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Subroto Sanyal commented on HADOOP-3438:
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Recently encountered the issue:
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java.lang.RuntimeException: JobTracker crashed
at
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MiniMRCluster$JobTrackerRunner.checkFatalError(MiniMRCluster.java:101)
at
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MiniMRCluster.startJobTracker(MiniMRCluster.java:620)
at
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MiniMRCluster.startJobTracker(MiniMRCluster.java:599)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MiniMRCluster.(MiniMRCluster.java:511)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MiniMRCluster.(MiniMRCluster.java:459)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MiniMRCluster.(MiniMRCluster.java:451)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MiniMRCluster.(MiniMRCluster.java:441)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MiniMRCluster.(MiniMRCluster.java:431)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MiniMRCluster.(MiniMRCluster.java:422)
at
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TestDiskSpillingInMapper.testDiskSpillingShouldHappen(TestDiskSpillingInMapper.java:48)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.io.File.(File.java:222)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobHistory.init(JobHistory.java:239)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.(JobTracker.java:1394)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.startTracker(JobTracker.java:236)
at
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MiniMRCluster$JobTrackerRunner.run(MiniMRCluster.java:118)
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This needs to be fixed....
> NPE if job tracker started and system property hadoop.log.dir is not set
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> Key: HADOOP-3438
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3438
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: metrics
> Affects Versions: 0.18.0
> Environment: amd64 ubuntu, jrockit 1.6
> Reporter: Steve Loughran
>
> This is a regression. If the system property "hadoop.log.dir" is not set, the
> job tracker NPEs rather than starts up.
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