Sonarqube scanner failing java.lang.NullPointerException

I am running my sonar scan on teamcity agent. My sonarqube version is Enterprise EditionVersion 7.9.1 (build 27448)LGPL v3Community .I have added a build step for sonar scan

/ciBin/sonar-scanner-3.0.3.778-linux/bin/sonar-scanner -X -Dsonar.branch.name="%teamcity.build.branch%" -Dsonar.language=cpp

It is failing with below error:

16:29:59.287 INFO: EXECUTION FAILURE
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  16:29:59.287 INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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  16:29:59.288 INFO: Total time: 4:07.286s
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  16:29:59.647 INFO: Final Memory: 45M/2591M
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  16:29:59.647 INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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  16:29:59.647 ERROR: Error during SonarQube Scanner execution
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  java.lang.NullPointerException
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    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.ClangDriver.envListToMap(ClangDriver.java:500)
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    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.ClangDriver.lambda$probeCompiler$7(ClangDriver.java:491)
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    at java.util.HashMap.computeIfAbsent(HashMap.java:1126)
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    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.ClangDriver.probeCompiler(ClangDriver.java:489)
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    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.ClangDriver.onCapture(ClangDriver.java:318)
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  16:29:59.658 DEBUG: Execution getVersion
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    at com.sonar.cpp.plugin.CFamilySensor.process(CFamilySensor.java:273)
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  16:29:59.659 DEBUG: Execution stop
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    at com.sonar.cpp.plugin.CFamilySensor.execute(CFamilySensor.java:205)
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    at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.AbstractSensorWrapper.analyse(AbstractSensorWrapper.java:48)
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    at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.ModuleSensorsExecutor.execute(ModuleSensorsExecutor.java:85)
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    at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.ModuleSensorsExecutor.execute(ModuleSensorsExecutor.java:62)
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    at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ModuleScanContainer.doAfterStart(ModuleScanContainer.java:82)
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    at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
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    at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
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    at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scan(ProjectScanContainer.java:400)
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    at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scanRecursively(ProjectScanContainer.java:395)
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    at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.doAfterStart(ProjectScanContainer.java:358)
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    at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
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    at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
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    at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.GlobalContainer.doAfterStart(GlobalContainer.java:141)
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    at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
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    at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
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    at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.doExecute(Batch.java:73)
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    at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.executeTask(Batch.java:99)
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    at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.internal.batch.BatchIsolatedLauncher.execute(BatchIsolatedLauncher.java:63)
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    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
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    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
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    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
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    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
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    at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.internal.IsolatedLauncherProxy.invoke(IsolatedLauncherProxy.java:60)
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    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy0.execute(Unknown Source)
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    at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.EmbeddedScanner.doExecute(EmbeddedScanner.java:233)
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    at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.EmbeddedScanner.runAnalysis(EmbeddedScanner.java:151)
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    at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.runAnalysis(Main.java:123)
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    at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.execute(Main.java:77)
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    at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.main(Main.java:61)
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  Process exited with code 1
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  Process exited with code 1 (Step: Sonar scan (Core services) (Command Line))
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  Step Sonar scan (Core services) (Command Line) failed

My user is having a project admin permissions as well. Any help is appreciated, and if there is more info needed I will try to provide it.

Hi @priyal ,

you are using a very old version of SonarQube and build-wrapper, please update to a more recent version, many issues have been fixed since then.

What version of Build wrapper I use?
As mention in sonarqube documentation : * Download Build Wrapper for Linux from {SonarQube URL}/static/cpp/build-wrapper-linux-x86.zip
Version is not specified?

See Facing NPE ClangDriver.envListToMap - #12 by willb

Hi @priyal ,

if you just execute the build-wrapper without any parameter it is going to print its version.

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