# \[5.3.1\] null\_pointer\_exception

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-3-1-null-pointer-exception/83595>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 25, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-3-1-null-pointer-exception/83595 "2017-04-25T16:32:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![VincentBiret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/54ee81/32.png) [@VincentBiret](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/VincentBiret)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-3-1-null-pointer-exception/83595/1 "2017-04-25T16:32:40Z")

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Hello folks,

Weird issue, posting here before raising a ticket, fresh install 5.3.1 (1 master, 3 data, 1 client)

@dadoonet you might have an idea !

Creating empty index w/ template, delete, recreate gave the following error :

```
"reason":"Mapping definition for [suggester_name] has unsupported parameters: [payloads : true]"}]

```

On master node : if running `_cat/indices` || `_cat/shards` which should result in an empty result it returns in the logs :

```
java.lang.NullPointerException: null

```

I saw that that issue has been encountered in 2.4 but it seems to be back,  
Restarting Elasticsearch on all nodes didn't change anything. I will try to purge all DATA\_DIR and give it a try.

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![VincentBiret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/54ee81/32.png) [@VincentBiret](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/VincentBiret)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-3-1-null-pointer-exception/83595/2 "2017-04-25T16:51:48Z")

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Cleaning all DATA\_DIR on the master and data nodes **solved** the issue.

Will raise a ticket if necessary and if it is a not duplicate of 2.4 issue

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-3-1-null-pointer-exception/83595/3 "2017-05-23T17:01:32Z")

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