I upgraded to 1.0.6 but still see issues. I noticed a new exception today:
I am using logback within tomcat using the sifting appender. Occasionally I see "IO failure in appender java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException" exception in catalina.out. I have prudent mode set to true, and although I have multiple webapps deployed, only one is actually logging messages, though it is doing so from shared libraries as well as app code and multi-threaded. I am using slf4j 1.6.1 and logback 1.0.3. How can I debug this issue? Configuration and full stack below:<configuration><statusListener class="ch.qos.logback.core.status.OnConsoleStatusListener" /><appender name="SIFT" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.sift.SiftingAppender"><discriminator class="ch.qos.logback.classic.sift.JNDIBasedContextDiscriminator"><defaultValue>unknown</defaultValue></discriminator><sift><appender name="FILE-${contextName}" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender"><prudent>true</prudent><rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy"><!-- daily rollover --><fileNamePattern>${catalina.home}/logs/${contextName}.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</fileNamePattern><!-- keep 90 days' worth of history --><maxHistory>90</maxHistory></rollingPolicy><encoder><pattern>%logger{35}[%level|%thread|%d{HH:mm:ss}]: %msg%n</pattern></encoder></appender></sift></appender><root level="INFO"><appender-ref ref="SIFT" /></root></configuration>10:20:05,777 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender[FILE-jobs.v1] - IO failure in appender java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelExceptionat java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelExceptionat at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.ensureOpen(FileChannelImpl.java:88)at at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.position(FileChannelImpl.java:243)at at ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender.safeWrite(FileAppender.java:188)at at ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender.writeOut(FileAppender.java:204)at at ch.qos.logback.core.OutputStreamAppender.subAppend(OutputStreamAppender.java:211)at at ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender.subAppend(RollingFileAppender.java:148)at at ch.qos.logback.core.OutputStreamAppender.append(OutputStreamAppender.java:102)at at ch.qos.logback.core.UnsynchronizedAppenderBase.doAppend(UnsynchronizedAppenderBase.java:88)at at ch.qos.logback.core.sift.SiftingAppenderBase.append(SiftingAppenderBase.java:94)at at ch.qos.logback.core.AppenderBase.doAppend(AppenderBase.java:85)at at ch.qos.logback.core.spi.AppenderAttachableImpl.appendLoopOnAppenders(AppenderAttachableImpl.java:53)at at ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger.appendLoopOnAppenders(Logger.java:282)at at ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger.callAppenders(Logger.java:269)at at ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger.buildLoggingEventAndAppend(Logger.java:470)at at ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger.filterAndLog_0_Or3Plus(Logger.java:424)at at ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger.error(Logger.java:583)After failure, the appender seems to recover, but I assume I am losing log messages:10:25:56,689 |-WARN in ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender[FILE-jobs.v1] - Attempted to append to non started appender [FILE-jobs.v1].10:25:56,724 |-WARN in ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender[FILE-jobs.v1] - Attempted to append to non started appender [FILE-jobs.v1].10:25:56,738 |-WARN in ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender[FILE-jobs.v1] - Attempted to append to non started appender [FILE-jobs.v1].10:25:57,449 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - About to instantiate appender of type [ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender]10:25:57,449 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - Naming appender as [FILE-jobs.v1]10:25:57,450 |-INFO in c.q.l.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy - No compression will be used10:25:57,450 |-INFO in c.q.l.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy - Will use the pattern /etc/webserver/logs/jobs.v1.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log for the active file10:25:57,450 |-INFO in c.q.l.core.rolling.DefaultTimeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy - The date pattern is 'yyyy-MM-dd' from file name pattern '/etc/webserver/logs/jobs.v1.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log'.10:25:57,450 |-INFO in c.q.l.core.rolling.DefaultTimeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy - Roll-over at midnight.10:25:57,450 |-INFO in c.q.l.core.rolling.DefaultTimeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy - Setting initial period to Tue Aug 28 10:25:57 PDT 201210:25:57,450 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.NestedComplexPropertyIA - Assuming default type [ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder] for [encoder] property10:25:57,451 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender[FILE-jobs.v1] - Active log file name: /etc/webserver/logs/jobs.v1.2012-08-28.log10:25:57,451 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender[FILE-jobs.v1] - File property is set to [null]