# After upgrading to 7.3.0 search queries return null\_pointer\_exception

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-upgrading-to-7-3-0-search-queries-return-null-pointer-exception/193629>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 3, 2019, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-upgrading-to-7-3-0-search-queries-return-null-pointer-exception/193629 "2019-08-03T10:44:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![nkoothrappahli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nkoothrappahli/32/31959_2.png) [@nkoothrappahli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nkoothrappahli)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-upgrading-to-7-3-0-search-queries-return-null-pointer-exception/193629/1 "2019-08-03T10:44:33Z")

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Search queries (which worked before upgrading) now return

```
{
   "took":16,
   "timed_out":false,
   "_shards":{
      "total":5,
      "successful":4,
      "skipped":0,
      "failed":1,
      "failures":[
         {
            "shard":4,
            "index":"REDACTED",
            "node":"REDACTED",
            "reason":{
               "type":"null_pointer_exception",
               "reason":null
            }
         }
      ]
   },
   "hits":{
      "total":{
         "value":0,
         "relation":"eq"
      },
      "max_score":null,
      "hits":[

      ]
   }
}

```

Sometimes it works but mostly they are failing.

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-upgrading-to-7-3-0-search-queries-return-null-pointer-exception/193629/2 "2019-08-05T10:08:03Z")

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can you provide the full stack by enabled [stack traces](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.2/common-options.html#common-options-error-options) and also provide the full search operation if possible?

Is this reproducible with a new index/data as well?

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**Author:** ![nkoothrappahli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nkoothrappahli/32/31959_2.png) [@nkoothrappahli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nkoothrappahli)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-upgrading-to-7-3-0-search-queries-return-null-pointer-exception/193629/3 "2019-08-10T17:53:00Z")

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This is always reproducible, also with a new index/data

```
  at org.apache.lucene.search.TopScoreDocCollector$SimpleTopScoreDocCollector$1.collect(TopScoreDocCollector.java:68)
  at org.elasticsearch.search.internal.ContextIndexSearcher.intersectScorerAndBitSet(ContextIndexSearcher.java:245)
  at org.elasticsearch.search.internal.ContextIndexSearcher.searchInternal(ContextIndexSearcher.java:209)
  at org.elasticsearch.search.internal.ContextIndexSearcher.search(ContextIndexSearcher.java:179)
  at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:443)
  at org.elasticsearch.search.query.QueryPhase.execute(QueryPhase.java:270)
  at org.elasticsearch.search.query.QueryPhase.execute(QueryPhase.java:113)
  at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.loadOrExecuteQueryPhase(SearchService.java:335)
  at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.executeQueryPhase(SearchService.java:360)
  at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.lambda$executeQueryPhase$1(SearchService.java:340)
  at org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener.lambda$map$2(ActionListener.java:145)
  at org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener$1.onResponse(ActionListener.java:62)
  at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService$2.doRun(SearchService.java:1052)
  at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37)
  at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.TimedRunnable.doRun(TimedRunnable.java:44)
  at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingAbstractRunnable.doRun(ThreadContext.java:758)
  at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
```

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-upgrading-to-7-3-0-search-queries-return-null-pointer-exception/193629/4 "2019-08-12T07:56:30Z")

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please provide the full stack and all the commands you typed in to trigger this behaviour so it can be reproduced locally.

Thank you!

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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:** [September 9, 2019, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-upgrading-to-7-3-0-search-queries-return-null-pointer-exception/193629/5 "2019-09-09T08:03:31Z")

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