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Lei (Eddy) Xu commented on HDFS-9124: ------------------------------------- Thanks a lot for reporting this, [~syedakram]. It looks like {{datanode.data}} has not been initialized yet before receiving WRITE_BLOCK requests. Did you see this particular DN restarts at that time? > NullPointerException when underreplicated blocks are there > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-9124 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9124 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 2.7.1 > Reporter: Syed Akram > Assignee: Syed Akram > > 2015-09-22 09:48:47,830 ERROR > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode: dn1:50010:DataXceiver error > processing WRITE_BLOCK operation src: /dn1:42973 dst: /dn2:50010 > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.BlockReceiver.<init>(BlockReceiver.java:186) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataXceiver.writeBlock(DataXceiver.java:677) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.Receiver.opWriteBlock(Receiver.java:137) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.Receiver.processOp(Receiver.java:74) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataXceiver.run(DataXceiver.java:251) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)