some mrv1 ant tests fail with timeout - due to 4156 ---------------------------------------------------
Key: MAPREDUCE-4160 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-4160 Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce Issue Type: Bug Components: test Affects Versions: 0.23.3 Reporter: Thomas Graves Assignee: Thomas Graves Looks like the old mrv1 history server is getting null error when trying to parse the a null for the TaskFinishedEvent successfulAttemptId which was added in jira 4156. This is causing the ant tests to take like 9 hours to run. [junit] java.io.IOException: java.lang.NullPointerException: null of string in field successfulAttemptId of org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.TaskFinished of union in field event of org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.Event [junit] at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.npe(GenericDatumWriter.java:92) [junit] at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:86) [junit] at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:57) [junit] at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.EventWriter.write(EventWriter.java:66) [junit] at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.JobHistory$MetaInfo.writeEvent(JobHistory.java:512) [junit] at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.JobHistory.logEvent(JobHistory.java:345) [junit] at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.completedTask(JobInProgress.java:2717) [junit] at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.updateTaskStatus(JobInProgress.java:1221) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira