We included a patch in 0.9.0-rc1 (currently being voted) that uses a default SPARK_HOME if the user doesn't specify it. Having an NPE is indeed bad behavior here. Thanks for reporting this.
- Patrick On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:09 AM, vuakko <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, thanks for the help. The environment variable SPARK_HOME was messed up, > that was the cause. > Incidentally, another thread > > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/master-attempted-to-re-register-the-worker-and-then-took-all-workers-as-unregistered-td553.html > > just had the same problem and I concur with the writer there: having a bad > application shouldn't crash the workers. > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Akka-error-kills-workers-in-standalone-mode-tp537p587.html > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
