NPE when core-site.xml is misconfirued with hos:port is missing in the default filesystem's uri -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HDFS-2358 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2358 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: name-node Affects Versions: 0.20.204.0 Reporter: Rajit in core-site.xml if default filesystem's uri is misconfigured , NN does not come up and in NN shows NPE java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.createSocketAddr(NetUtils.java:142) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.getAddress(NameNode.java:195) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.getAddress(NameNode.java:225) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:259) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:458) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1226) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1235) It is better to give meaningful error messege than NPE -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira