As Vino pointed out, you need to configure a checkpoint directory which is
accessible from all TMs. Otherwise you won't be able to recover the state
if the task gets scheduled to a different TaskManager. Usually, people use
HDFS or S3 for that.

Cheers,
Till

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 9:50 AM vino yang <yanghua1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Is the file system configured by RocksDBStateBackend HDFS?[1]
>
> Thanks, vino.
>
> [1]:
> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.6/ops/state/state_backends.html#the-rocksdbstatebackend
>
> John Stone <elliotst...@gmail.com> 于2018年10月30日周二 上午2:54写道:
>
>> I am testing Flink in a Kubernetes cluster and am finding that a job gets
>> caught in a recovery loop.  Logs show that the issue is that a checkpoint
>> cannot be found although checkpoints are being taken per the Flink web UI.
>> Any advice on how to resolve this is most appreciated.
>>
>> Note on below: I can easily replicate this with a single TaskManager (>1
>> slots) and a job parallelism of 1, or two TaskManagers (4 slots each) and a
>> job parallelism of 8.
>>
>> Setup:
>> - Flink 1.6.0
>> - Kubernetes cluster.
>> - 1 JobManager node, 2 TaskManager nodes.
>> - RocksDB backend with incremental checkpointing.
>> - There is not a persistent volume mounted on any of the three nodes.  In
>> production, we would obviously need a persistent volume on the JobManager.
>> - Job submitted and running such that the job is parallelized over both
>> nodes (i.e. each TM has 4 task slots; job parallelism = 5).
>>
>> Test:
>> - Let the job collect a few checkpoints, say, 9 checkpoints.
>> - Kill one of the two TMs (kubectl delete pods <pod-name>).
>> - New TM pod starts.
>>
>> Result:
>> - After the new TM starts, the job will cycle through FAILING -> RUNNING
>> -> FAILING -> RUNNING ->...
>>
>> Relevant Information
>> Contents of JobManager's pod:
>> user@host:~$ kubectl exec -it flink-jobmanager-5bbfcb567-v299g -- /bin/sh
>> # ls flink-data/test-job/checkpoints/f786f0c2e3a4405fe81a1eed720d5c28
>> chk-9  shared  taskowned
>> # ls
>> flink-data/test-job/checkpoints/f786f0c2e3a4405fe81a1eed720d5c28/chk-9
>> _metadata
>> # ls
>> flink-data/test-job/checkpoints/f786f0c2e3a4405fe81a1eed720d5c28/chk-9/_metadata
>>
>> flink-data/dwell-sliding-window-demo/checkpoints/f786f0c2e3a4405fe81a1eed720d5c28/chk-9/_metadata
>> # ls -al
>> flink-data/test-job/checkpoints/f786f0c2e3a4405fe81a1eed720d5c28/chk-9/_metadata
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 flink flink 23665 Oct 29 18:07
>> flink-data/test-job/checkpoints/f786f0c2e3a4405fe81a1eed720d5c28/chk-9/_metadata
>> # ls
>> flink-data/test-job/checkpoints/f786f0c2e3a4405fe81a1eed720d5c28/taskowned
>> # ls
>> flink-data/test-job/checkpoints/f786f0c2e3a4405fe81a1eed720d5c28/shared
>>
>> Stacktrace
>> A similar message is repeated over and over in the logs:
>> - "Could not restore operator state backend for
>> CoBroadcastWithNonKeyedOperator_b0eed879993a32985f1fde75e55fe3e3_(5/5)"
>> - "Could not restore operator state backend for
>> WindowOperator_31dd93ebcd1f26006d3b41a7b50b5d82_(3/5)"
>> - "Could not restore operator state backend for
>> StreamSource_ab0f3d44654e8df0b68f0b30a956403c_(2/5)"
>>
>> 2018-10-29 18:12:48,965 INFO
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.executiongraph.ExecutionGraph        - Job
>> (f786f0c2e3a4405fe81a1eed720d5c28) switched from state RUNNING to FAILING.
>> java.lang.Exception: Exception while creating StreamOperatorStateContext.
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.streamOperatorStateContext(StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.java:192)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator.initializeState(AbstractStreamOperator.java:227)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.initializeState(StreamTask.java:738)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:289)
>>         at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:711)
>>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
>> Caused by: org.apache.flink.util.FlinkException: Could not restore
>> operator state backend for
>> CoBroadcastWithNonKeyedOperator_b0eed879993a32985f1fde75e55fe3e3_(5/5) from
>> any of the 1 provided restore options.
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.BackendRestorerProcedure.createAndRestore(BackendRestorerProcedure.java:137)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.operatorStateBackend(StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.java:242)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.streamOperatorStateContext(StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.java:140)
>>         ... 5 more
>> Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException:
>> /opt/flink/flink-data/test-job/checkpoints/f786f0c2e3a4405fe81a1eed720d5c28/chk-9/b8865e25-3761-4ddf-a466-f035b639184b
>> (No such file or directory)
>>         at java.io.FileInputStream.open0(Native Method)
>>         at java.io.FileInputStream.open(FileInputStream.java:195)
>>         at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:138)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.core.fs.local.LocalDataInputStream.<init>(LocalDataInputStream.java:50)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.core.fs.local.LocalFileSystem.open(LocalFileSystem.java:142)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.core.fs.SafetyNetWrapperFileSystem.open(SafetyNetWrapperFileSystem.java:85)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.state.filesystem.FileStateHandle.openInputStream(FileStateHandle.java:68)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.state.OperatorStreamStateHandle.openInputStream(OperatorStreamStateHandle.java:66)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.state.DefaultOperatorStateBackend.restore(DefaultOperatorStateBackend.java:495)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.state.DefaultOperatorStateBackend.restore(DefaultOperatorStateBackend.java:64)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.BackendRestorerProcedure.attemptCreateAndRestore(BackendRestorerProcedure.java:151)
>>         at
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.BackendRestorerProcedure.createAndRestore(BackendRestorerProcedure.java:123)
>>         ... 7 more
>>
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