Nullpointer exception for pekko-instrumentation in version 1.1.0-M1 onward about kamon HOT 11 OPEN

Pekko 1.1.0-M1 is released. It is a milestone release but the jars are all up on Maven Central.

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#1354 PR experiment does not seem to pick up this issue. Could be a gap in test coverage. @TjarkoG could you see if you could add a unit test that reproduces this?

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There are some changes in the Pekko dispatch code in v1.1.0-M1. I wouldn't have thought them major.

https://github.com/apache/pekko/commits/0930982b9a5625e622c4c4c2a6f71dc9917cb336/actor/src/main/scala/org/apache/pekko/dispatch

apache/pekko#485 is the biggest change

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@pjfanning sry for the late response.
I've looked into it but the whole instrumentation logic is sadly out of my knowledge zone.
Took me way longer to gather the information i put above than im proud to admit :(

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The strange thing is the #1354 CI tests pass for pekko. Any interest in just building your own kamon jars using the branch underlying #1354 ?

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i can try if this would help with our problem but im not to optimistic that it will help.
the problems with the "normal" jars are also only occurring when starting with the kanela-agent for instrumentation and when using the dispatcher "pekko.io.pinned-dispatcher" from the reference.conf "pekko.io.tcp"
edit:
i've build the jar locally based on #1354 and tried it with the same result

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@ivantopo do you have any idea how to create tests for that?

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I created https://github.com/pjfanning/kamon-pekko-http-test based on the description here and this runs fine with no issues.

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Did you start it with the kanela java-agent?
Without it does work but we dont get the instrumentation

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Did you start it with the kanela java-agent? Without it does work but we don't get the instrumentation

Thanks. I hadn't added kanela-agent. The issue happens with it enabled. I updated the sample project. I haven't used Kamon since its early days. I have my own fork that I use myself and it works with Pekko 1.1 (https://github.com/pjfanning/micrometer-pekko).

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I may have messed up the test run but when I tried Scala 3.3.3 and 2.12.19, it seemed ok. Maybe this only happens with Scala 2.13.

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