# Invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/invalid-memory-address-or-nil-pointer-dereference/14381>\
**Category:** Percona Distribution for MongoDB\
**Created:** [February 14, 2022, 5:12am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/invalid-memory-address-or-nil-pointer-dereference/14381 "2022-02-14T05:12:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![A\_Niu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/a_niu/32/5518_2.png) [@A\_Niu](https://forums.percona.com/u/A_Niu)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 5:12am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/invalid-memory-address-or-nil-pointer-dereference/14381/1 "2022-02-14T05:12:15Z")

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Hello there,

I created an unmanaged MongoDB cluster, but the pod keep restarting. And the reason is as below, could you please shed some lights on it?

```auto
$ k get events
LAST SEEN TYPE REASON OBJECT MESSAGE
90s Warning Unhealthy pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 (combined from similar events): Liveness probe failed: {"level":"info","msg":"Running Kubernetes liveness check for mongod","time":"2022-02-14T03:07:34Z"}
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x870327]

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
            /go/src/github.com/percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator/cmd/mongodb-healthcheck/main.go:123 +0xca7

```

Thanks  
Arthur

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**Author:** ![Ege\_Gunes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/ege_gunes/32/4595_2.png) [@Ege\_Gunes](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ege_Gunes)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 6:28am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/invalid-memory-address-or-nil-pointer-dereference/14381/2 "2022-02-14T06:28:20Z")

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Hi @A_Niu,

Could you please share your cr.yaml and the operator logs? I’ll try to reproduce the issue.

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**Author:** ![A\_Niu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/a_niu/32/5518_2.png) [@A\_Niu](https://forums.percona.com/u/A_Niu)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/invalid-memory-address-or-nil-pointer-dereference/14381/3 "2022-02-14T13:58:52Z")

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Thanks, Egegunes  
Our system doesn’t allow to upload the helm chart. I pasted it within this post.  
The chart was downloaded from [GitHub - percona/percona-helm-charts: Collection of Helm charts for Percona Kubernetes Operators.](https://github.com/percona/percona-helm-charts.git)  
Here is the values overrided.

```auto
  cluster_chart_values_override = {
    "allowUnsafeConfigurations" = true # When replicasets size is less than 3, allowUnsafeConfigurations must be true
    "image.tag" = "3.6.23-13.0"
    "imagePullPolicy" = "Always"
    "nameOverride" = "soby-2"
    "replsets[0].name" = "rs"
    "replsets[0].size" = 1    
    "sharding.enabled" = false
    # "unmanaged" = false
    "unmanaged" = true
    "upgradeOptions.apply" = "Disabled"
  }
    unmanaged_cluster_override = {
        "replsets[0].expose.enabled" = true
        "replsets[0].expose.exposeType" = "ClusterIP"
        "updateStrategy" = "Never"
    }

