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  1. ActiveMQ Classic
  2. AMQ-1376

Improperly closed connections preventing message redelivery

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • 5.0.0
    • AGING_TO_DIE
    • Transport
    • None

    Description

      This is a reproducible case of a DEAD Consumer that never gets cleaned up.

      I am using telnet to manually test STOMP message consumption.

      First I put a message into the queue

      I then connect and subscribe to that queue and get the message:

      CONNECT
      login: test
      passcode: test

      ^@
      CONNECTED
      session:ID:jacob-64807-1188509209664-4:3

      SUBSCRIBE
      destination: /queue/Prescriptions
      ack: client

      ^@

      This works and I receive the queued messages.
      They remain in the Q because I am not send ACK

      If I use the DISCONNECT command. I am properly disconnected and I can repeat this process to get the same message again. Good.

      If I disconnect by killing the telnet process I see the following stack trace in MQ. AND I can still repeat the same process of re-retrieving the un-acknowledged messages:
      DEBUG Transport - Transport failed: java.io.EOFException
      java.io.EOFException
      at java.io.DataInputStream.readByte(DataInputStream.java:243)
      at org.apache.activemq.transport.stomp.StompWireFormat.readLine(StompWireFormat.java:186)
      at org.apache.activemq.transport.stomp.StompWireFormat.unmarshal(StompWireFormat.java:94)
      at org.apache.activemq.transport.tcp.TcpTransport.readCommand(TcpTransport.java:196)
      at org.apache.activemq.transport.tcp.TcpTransport.doRun(TcpTransport.java:188)
      at org.apache.activemq.transport.tcp.TcpTransport.run(TcpTransport.java:176)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
      DEBUG TransportConnection - Stopping connection: /XXXXXXXXXXXXXX:4880
      DEBUG TcpTransport - Stopping transport tcp:///XXXXXXXXXXXXXX:4880
      DEBUG TransportConnection - Stopped connection: /XXXXXXXXXXXXXX:4880
      DEBUG TransportConnection - Cleaning up connection resources: /XXXXXXXXXXXXXX:4880
      DEBUG AMQPersistenceAdapter - Checkpoint started.
      DEBUG AMQPersistenceAdapter - Checkpoint done.

      HOWEVER,
      If I disconnect by repeatedly typing Control-C to close the telnet program I see the following stack trace:
      DEBUG Transport - Transport failed: org.apache.activemq.transport.stomp.ProtocolException: Unable to parser header line [????????????]
      org.apache.activemq.transport.stomp.ProtocolException: Unable to parser header line [????????????]
      at org.apache.activemq.transport.stomp.StompWireFormat.unmarshal(StompWireFormat.java:121)
      at org.apache.activemq.transport.tcp.TcpTransport.readCommand(TcpTransport.java:196)
      at org.apache.activemq.transport.tcp.TcpTransport.doRun(TcpTransport.java:188)
      at org.apache.activemq.transport.tcp.TcpTransport.run(TcpTransport.java:176)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
      DEBUG TransportConnection - Stopping connection: /XXXXXXXXXXXXXX:64820
      DEBUG TcpTransport - Stopping transport tcp:///XXXXXXXXXXXXXX:64820
      DEBUG AMQPersistenceAdapter - Checkpoint started.
      DEBUG AMQPersistenceAdapter - Checkpoint done.

      AND, I am no longer able to retrieve the queued up messages. Looking at the admin console I see Number Of Consumers = 1, leading me to believe that ActiveMQ didn't properly handle the disconnection. In the other 2 cases (DISCONNECT and kill) the "Number Of Consumers" drops to zero on connection termination.

      I believe the correct behavior should be to properly handle and clean-up the connection on bad data. Or perhaps periodically check each of the supposed "Consumers" to make sure that they are still alive. This is clearly a reproducible case of a DEAD Consumer that never gets cleaned up.

      Comparing the DEBUG output the follows the 2 stack traces, it is clear in the second case that ActiveMQ fails to clean up the connections resources for the unexpectedly disconnected consumer.

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            chirino Hiram R. Chirino
            igotimac Jacob Burkhart
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