NPE in expiry thread when a TT is lost --------------------------------------
Key: MAPREDUCE-754 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-754 Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce Issue Type: Bug Components: jobtracker Reporter: Ramya R Priority: Minor NullPointerException is obtained in Tracker Expiry Thread. Below is the exception obtained in the JT logs {noformat} ERROR org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker: Tracker Expiry Thread got exception: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.updateTaskTrackerStatus(JobTracker.java:2971) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.access$300(JobTracker.java:104) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker$ExpireTrackers.run(JobTracker.java:381) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) {noformat} The steps to reproduce this issue are: * Blacklist a TT. * Restart it. * The above exception is obtained when the first instance of TT is marked as lost. However the above exception does not break any functionality. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.