I filed a bug on this: HADOOP-1082 and attached a patch. Hairong
-----Original Message----- From: Venkatesh Seetharam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 9:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Error with latest version Hi there, Howdy. I just updated hadoop from 0.11.2 to 0.12.0 and getting the following error. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.fs.ChecksumFileSystem$FSInputChecker.seek( ChecksumFileSystem.java:138) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataInputStream$PositionCache.seek( FSDataInputStream.java:47) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataInputStream$Buffer.seek( FSDataInputStream.java:82) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataInputStream.seek(FSDataInputStream.java :121) at org.apache.hadoop.streaming.StreamXmlRecordReader.init( StreamXmlRecordReader.java:73) at org.apache.hadoop.streaming.StreamXmlRecordReader.( StreamXmlRecordReader.java:65) at com.gale.searchng.workflow.fetcher.FetcherParser$XmlInputFormat.getRecordRea der (FetcherParser.java:279) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:139) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$Child.main(TaskTracker.java :1445) Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Thanks, Venkatesh "Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
