Set Collector Log in New to avoid Shutdown panic (open-telemetry#4827)

* Set collector logger to Nop on initialization to ensure Shutdown will not panic if called before logger init

Signed-off-by: Corbin Phelps <corbin.phelps@bluemedora.com>

* Updated changelog

Signed-off-by: Corbin Phelps <corbin.phelps@bluemedora.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
 - Add validation to check at least one endpoint is specified in otlphttpexporter's configuration (#4860)
 
+## 🧰 Bug fixes 🧰
+
+- Initialized logger with collector to avoid potential race condition panic on `Shutdown` (#4827)
+
 ## v0.45.0 Beta
 
 ### 🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

service/collector.go

@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ func New(set CollectorSettings) (*Collector, error) {
 	state := atomic.Value{}
 	state.Store(Starting)
 	return &Collector{
+		logger: zap.NewNop(), // Set a Nop logger as a place holder until a logger is created based on configuration
+
 		set:   set,
 		state: state,
 	}, nil

service/collector_test.go

@@ -135,6 +135,24 @@ func TestCollector_Start(t *testing.T) {
 	}, time.Second*2, time.Millisecond*200)
 }
 
+// TestCollector_ShutdownNoop verifies that shutdown can be called even if a collector
+// has yet to be started and it will execute without error.
+func TestCollector_ShutdownNoop(t *testing.T) {
+	factories, err := testcomponents.DefaultFactories()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	set := CollectorSettings{
+		BuildInfo:      component.NewDefaultBuildInfo(),
+		Factories:      factories,
+		ConfigProvider: MustNewDefaultConfigProvider([]string{filepath.Join("testdata", "otelcol-config.yaml")}, nil),
+	}
+	col, err := New(set)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// Should be able to call Shutdown on an unstarted collector and nothing happens
+	require.NotPanics(t, func() { col.Shutdown() })
+}
+
 type mockColTelemetry struct{}
 
 func (tel *mockColTelemetry) init(*Collector) error {