Certain Pipes tasks fail, after exiting the C++ application -----------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-1740 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1740 Project: Hadoop Issue Type: Bug Components: pipes Environment: Version: 0.15.0-dev, r565628 Compiled: Tue Aug 14 20:55:37 UTC 2007 by hadoopqa 165 nodes Reporter: Srikanth Kakani Priority: Critical Steps to reproduce: Run a pipes job. I had 1182 mappers and 300 reducers and produced 4,353,892,559 records and 212,030,552,146 bytes output. Some of the tasks failed (randomly), all had the same exception (probably a race condition) task_200708201818_0002_m_000681_0 tip_200708201818_0002_m_000681 fwm521075.inktomisearch.com FAILED java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.flush(MapTask.java:592) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:190) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$Child.main(TaskTracker.java:1800) Last 4KB Last 8KB All task_200708201818_0002_m_000681_1 tip_200708201818_0002_m_000681 fwm521127.inktomisearch.com FAILED java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.flush(MapTask.java:592) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:190) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$Child.main(TaskTracker.java:1800) Last 4KB Last 8KB All task_200708201818_0002_m_000868_0 tip_200708201818_0002_m_000868 fwm521160.inktomisearch.com FAILED java.io.IOException: Task process exit with nonzero status of 1. at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskRunner.runChild(TaskRunner.java:405) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskRunner.run(TaskRunner.java:291) Last 4KB Last 8KB All 2007-08-20 19:25:59,909 INFO org.apache.hadoop.metrics.jvm.JvmMetrics: Initializing JVM Metrics with processName=MAP, sessionId= 2007-08-20 19:26:00,002 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask: numReduceTasks: 300 2007-08-20 19:26:01,344 INFO org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader: Loaded the native-hadoop library 2007-08-20 19:26:01,345 INFO org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.zlib.ZlibFactory: Successfully loaded & initialized native-zlib library 2007-08-20 19:49:26,727 WARN org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: Error running child java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.flush(MapTask.java:592) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:190) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$Child.main(TaskTracker.java:1800) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.