lumberjack output to lumberjack input error and server dies

originally posted at: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/logstash-users/gx7_sP1kYmc/Rhh6jeFbJxIJ

Trying a lumberjack output, per this doc, agent starts, I start writing events to the log the agent is tailing, then get the error on the server side (below) and then logstash server dies….

http://logstash.net/docs/1.2.2/outputs/lumberjack

this config

AGENT CONFIG
------------
.. my input

output {

lumberjack

{ hosts => ["127.0.0.1"] port => 5043 ssl_certificate => "./../logstash-forwarder.crt" }

}

LOGSTASH SERVER CONFIG
---------------------
input {
lumberjack

{ # The port to listen on port => 5043 # The paths to your ssl cert and key ssl_certificate => "./../logstash-forwarder.crt" ssl_key => "./../logstash-forwarder.key" }

}

…my filters, output etc….

CLIENT SIDE ERROR
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Client write error {:e=>#<IOError: Broken pipe>, :backtrace=>["org/jruby/ext/openssl/SSLSocket.java:664:in `syswrite'", "file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/lumberjack/client.rb:97:in `write'", "file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/lumberjack/client.rb:104:in `write_hash'", "file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/lumberjack/client.rb:43:in `write'", "file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/logstash/outputs/lumberjack.rb:28:in `receive'", "file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/logstash/outputs/base.rb:85:in `handle'", "(eval):17:in `initialize'", "org/jruby/RubyProc.java:271:in `call'", "file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/logstash/pipeline.rb:254:in `output'", "file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/logstash/pipeline.rb:213:in `outputworker'", "file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/logstash/pipeline.rb:140:in `start_outputs'"], :level=>:error}

SERVER SIDE ERROR
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Exception in thread "LogStash::Runner" org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: (NoMethodError) undefined method `force_encoding' for nil:NilClass
at RUBY.convert(file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/logstash/util/charset.rb:11)
at RUBY.decode(file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/logstash/codecs/plain.rb:35)
at RUBY.run(file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/logstash/inputs/lumberjack.rb:45)
at org.jruby.RubyProc.call(org/jruby/RubyProc.java:271)
at RUBY.data(file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/lumberjack/server.rb:241)
at RUBY.run(file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/lumberjack/server.rb:223)
at RUBY.data_field_value(file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/lumberjack/server.rb:182)
at RUBY.feed(file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/lumberjack/server.rb:93)
at RUBY.compressed_payload(file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/lumberjack/server.rb:198)
at RUBY.feed(file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/lumberjack/server.rb:93)
at RUBY.run(file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/lumberjack/server.rb:220)
at RUBY.run(file:/Users/bof/Documents/dog/logstash/concurrency_test/logstash_concurrency_test/logstash/logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar!/lumberjack/server.rb:59)