception in MessageListener**: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Current state = FLUSHED, new state = CODING at java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder.throwIllegalStateException(CharsetEncoder.java:941) at java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder.encode(CharsetEncoder.java:537) at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder$CharsetSE.implWrite(StreamEncoder.java:384) at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.write(StreamEncoder.java:136) at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.write(StreamEncoder.java:146) at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.write(OutputStreamWriter.java:204) at java.io.Writer.write(Writer.java:126) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.CountingQuietWriter.write(CountingQuietWriter.java:36) at org.apache.log4j.WriterAppender.subAppend(WriterAppender.java:292) at org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender.subAppend(RollingFileAppender.java:225) at org.apache.log4j.WriterAppender.append(WriterAppender.java:150) at org.apache.log4j.AppenderSkeleton.doAppend(AppenderSkeleton.java:221) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.AppenderAttachableImpl.appendLoopOnAppenders(AppenderAttachableImpl.java:57) at org.apache.log4j.Category.callAppenders(Category.java:187) at org.apache.log4j.Category.forcedLog(Category.java:372) at org.apache.log4j.Category.error(Category.java:303) at com.ge.nbc.program.app.recording.handler.ProgramRecordingHandler.onMessage(ProgramRecordingHandler.java:2958) at com.tibco.tibjms.TibjmsSession._submit(TibjmsSession.java:2775) at com.tibco.tibjms.TibjmsSession._dispatchAsyncMessage(TibjmsSession.java:1413) at com.tibco.tibjms.TibjmsSession$Dispatcher.run(TibjmsSession.java:2491) **Exception in MessageListener**: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Current state = FLUSHED, new state = CODING Thanks, Jayasree
*** Bug 48142 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Possibly due to bugs in Sun's Java VM, http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6712096 http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=5005426 Looks like they were fixed in JDK 1.6.