```

[operator.log](https://forums.percona.com/uploads/short-url/9DBHJDXaXnqWuV8nhGQPDGIliuE.log) (2.0 MB)

```auto
# Default values for psmdb-cluster.
# This is a YAML-formatted file.
# Declare variables to be passed into your templates.

# Platform type: kubernetes, openshift
# platform: kubernetes

# Cluster DNS Suffix
# DNSsuffix: svc.cluster.local

finalizers:
## Set this if you want to delete database persistent volumes on cluster deletion
  # - delete-psmdb-pvc

pause: false
unmanaged: false
allowUnsafeConfigurations: true
updateStrategy: SmartUpdate
# https://www.percona.com/doc/kubernetes-operator-for-psmongodb/update.html
upgradeOptions:
  versionServiceEndpoint: https://check.percona.com
  # apply: 4.4-recommended
  apply: Disabled
  schedule: "0 2 * * *"
  setFCV: false

image:
  repository: percona/percona-server-mongodb
  # tag: 4.4.10-11
  # tag: 3.4.23
  tag: 3.6.23-13.0

imagePullPolicy: Always
# imagePullSecrets: []
# runUid: 1001
secrets: {}
  # If you set users secret here, it will not be constructed from the values at the
  # bottom of this file, but the operator will use existing one or generate random values
  # users: my-cluster-name-secrets

# Percona Monitoring and Management
pmm:
  enabled: false
  image:
    repository: percona/pmm-client
    tag: 2.24.0
  serverHost: monitoring-service

# replsets[0].nonvoting.resources.requests.memory
replsets:
  - name: rs0
    size: 1
    # externalNodes:
    # - host: 34.124.76.90
    # - host: 34.124.76.91
    # port: 27017
    # votes: 0
    # priority: 0
    # - host: 34.124.76.92
    # configuration: |
    # operationProfiling:
    # mode: slowOp
    # systemLog:
    # verbosity: 1
    antiAffinityTopologyKey: "kubernetes.io/hostname"
    # tolerations: []
    # priorityClass: ""
    # annotations: {}
    # labels: {}
    # nodeSelector: {}
    livenessProbe:
      failureThreshold: 4
      initialDelaySeconds: 120
      periodSeconds: 30
      timeoutSeconds: 30
      startupDelaySeconds: 7200
    # readinessProbe:
    # failureThreshold: 8
    # initialDelaySeconds: 10
    # periodSeconds: 3
    # successThreshold: 1
    # timeoutSeconds: 2
    # runtimeClassName: image-rc
    # sidecars:
    # - image: busybox
    # command: ["/bin/sh"]
    # args: ["-c", "while true; do echo echo $(date -u) 'test' >> /dev/null; sleep 5;done"]
    # name: rs-sidecar-1
    # volumeMounts:
    # - mountPath: /volume1
    # name: sidecar-volume-claim
    # - mountPath: /secret
    # name: sidecar-secret
    # - mountPath: /configmap
    # name: sidecar-config
    # sidecarVolumes:
    # - name: sidecar-secret
    # secret:
    # secretName: mysecret
    # - name: sidecar-config
    # configMap:
    # name: myconfigmap
    # sidecarPVCs:
    # - apiVersion: v1
    # kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
    # metadata:
    # name: sidecar-volume-claim
    # spec:
    # resources:
    # requests:
    # storage: 1Gi
    # volumeMode: Filesystem
    # accessModes:
    # - ReadWriteOnce
    podDisruptionBudget:
      maxUnavailable: 0
    expose:
      enabled: false
      exposeType: LoadBalancer
    nonvoting:
      enabled: false
      size: 3
      # configuration: |
      # operationProfiling:
      # mode: slowOp
      # systemLog:
      # verbosity: 1
      antiAffinityTopologyKey: "kubernetes.io/hostname"
      # tolerations: []
      # priorityClass: ""
      # annotations: {}
      # labels: {}
      # nodeSelector: {}
      podDisruptionBudget:
        maxUnavailable: 1
      resources:
        limits:
          cpu: "300m"
          memory: "0.5G"
        requests:
          cpu: "300m"
          memory: "0.5G"
      volumeSpec:
        # emptyDir: {}
        # hostPath:
        # path: /data
        pvc:
          # storageClassName: standard
          # accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"]
          resources:
            requests:
              storage: 3Gi
    arbiter:
      enabled: false
      size: 1
      antiAffinityTopologyKey: "kubernetes.io/hostname"
      # tolerations: []
      # priorityClass: ""
      # annotations: {}
      # labels: {}
      # nodeSelector: {}
    # schedulerName: ""
    resources:
      limits:
        cpu: "300m"
        memory: "2.0G"
      requests:
        cpu: "300m"
        memory: "0.5G"
    volumeSpec:
      # emptyDir: {}
      # hostPath:
      # path: /data
