Observed a panic: "invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference" (runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference)

[gnoejuan]

Describe the bug

I'm unfortunately unable to figure out anything beyond the logs.

Observed a panic: "invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference" (runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference)

Error.txt and logs: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AoSeaeVYrPG8jL1mt-k_otuRka37-A?e=9TkESQ

Che version

• [ x ] latest
• nightly
• other: please specify

Steps to reproduce

chectl server:deploy --che-operator-cr-yaml='/media/charlesrod/KINGSTON/kubernetes/k8s/che/che-cluster.yaml' -a operator -p k8s -b che-che.url.com

I've been able to deploy other k8s apps. Any further information I can give, just let me know.

Expected behavior

Runtime

• [ x ] kubernetes (include output of kubectl version)

Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"19", GitVersion:"v1.19.4", GitCommit:"d360454c9bcd1634cf4cc52d1867af5491dc9c5f", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-11-16T17:18:52Z", GoVersion:"go1.15.4", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"18", GitVersion:"v1.18.9+k3s1", GitCommit:"630bebf94b9dce6b8cd3d402644ed023b3af8f90", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-09-17T19:05:07Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.15", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

• Openshift (include output of oc version)
• minikube (include output of minikube version and kubectl version)
• minishift (include output of minishift version and oc version)
• docker-desktop + K8S (include output of docker version and kubectl version)
• [ x ] other: (please specify): k3os

Screenshots

Installation method

• [ x ] chectl
  • provide a full command that was used to deploy Eclipse Che (including the output)
  • provide an output of chectl version command
• OperatorHub
• I don't know

Environment

• my computer
  • Windows
  • [ x ] Linux
  • macOS
• Cloud
  • Amazon
  • Azure
  • GCE
  • [ x ] other (please specify): k3os
• other: please specify

Eclipse Che Logs

Additional context

[tolusha]

Probably that is a location of the error:
https://github.com/eclipse/che-operator/blob/master/pkg/deploy/server/che_configmap.go#L285

@gnoejuan
Do you have che-tls secret created in a namespace ?

[gnoejuan]

Do you have che-tls secret created in a namespace ?

This lead me to the correct solution. There was a problem with the tls secret outside of Che's scope. Thank you!

[tolusha]

I will keep this issue opened for a while since NPE is not good anyway.

[mmorhun]

Fixed