Check if you are having correct permission for the user through which you are running the job.
* Warm Regards_**∞_* *Shashwat Shriparv* Big-Data Engineer(HPC) [image: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/shashwat-shriparv/19/214/2a9]<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/shashwat-shriparv/19/214/2a9>[image: https://twitter.com/shriparv] <https://twitter.com/shriparv>[image: https://www.facebook.com/shriparv] <https://www.facebook.com/shriparv>[image: http://google.com/+ShashwatShriparv] <http://google.com/+ShashwatShriparv>[image: http://www.youtube.com/user/sShriparv/videos]<http://www.youtube.com/user/sShriparv/videos>[image: http://profile.yahoo.com/SWXSTW3DVSDTF2HHSRM47AV6DI/] <[email protected]> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Viswanathan J <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting the following error frequently while running MR jobs. > > ERROR org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskStatus: Trying to set finish time for > task attempt_201312040159_126927_m_000000_0 when no start time is set, > stackTrace is : java.lang.Exception > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskStatus.setFinishTime(TaskStatus.java:145) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskInProgress.incompleteSubTask(TaskInProgress.java:700) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.failedTask(JobInProgress.java:3004) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.updateTaskStatus(JobInProgress.java:1185) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.updateTaskStatuses(JobTracker.java:4471) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.processHeartbeat(JobTracker.java:3306) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.heartbeat(JobTracker.java:3001) > at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor44.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$Server.call(RPC.java:587) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1432) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1428) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396) > at > org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1190) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:1426) > > Please help. > > -- > Regards, > Viswa.J >