      pvc:
        # storageClassName: standard
        # accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"]
        resources:
          requests:
            storage: 3Gi

sharding:
  enabled: false

  configrs:
    size: 3
    # externalNodes:
    # - host: 34.124.76.90
    # - host: 34.124.76.91
    # port: 27017
    # votes: 0
    # priority: 0
    # - host: 34.124.76.92
    # configuration: |
    # operationProfiling:
    # mode: slowOp
    # systemLog:
    # verbosity: 1
    antiAffinityTopologyKey: "kubernetes.io/hostname"
    # tolerations: []
    # priorityClass: ""
    # annotations: {}
    # labels: {}
    # nodeSelector: {}
    # livenessProbe: {}
    # readinessProbe: {}
    # runtimeClassName: image-rc
    # sidecars:
    # - image: busybox
    # command: ["/bin/sh"]
    # args: ["-c", "while true; do echo echo $(date -u) 'test' >> /dev/null; sleep 5;done"]
    # name: rs-sidecar-1
    # volumeMounts:
    # - mountPath: /volume1
    # name: sidecar-volume-claim
    # sidecarPVCs: []
    # sidecarVolumes: []
    podDisruptionBudget:
      maxUnavailable: 1
    expose:
      enabled: false
      exposeType: LoadBalancer
    resources:
      limits:
        cpu: "300m"
        memory: "0.5G"
      requests:
        cpu: "300m"
        memory: "0.5G"
    volumeSpec:
      # emptyDir: {}
      # hostPath:
      # path: /data
      # type: Directory
      pvc:
        # storageClassName: standard
        # accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"]
        resources:
          requests:
            storage: 3Gi

  mongos:
    size: 2
    # configuration: |
    # systemLog:
    # verbosity: 1
    antiAffinityTopologyKey: "kubernetes.io/hostname"
    # tolerations: []
    # priorityClass: ""
    # annotations: {}
    # labels: {}
    # nodeSelector: {}
    # livenessProbe: {}
    # readinessProbe: {}
    # runtimeClassName: image-rc
    # sidecars:
    # - image: busybox
    # command: ["/bin/sh"]
    # args: ["-c", "while true; do echo echo $(date -u) 'test' >> /dev/null; sleep 5;done"]
    # name: rs-sidecar-1
    # volumeMounts:
    # - mountPath: /volume1
    # name: sidecar-volume-claim
    # sidecarPVCs: []
    # sidecarVolumes: []
    podDisruptionBudget:
      maxUnavailable: 1
    resources:
      limits:
        cpu: "300m"
        memory: "0.5G"
      requests:
        cpu: "300m"
        memory: "0.5G"
    expose:
      exposeType: ClusterIP
      # loadBalancerSourceRanges:
      # - 10.0.0.0/8
      # serviceAnnotations:
      # service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-backend-protocol: http
    # auditLog:
    # destination: file
    # format: BSON
    # filter: '{}'

backup:
  enabled: false
  restartOnFailure: true
  image:
    repository: percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator
    tag: 1.11.0-backup
  serviceAccountName: percona-server-mongodb-operator
  # annotations:
  # iam.amazonaws.com/role: role-arn
  # resources:
  # limits:
  # cpu: "300m"
  # memory: "0.5G"
  # requests:
  # cpu: "300m"
  # memory: "0.5G"
  storages:
    # s3-us-west:
    # type: s3
    # s3:
    # bucket: S3-BACKUP-BUCKET-NAME-HERE
    # credentialsSecret: my-cluster-name-backup-s3
    # region: us-west-2
    # prefix: ""
    # minio:
    # type: s3
    # s3:
    # bucket: MINIO-BACKUP-BUCKET-NAME-HERE
    # region: us-east-1
    # credentialsSecret: my-cluster-name-backup-minio
    # endpointUrl: http://minio.psmdb.svc.cluster.local:9000/minio/
    # prefix: ""
    # azure-blob:
    # type: azure
    # azure:
    # container: CONTAINER-NAME
    # prefix: PREFIX-NAME
    # credentialsSecret: SECRET-NAME
  pitr:
    enabled: false
    # oplogSpanMin: 10
  tasks:
  # - name: daily-s3-us-west
  # enabled: true
  # schedule: "0 0 * * *"
  # keep: 3
  # storageName: s3-us-west
  # compressionType: gzip
  # - name: weekly-s3-us-west
  # enabled: false
  # schedule: "0 0 * * 0"
  # keep: 5
  # storageName: s3-us-west
  # compressionType: gzip

users:
  MONGODB_BACKUP_USER: backup
  MONGODB_BACKUP_PASSWORD: backup123456
  MONGODB_CLUSTER_ADMIN_USER: clusterAdmin
  MONGODB_CLUSTER_ADMIN_PASSWORD: clusterAdmin123456
  MONGODB_CLUSTER_MONITOR_USER: clusterMonitor
  MONGODB_CLUSTER_MONITOR_PASSWORD: clusterMonitor123456
  MONGODB_USER_ADMIN_USER: userAdmin
  MONGODB_USER_ADMIN_PASSWORD: userAdmin123456
  PMM_SERVER_USER: admin
  PMM_SERVER_PASSWORD: admin

