we are also receiving errors like this one...not sure if these are related or not...
[29/05/14 14:01:50:126 CDT] ERROR image.ResizeImageServlet: Error creating thumbnail from ResizeImage servlet: null
ClientAbortException: java.net.SocketException: Software caused connection abort: socket write error
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:358)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.flushBuffer(ByteChunk.java:434)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.append(ByteChunk.java:349)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.writeBytes(OutputBuffer.java:381)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.write(OutputBuffer.java:370)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteOutputStream.write(CoyoteOutputStream.java:89)
at com.dotmarketing.servlets.image.ResizeImageServlet.service(ResizeImageServlet.java:486)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.dotmarketing.filters.CMSFilter.doFilter(CMSFilter.java:128)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.dotmarketing.filters.AutoLoginFilter.doFilter(AutoLoginFilter.java:61)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.mlh.dotcms.override.filters.URLMapFilter.doFilter(URLMapFilter.java:93)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.dotmarketing.filters.TimeMachineFilter.doFilter(TimeMachineFilter.java:36)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.dotmarketing.filters.CharsetEncodingFilter.doFilter(CharsetEncodingFilter.java:140)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:465)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:190)
at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:291)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:769)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:698)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:891)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:690)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Software caused connection abort: socket write error
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:109)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:153)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.send(ChannelSocket.java:532)
at org.apache.jk.common.JkInputStream.doWrite(JkInputStream.java:162)
at org.apache.coyote.Response.doWrite(Response.java:560)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:353)
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