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I shutdown archiva and restarted it and then I ran the repostiory scan and the NPE's are no longer present. Now, I am only getting the invalid artifact path problem.
2291646 [pool-2-thread-1] ERROR org.apache.maven.archiva.repository.scanner.RepositoryScanner:default - Consumer [repository-purge] had an error when processing file [/disk1/html/maven2-snapshot/com/tvworks/tva/apps/comcast/admincla/3.3.1-SNAPSHOT/admincla-3.3.1-20080115.074922-1.jar]: Invalid path to Artifact: filename format is invalid,expected timestamp format in filename.
org.apache.maven.archiva.consumers.ConsumerException: Invalid path to Artifact: filename format is invalid,expected timestamp format in filename.
at org.apache.maven.archiva.consumers.core.repository.RepositoryPurgeConsumer.processFile(RepositoryPurgeConsumer.java:189)
at org.apache.maven.archiva.repository.scanner.functors.ConsumerProcessFileClosure.execute(ConsumerProcessFileClosure.java:57)
at org.apache.commons.collections.functors.IfClosure.execute(IfClosure.java:117)
at org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils.forAllDo(CollectionUtils.java:388)
at org.apache.maven.archiva.repository.scanner.RepositoryScannerInstance.directoryWalkStep(RepositoryScannerInstance.java:138)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.fireStep(DirectoryWalker.java:173)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:391)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:385)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:385)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:385)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:385)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:385)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:385)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scanDir(DirectoryWalker.java:385)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryWalker.scan(DirectoryWalker.java:344)
at org.apache.maven.archiva.repository.scanner.DefaultRepositoryScanner.scan(DefaultRepositoryScanner.java:120)
at org.apache.maven.archiva.repository.scanner.DefaultRepositoryScanner.scan(DefaultRepositoryScanner.java:64)
at org.apache.maven.archiva.scheduled.executors.ArchivaRepositoryScanningTaskExecutor.executeTask(ArchivaRepositoryScanningTaskExecutor.java:106)
at org.codehaus.plexus.taskqueue.execution.ThreadedTaskQueueExecutor$ExecutorRunnable$1.run(ThreadedTaskQueueExecutor.java:116)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:442)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:176)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:665)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:690)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.archiva.consumers.core.repository.RepositoryPurgeException: Invalid path to Artifact: filename format is invalid,expected timestamp format in filename.
at org.apache.maven.archiva.consumers.core.repository.RetentionCountRepositoryPurge.process(RetentionCountRepositoryPurge.java:102)
at org.apache.maven.archiva.consumers.core.repository.RepositoryPurgeConsumer.processFile(RepositoryPurgeConsumer.java:185)
... 23 more
I just noted the other exceptions you were posting about
"test-sources" artifacts is a different issue (I think it has already
been reported but would need to check).
For the NPE - it appears to be a consumer is null - you might check
the consumer configuration page - or look for empty entries in
archiva.xml.