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Chris Douglas updated HADOOP-4137: ---------------------------------- Status: Open (was: Patch Available) > NPE in GangliaContext.xdr_string (GangliaContext.java:195) > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-4137 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4137 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Bug > Components: metrics > Affects Versions: 0.18.1, 0.18.0 > Reporter: Michael Bieniosek > Attachments: hadoop_ganglia_npe-4137.patch, > hadoop_ganglia_npe-4137.patch > > > Exception in thread "Timer thread for monitoring dfs" > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.metrics.ganglia.GangliaContext.xdr_string(GangliaContext.java:195) > at > org.apache.hadoop.metrics.ganglia.GangliaContext.emitMetric(GangliaContext.java:138) > at > org.apache.hadoop.metrics.ganglia.GangliaContext.emitRecord(GangliaContext.java:123) > at > org.apache.hadoop.metrics.spi.AbstractMetricsContext.emitRecords(AbstractMetricsContext.java:304) > at > org.apache.hadoop.metrics.spi.AbstractMetricsContext.timerEvent(AbstractMetricsContext.java:290) > at > org.apache.hadoop.metrics.spi.AbstractMetricsContext.access$000(AbstractMetricsContext.java:50) > at > org.apache.hadoop.metrics.spi.AbstractMetricsContext$1.run(AbstractMetricsContext.java:249) > at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Unknown Source) > at java.util.TimerThread.run(Unknown Source) > It looks like this caused the datanode to hang, though I accidentally killed > the datanode before I could dump its stack. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.