```

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**Author:** ![Ege\_Gunes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/ege_gunes/32/4595_2.png) [@Ege\_Gunes](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ege_Gunes)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 6:39am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/invalid-memory-address-or-nil-pointer-dereference/14381/4 "2022-02-15T06:39:10Z")

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Hi @A_Niu ,

MongoDB 3.6 is not supported in PSMDB Operator and the error is most likely because of it. If you have the chance, could you please try to deploy 4.0, 4.2 or 4.4?

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**Author:** ![A\_Niu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/a_niu/32/5518_2.png) [@A\_Niu](https://forums.percona.com/u/A_Niu)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 10:48am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/invalid-memory-address-or-nil-pointer-dereference/14381/5 "2022-02-15T10:48:21Z")

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with 4.4.10-11, I got same error.

```auto
LAST SEEN TYPE REASON OBJECT MESSAGE
8m20s Normal NoPods poddisruptionbudget/mongo-soby-2-mongod-rs No matching pods found
13m Normal Killing pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Stopping container mongod
12m Warning Unhealthy pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Readiness probe failed: dial tcp 192.168.0.107:27017: i/o timeout
8m20s Warning FailedScheduling pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 0/3 nodes are available: 3 pod has unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims.
8m15s Warning FailedScheduling pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 0/3 nodes are available: 3 pod has unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims.
8m Normal Scheduled pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Successfully assigned mongo-2/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 to 172.30.131.119
7m23s Normal SuccessfulAttachVolume pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 AttachVolume.Attach succeeded for volume "ocid1.volume.oc1.iad.abuwcljruigae6e57zhykrazx3syltcgqzi6qgyqlzdnjlvzbcut4y6mffka"
6m46s Normal Pulling pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Pulling image "percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator:1.11.0"
6m44s Normal Pulled pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Successfully pulled image "percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator:1.11.0" in 1.714313867s
6m44s Normal Created pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Created container mongo-init
6m44s Normal Started pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Started container mongo-init
2m31s Normal Pulling pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Pulling image "percona/percona-server-mongodb:4.4.10-11"
6m42s Normal Pulled pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Successfully pulled image "percona/percona-server-mongodb:4.4.10-11" in 404.691606ms
2m30s Normal Created pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Created container mongod
2m30s Normal Started pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Started container mongod
4m1s Warning Unhealthy pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Liveness probe failed: {"level":"info","msg":"Running Kubernetes liveness check for mongod","time":"2022-02-15T10:40:57Z"}
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x870327]

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
            /go/src/github.com/percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator/cmd/mongodb-healthcheck/main.go:123 +0xca7
3m31s Warning Unhealthy pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Liveness probe failed: {"level":"info","msg":"Running Kubernetes liveness check for mongod","time":"2022-02-15T10:41:27Z"}
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x870327]

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
            /go/src/github.com/percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator/cmd/mongodb-healthcheck/main.go:123 +0xca7
3m1s Warning Unhealthy pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Liveness probe failed: {"level":"info","msg":"Running Kubernetes liveness check for mongod","time":"2022-02-15T10:41:57Z"}
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x870327]

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
            /go/src/github.com/percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator/cmd/mongodb-healthcheck/main.go:123 +0xca7
2m31s Warning Unhealthy pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Liveness probe failed: {"level":"info","msg":"Running Kubernetes liveness check for mongod","time":"2022-02-15T10:42:27Z"}
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x870327]

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
            /go/src/github.com/percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator/cmd/mongodb-healthcheck/main.go:123 +0xca7
2m31s Normal Killing pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Container mongod failed liveness probe, will be restarted
2m30s Normal Pulled pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Successfully pulled image "percona/percona-server-mongodb:4.4.10-11" in 475.493748ms
1s Warning Unhealthy pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Liveness probe failed: {"level":"info","msg":"Running Kubernetes liveness check for mongod","time":"2022-02-15T10:44:57Z"}
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x870327]

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
            /go/src/github.com/percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator/cmd/mongodb-healthcheck/main.go:123 +0xca7
13m Normal Killing pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-1 Stopping container mongod
13m Warning Unhealthy pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-arbiter-0 Readiness probe failed: dial tcp 192.168.1.67:27017: connect: connection refused
13m Normal Killing pod/mongo-soby-2-rs-arbiter-0 Stopping container mongod-arbiter
13m Warning FailedToUpdateEndpoint endpoints/mongo-soby-2-rs Failed to update endpoint mongo-2/mongo-soby-2-rs: Operation cannot be fulfilled on endpoints "mongo-soby-2-rs": the object has been modified; please apply your changes to the latest version and try again
8m20s Normal SuccessfulCreate statefulset/mongo-soby-2-rs create Claim mongod-data-mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Pod mongo-soby-2-rs-0 in StatefulSet mongo-soby-2-rs success
8m20s Normal SuccessfulCreate statefulset/mongo-soby-2-rs create Pod mongo-soby-2-rs-0 in StatefulSet mongo-soby-2-rs successful
8m20s Normal ExternalProvisioning persistentvolumeclaim/mongod-data-mongo-soby-2-rs-0 waiting for a volume to be created, either by external provisioner "oracle.com/oci" or manually created by system administrator
8m9s Normal Provisioning persistentvolumeclaim/mongod-data-mongo-soby-2-rs-0 External provisioner is provisioning volume for claim "mongo-2/mongod-data-mongo-soby-2-rs-0"
8m7s Normal ProvisioningSucceeded persistentvolumeclaim/mongod-data-mongo-soby-2-rs-0 Successfully provisioned volume ocid1.volume.oc1.iad.abuwcljruigae6e57zhykrazx3syltcgqzi6qgyqlzdnjlvzbcut4y6mffka

```

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