Awesome.  I agree entirely with your assessment.

Thank you for your help, I do appreciate the time it takes to help
strangers over the internet.  And it is what makes this community
great.

Is there a place on the wiki for little facts like this?  I am more
than happy to add something to help others that may encounter
this issue.  (I can't be the only person using the IBM JVM with
Mahout).




On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:

> It sounds like the actual test failure does not occur in HEAD, so sounds
> like whatever it is is already fixed or rendered moot.
>
> The issue about Hadoop 0.20.203.0 is a Hadoop issue at best, and looks like
> they're already tracking it. I think it should be fixed of course, but it's
> not a Mahout thing.
>
> I am not seeing a Mahout issue here then.
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Marc Millstone <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Good News:  The offending unit tests passes with the combination of
> >
> > IBM JVM + Mahout Trunk + Hadoop 0.20.2
> >
> >
> > To recap:
> >
> > IBM JVM + Mahout .5 + Hadoop 0.20.2 fails with the error
> >
> > testStartParallelFPGrowth(org.apache.mahout.fpm.pfpgrowth.PFPGrowthTest):
> > expected:<{[D=0, E=1, A=0, B=0, C]=1}> but was:<{[A=0, B=0, C=1, D=0,
> > E]=1}>
> >
> > IBM JVM + Mahout trunk + Hadoop  0.20.203.0  fails with user
> initialization
> > problems due to IBM JVM and the sun com.sun.security.auth.UnixPrincipal
> > class.
> >  Is this dependency going to be updated in the future?  It does seem to
> > limit the use of non-Sun JVM's.
> >
> > Are there any tickets that should be filed?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Marc Millstone <[email protected]
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Ok.  Let me play with this some more.  I appreciate your help.
> > >
> > > In .5, under the IBM JVM we still get the Unit test failure in
> PFPGrowth
> > > though.  It seems
> > > to be a true failure too, not an initialization issue.
> > >
> > > I am now going to install the Sun JVM locally on my cluster and link
> > > against
> > > that to see if things pass for Mahout .5.
> > >
> > > Feel free to contact me off list if this is getting to be too detail
> > > oriented, etc for this list.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I strongly suspect it is because we updated to Hadoop 0.20.203.0. 0.5
> > >> depended on 0.20.2. You could locally go back to depending on 0.20.2;
> it
> > >> ought to still work fine with the previous version.
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Marc Millstone <[email protected]>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Ok.  I am starting to think this could be a IBM JVM thing
> > >> > after finding this JIRA:
> > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7211
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > Could it be that something changed between trunk and .5 that caused
> > this
> > >> > issue to manifest itself in different ways?
> > >> > In .5, we just got the wrong answer and in trunk, we are getting
> this
> > >> > permission issue?
> > >> >
> > >> > marc
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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