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Hairong Kuang resolved HDFS-1904. --------------------------------- Resolution: Duplicate > Secondary Namenode dies when a mkdir on a non-existent parent directory is run > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HDFS-1904 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1904 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: name-node > Affects Versions: 0.23.0 > Environment: Linux > Reporter: Ravi Prakash > Priority: Blocker > > Steps to reproduce: > 1. Configure secondary namenode with {{fs.checkpoint.period}} set to a small > value (eg 3 seconds) > 2. Format filesystem and start HDFS > 3. hadoop fs -mkdir /foo/bar ; sleep 5 ; echo | hadoop fs -put - /foo/bar/baz > 2NN will crash with the following trace on the next checkpoint. The primary > NN also crashes on next restart > 11/05/10 15:19:28 ERROR namenode.SecondaryNameNode: Throwable Exception in > doCheckpoint: > 11/05/10 15:19:28 ERROR namenode.SecondaryNameNode: > java.lang.NullPointerException: Panic: parent does not exist > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.addChild(FSDirectory.java:1693) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.addChild(FSDirectory.java:1707) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.addNode(FSDirectory.java:1544) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.unprotectedAddFile(FSDirectory.java:288) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLogLoader.loadEditRecords(FSEditLogLoader.java:234) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLogLoader.loadFSEdits(FSEditLogLoader.java:116) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLogLoader.loadFSEdits(FSEditLogLoader.java:62) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.loadFSEdits(FSImage.java:723) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode$CheckpointStorage.doMerge(SecondaryNameNode.java:720) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode$CheckpointStorage.access$500(SecondaryNameNode.java:610) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.doMerge(SecondaryNameNode.java:487) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.doCheckpoint(SecondaryNameNode.java:448) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.doWork(SecondaryNameNode.java:312) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.run(SecondaryNameNode.java:276) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira