Does anyone have any inputs on this? Was waiting to hear from someone
out there...

Any help would be most appreciated.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Decimus Phostle
<decimusphos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> I am trying to run a simplistic Hadoop pipes program (the typical
> wordcount example). Unfortunately I am seeing a bunch of errors while
> running it as follows:
>
> $ bin/hadoop pipes -Dhadoop.pipes.java.recordreader=true \
>                  -Dhadoop.pipes.java.recordwriter=true \
>                  -input <inputHDFSPath> \
>                  -output <outputHDFSPath> \
>                  -program <cppBinaryHDFSPath>
>
> This is resulting in a NullPointerException:
>
> java.io.IOException: pipe child exception
>        at 
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.pipes.Application.abort(Application.java:160)
>        at 
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.pipes.PipesMapRunner.run(PipesMapRunner.java:102)
>        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:397)
>        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:330)
>        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child$4.run(Child.java:217)
>        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
>        at 
> org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:742)
>        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:211)
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>        at 
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.pipes.PipesMapRunner.run(PipesMapRunner.java:86)
>        ... 7 more
>
> More details have been posted here: http://goo.gl/GMy8Q
>
> It would be great if someone could point me in the right direction.
> Thanks in advance!!
>
> Regards,
> DP
>

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