How can I fix this error. ExecutionError: An error occurred while calling o392.mount: java.lang.NullPointerException

Anotech — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 14:29:42 GMT

Hello, I'm trying to mount my Databricks to my Azure gen 2 data lake to read in data from the container, but I get an error when executing this line of code:

dbutils.fs.mount(
source = "abfss://resumes@choisysresume.dfs.core.windows.net/",
mount_point = "/mnt/resumeSharepointdata", extra_configs = configs)

The error I get is: (Note: The "redacted" is me taking out sensitive information)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ExecutionError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
File <command-739828508581633>:10
      1 #Granting Access and mounting the input to the storage
      3 configs = {"fs.azure.account.auth.type": "OAuth",
      4        "fs.azure.account.oauth.provider.type": "org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.oauth2.ClientCredsTokenProvider",
      5        "fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.id": "redacted",
      6        "fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.secret": "redacted",
      7        "fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.endpoint": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/redacted/oauth2/token",
      8        "fs.azure.createRemoteFileSystemDuringInitialization": "true"}
---> 10 dbutils.fs.mount(
     11 source = "abfss://resumes@redacted.dfs.core.windows.net/",
     12 mount_point = "/mnt/resumeSharepointdata", extra_configs = configs)
 
File /databricks/python_shell/dbruntime/dbutils.py:362, in DBUtils.FSHandler.prettify_exception_message.<locals>.f_with_exception_handling(*args, **kwargs)
    360 exc.__context__ = None
    361 exc.__cause__ = None
--> 362 raise exc
 
ExecutionError: An error occurred while calling o392.mount.
: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at shaded.databricks.azurebfs.org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.oauth2.AzureADAuthenticator.getTokenCall(AzureADAuthenticator.java:320)
	at shaded.databricks.azurebfs.org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.oauth2.AzureADAuthenticator.getTokenCall(AzureADAuthenticator.java:287)
	at shaded.databricks.azurebfs.org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.oauth2.AzureADAuthenticator.getTokenUsingClientCreds(AzureADAuthenticator.java:110)
	at com.databricks.backend.daemon.dbutils.DBUtilsCore.verifyAzureOAuth(DBUtilsCore.scala:1092)
	at com.databricks.backend.daemon.dbutils.DBUtilsCore.verifyAzureFileSystem(DBUtilsCore.scala:1104)
	at com.databricks.backend.daemon.dbutils.DBUtilsCore.createOrUpdateMount(DBUtilsCore.scala:988)
	at com.databricks.backend.daemon.dbutils.DBUtilsCore.$anonfun$mount$1(DBUtilsCore.scala:1036)
	at com.databricks.logging.UsageLogging.$anonfun$recordOperation$1(UsageLogging.scala:555)
	at com.databricks.logging.UsageLogging.executeThunkAndCaptureResultTags$1(UsageLogging.scala:650)
	at com.databricks.logging.UsageLogging.$anonfun$recordOperationWithResultTags$4(UsageLogging.scala:671)
	at com.databricks.logging.UsageLogging.$anonfun$withAttributionContext$1(UsageLogging.scala:412)
	at scala.util.DynamicVariable.withValue(DynamicVariable.scala:62)
	at com.databricks.logging.AttributionContext$.withValue(AttributionContext.scala:158)
	at com.databricks.logging.UsageLogging.withAttributionContext(UsageLogging.scala:410)
	at com.databricks.logging.UsageLogging.withAttributionContext$(UsageLogging.scala:407)
	at com.databricks.backend.daemon.dbutils.FSUtils.withAttributionContext(DBUtilsCore.scala:68)
	at com.databricks.logging.UsageLogging.withAttributionTags(UsageLogging.scala:455)
	at com.databricks.logging.UsageLogging.withAttributionTags$(UsageLogging.scala:440)
	at com.databricks.backend.daemon.dbutils.FSUtils.withAttributionTags(DBUtilsCore.scala:68)
	at com.databricks.logging.UsageLogging.recordOperationWithResultTags(UsageLogging.scala:645)
	at com.databricks.logging.UsageLogging.recordOperationWithResultTags$(UsageLogging.scala:564)
	at com.databricks.backend.daemon.dbutils.FSUtils.recordOperationWithResultTags(DBUtilsCore.scala:68)
	at com.databricks.logging.UsageLogging.recordOperation(UsageLogging.scala:555)
	at com.databricks.logging.UsageLogging.recordOperation$(UsageLogging.scala:525)
	at com.databricks.backend.daemon.dbutils.FSUtils.recordOperation(DBUtilsCore.scala:68)
	at com.databricks.backend.daemon.dbutils.FSUtils.recordDbutilsFsOp(DBUtilsCore.scala:132)
	at com.databricks.backend.daemon.dbutils.DBUtilsCore.mount(DBUtilsCore.scala:1030)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:244)
	at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:380)
	at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:306)
	at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:132)
	at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
	at py4j.ClientServerConnection.waitForCommands(ClientServerConnection.java:195)
	at py4j.ClientServerConnection.run(ClientServerConnection.java:115)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750)

What is the problem here? How could I go about fixing it?

Re: How can I fix this error. ExecutionError: An error occurred while calling o392.mount: java.lang.

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:00:22 GMT

checked it with my mount script and that is exactly the same except that I do not put a '/' after dfs.core.windows.net
You might wanna try that.
Also, is Unity enabled? Because Unity does not allow mounts.

Re: How can I fix this error. ExecutionError: An error occurred while calling o392.mount: java.lang.

endan — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 15:49:48 GMT

I have got same error. Plz can you show how to check if Unity enabled or not?

Re: How can I fix this error. ExecutionError: An error occurred while calling o392.mount: java.lang.

Nikhill — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 02:20:55 GMT

I was using databricks scopes, to get the key which was used in the the config. I received a similar mount error while mounting with "wasbs" driver, "ExecutionError: An error occurred while calling o427.mount.", this was the issue because the scope was not defined correctly, after creating a new scope it solved the error.

If the requirement is not using scopes, a simple script like this worked for me

container_name = "<container_name>" storage_account = "<storage_account>" url = "wasbs://" + container_name + "@" + storage_account + ".blob.core.windows.net/" config = "fs.azure.account.key." + storage_account + ".blob.core.windows.net" key = "<storage_account_key>" mount_folder = "/mnt/newmnt" dbutils.fs.mount(source = url, mount_point = mount_folder, extra_configs = {config : key})

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