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Steve Loughran commented on HADOOP-3438:
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Hey Junping, it's one of those very-low-priority issues that will have to
depend on someone hitting it getting really frustrated. If you want to patch
it...
However, it has been around a very long time; it's time to fix it
> 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
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> 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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