Thanks for the quick response. Any additional pointers on what typically in unhealthy in the HDFS cluster when this error occurs?
Miguel ________________________________________ From: Jeff Lord [jl...@cloudera.com] Sent: 07 August 2013 19:31 To: user@flume.apache.org Subject: Re: java.io.IOException: Bad response ERROR for block ... from datanode Miguel, These errors usually indicate that there is a problem on your HDFS cluster. You should probably investigate the health of the cluster first. -Jeff On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Miguel Coelho dos Santos <miguel.coelho.san...@cern.ch> wrote: > Hi, > > we are using flume to write data to hdfs. > Our hdfs sinks recently started to report these errors. > > 07 Aug 2013 08:41:42,776 WARN [ResponseProcessor for block > BP-1897030109-WAS_IP_1-1343818418899:blk_-6113435038800423576_51499410] > (org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer$ResponseProcessor.run:747) > - DFSOutputStream ResponseProcessor exception for block > BP-1897030109-WAS_IP_1-1343818418899:blk_-6113435038800423576_51499410 > java.io.IOException: Bad response ERROR for block > BP-1897030109-WAS_IP_1-1343818418899:blk_-6113435038800423576_51499410 from > datanode WAS_IP_2:50010 > > 07 Aug 2013 08:41:42,776 WARN [DataStreamer for file > /tmp/syslog/px401/2013-07.tmp/29.tmp/FlumeData.1375857577304.tmp block > BP-1897030109-WAS_IP_1-1343818418899:blk_-6113435038800423576_51499410] > (org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.setupPipelineForAppendOrRecovery:964) > - Error Recovery for block > BP-1897030109-WAS_IP_1-1343818418899:blk_-6113435038800423576_51499410 in > pipeline 10.32.22.22:50010, WAS_IP_3:50010, WAS_IP_2:50010: bad datanode > WAS_IP_2:50010 > > The errors are not referencing a single datanode, we see errors that > reference all datanodes in the hadoop cluster. > > Has anyone seen these errors in the past? What could be causing this? > > Happy to provide extra details about the setup or config files if needed. > Please note that the various IPs were sanitized into WAS_IP_1, etc. > > Regards, > Miguel