[jboss-as7-dev] NPE in Sun/Oracle JRE, NIO code

[Jaikiran Pai]

Just saw this exception when a Jenkins job was running on lightning for 
a PR (the exception isn't caused by the PR):

03:33:45,211 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-4) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.remoting.endpoint.management: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.remoting.endpoint.management: Failed to start service
	at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1767) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [rt.jar:1.6.0_29]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [rt.jar:1.6.0_29]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [rt.jar:1.6.0_29]
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at sun.nio.ch.Util.atBugLevel(Util.java:448) [rt.jar:1.6.0_29]
	at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.<init>(SelectorImpl.java:40) [rt.jar:1.6.0_29]
	at sun.nio.ch.EPollSelectorImpl.<init>(EPollSelectorImpl.java:47) [rt.jar:1.6.0_29]
	at sun.nio.ch.EPollSelectorProvider.openSelector(EPollSelectorProvider.java:18) [rt.jar:1.6.0_29]
	at java.nio.channels.Selector.open(Selector.java:209) [rt.jar:1.6.0_29]
	at org.xnio.nio.NioXnioWorker.<init>(NioXnioWorker.java:112)
	at org.xnio.nio.NioXnio.createWorker(NioXnio.java:126)
	at org.jboss.remoting3.EndpointImpl.construct(EndpointImpl.java:137)
	at org.jboss.remoting3.Remoting.createEndpoint(Remoting.java:60)
	at org.jboss.remoting3.Remoting.createEndpoint(Remoting.java:73)
	at org.jboss.as.remoting.EndpointService.start(EndpointService.java:71)
	at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
	at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
	... 3 more


Looks like an already reported bug against Sun/Oracle JRE http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6427854

-Jaikiran