streaming job with Control characters in the command causes runtime exception in the job tracker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-709 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-709 Project: Hadoop Issue Type: Bug Components: contrib/streaming Reporter: dhruba borthakur Assigned To: dhruba borthakur I run a streaming job with a Ctrl-A character in the command line option as follows: $HSTREAMING -mapper "/bin/sort -t'^A'" -input "input/*" -output output It causes a exeception as listed below. If i run the same command without the Ctrl-A character the command completes successfully. Exception in thread "main" org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: java.io.IOException: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character reference "" is an invalid XML character. at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.loadResource(Configuration.java:551) at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.loadResources(Configuration.java:472) at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getProps(Configuration.java:453) at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.get(Configuration.java:201) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf.getUser(JobConf.java:175) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.<init>(JobInProgress.java:88) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.submitJob(JobTracker.java:1016) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:337) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:514) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client$Connection.run(Client.java:248) -- 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