When a  task tracker is killed, there is a Null Pointer exception thrown.
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                 Key: MAPREDUCE-746
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-746
             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: jobtracker
            Reporter: Iyappan Srinivasan
            Priority: Minor


When a task tracker is killed, the job completes. But tehre is a null pointer 
exception thrown:

java.io.IOException: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker$FaultyTrackersInfo.removeHostCapacity(JobTracker.java:759)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker$FaultyTrackersInfo.blackListTracker(JobTracker.java:624)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker$FaultyTrackersInfo.incrementFaults(JobTracker.java:601)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.finalizeJob(JobTracker.java:2337)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.garbageCollect(JobInProgress.java:2998)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.jobComplete(JobInProgress.java:2584)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.completedTask(JobInProgress.java:2473)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.updateTaskStatus(JobInProgress.java:1047)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.updateTaskStatuses(JobTracker.java:3867)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.processHeartbeat(JobTracker.java:3079)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.heartbeat(JobTracker.java:2817)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:508)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:964)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:960)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:958)

Steps to reproduce the issue:
1) Bring up a 5 node cluster.
2) set mapred.max.tracker.failures to 1
3) Run a sleep command with 5 maps and 5 redcues.
4) Kill a task tracker, when map is 80% complete.
5) Kill the task tracker, by using "kill -9 process_id". 
6) At the time of killing, it was running 2 maps and 2 reduces.
7) Allow 12 minutes to elapse for that task tracker to go out of job nodes list
8) Then job completes successfully by giving the task attempts of the lost 
trackers to other nodes.
9) The job tracker logs has this exception.







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