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Doug Cutting resolved HADOOP-529. --------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed I just committed this. Thanks, Owen! > SequenceFile fails task with NullPointerException in codec initialization > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-529 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-529 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Bug > Components: mapred > Affects Versions: 0.6.0 > Reporter: Sanjay Dahiya > Assigned To: Owen O'Malley > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.6.1 > > Attachments: seq-file-codec-init.patch > > > Sequence file fails in following block of code in 0.6 hadoop ( Sep 13th trunk > ) - > if (decompress) { > valInFilter = this.codec.createInputStream(valBuffer); ---> throws > NullPointerException > this.codec is apparently not initialized in > if (version >= CUSTOM_COMPRESS_VERSION && this.decompress) { > try { > this.codec = (CompressionCodec) <---- Init code. > and is used later. It should probably check for version also before using the > this.codec. > 2006-09-13 07:37:55,010 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskInProgress: Error > from task_0003_m_001601_0: java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Reader.init(SequenceFile.java:1001) > at > org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Reader.<init>(SequenceFile.java:933) > at > org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Reader.<init>(SequenceFile.java:924) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileRecordReader.<init>(SequenceFileRecordReader.java:37) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileInputFormat.getRecordReader(SequenceFileInputFormat.java:53) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:175) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$Child.main(TaskTracker.java:1066) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira