Hi spark. Where is akka coming from in spark ? I see the distribution referenced is a spark artifact... but not in the apache namespace.
<akka.group>org.spark-project.akka</akka.group> <akka.version>2.3.4-spark</akka.version> Clearly this is a deliberate thought out change (See SPARK-1812), but its not clear where 2.3.4 spark is coming from and who is maintaining its release? -- jay vyas PS I've had some conversations with will benton as well about this, and its clear that some modifications to akka are needed, or else a protobug error occurs, which amount to serialization incompatibilities, hence if one wants to build spark from sources, the patched akka is required (or else, manual patching needs to be done)... 15/01/28 22:58:10 ERROR ActorSystemImpl: Uncaught fatal error from thread [sparkWorker-akka.remote.default-remote-dispatcher-6] shutting down ActorSystem [sparkWorker] java.lang.VerifyError: class akka.remote.WireFormats$AkkaControlMessage overrides final method getUnknownFields.()Lcom/google/protobuf/UnknownFieldSet;