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Raghu Angadi commented on HADOOP-1949: -------------------------------------- This happened when Namenode was under heavy load and timing out connections. So clients would be closing the connections. > NPE in IPC handler. > ------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-1949 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1949 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Bug > Components: ipc > Affects Versions: 0.14.1 > Reporter: Raghu Angadi > > Noticed a few of the following traces during upgrade of a large cluster to > 0.14.1 : > {noformat} > 2007-09-26 17:21:40,134 WARN org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server handler > 20 on 8020, call > processUpgradeCommand([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > from 192.0.0.100:40500: output error > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.ipc.SocketChannelOutputStream.flushBuffer(SocketChannelOutputStream.java:108) > at > org.apache.hadoop.ipc.SocketChannelOutputStream.write(SocketChannelOutputStream.java:89) > at > java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:65) > at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:123) > at java.io.DataOutputStream.flush(DataOutputStream.java:106) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:585) > {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.