This closes #3062

artemis-server/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/core/paging/impl/PagingStoreImpl.java

@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ public class PagingStoreImpl implements PagingStore {
                        final ReadLock managerLock) throws Exception {
 
       if (!running) {
-         throw new IllegalStateException("PagingStore(" + getStoreName() + ") not initialized");
+         return false;
       }
 
       boolean full = isFull();

artemis-server/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/core/persistence/impl/nullpm/NullStorageManager.java

@@ -572,7 +572,11 @@ public class NullStorageManager implements StorageManager {
        * <p>
        * The reasoning is that exposing the lock is more explicit and therefore `less bad`.
        */
+      if (store != null) {
          return store.page(msg, tx, listCtx, null);
+      } else {
+         return false;
+      }
    }
 
    @Override