Github user mxm commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/202#issuecomment-73926790 No, same result. I tried including my hostname in /etc/hosts which got me past the above exception. However, now I get 02/11/2015 18:41:00 Job execution switched to status RUNNING. 02/11/2015 18:41:00 DataSource (ValueSource)(1/1) switched to SCHEDULED 02/11/2015 18:41:00 DataSource (ValueSource)(1/1) switched to DEPLOYING 02/11/2015 18:41:01 DataSource (ValueSource)(1/1) switched to RUNNING 02/11/2015 18:41:01 MapPartition (PythonFlatMap -> PythonCombine)(1/1) switched to SCHEDULED 02/11/2015 18:41:01 MapPartition (PythonFlatMap -> PythonCombine)(1/1) switched to DEPLOYING 02/11/2015 18:41:01 DataSource (ValueSource)(1/1) switched to FINISHED 02/11/2015 18:41:01 MapPartition (PythonFlatMap -> PythonCombine)(1/1) switched to RUNNING 02/11/2015 18:41:13 MapPartition (PythonFlatMap -> PythonCombine)(1/1) switched to FAILED java.lang.Exception: The user defined 'open()' method caused an exception: External process for task MapPartition (PythonFlatMap -> PythonCombine) stopped responding. at org.apache.flink.runtime.operators.RegularPactTask.run(RegularPactTask.java:491) at org.apache.flink.runtime.operators.RegularPactTask.invoke(RegularPactTask.java:360) at org.apache.flink.runtime.execution.RuntimeEnvironment.run(RuntimeEnvironment.java:204) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: External process for task MapPartition (PythonFlatMap -> PythonCombine) stopped responding. at org.apache.flink.languagebinding.api.java.common.streaming.Streamer.open(Streamer.java:72) at org.apache.flink.languagebinding.api.java.python.functions.PythonMapPartition.open(PythonMapPartition.java:48) at org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.util.FunctionUtils.openFunction(FunctionUtils.java:33) at org.apache.flink.runtime.operators.RegularPactTask.run(RegularPactTask.java:487) ... 3 more
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