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.
>
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