My guess for this issue is that the MR input initialize does not wait for all 
inputs to be ready which can trigger occasional NPE. If I can get a local 
repro, I will create a patch for this and confirm if its the actual issue.

Thanks
Prasanth


> On Jun 30, 2015, at 4:15 PM, Prasanth Jayachandran 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Few fixes went in after hive 0.14 release. Is it possible to try in the 
> recently released 1.2.1 version? Also can you send yarn application logs to 
> see whats going on.
> 
> Thanks
> Prasanth
> 
>> On Jun 30, 2015, at 1:44 AM, patcharee <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am using hive 0.14 + tez 0.5. It fails to alter table concatenate 
>> occasionally (see the exception below). It is strange that it fails from 
>> time to time not predictable. However, it works on mr.
>> Is there any suggestion/clue?
>> 
>> hive> alter table 4dim partition(zone=2,z=15,year=2005,month=4) CONCATENATE;
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  
>>       VERTICES      STATUS  TOTAL  COMPLETED  RUNNING  PENDING FAILED  KILLED
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  
>> File Merge            FAILED     -1          0        0 -1 0       0
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  
>> VERTICES: 00/01  [>>--------------------------] 0%    ELAPSED TIME: 
>> 1435651968.00 s
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  
>> Status: Failed
>> Vertex failed, vertexName=File Merge, 
>> vertexId=vertex_1435307579867_0041_1_00, diagnostics=[Vertex 
>> vertex_1435307579867_0041_1_00 [File Merge] killed/failed due 
>> to:ROOT_INPUT_INIT_FAILURE, Vertex Input: 
>> [hdfs://service-10-0.local:8020/apps/hive/warehouse/wrf_tables/4dim/zone=2/z=15/year=2005/month=4]
>>  initializer failed, vertex=vertex_1435307579867_0041_1_00 [File Merge], 
>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>   at 
>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveInputFormat.init(HiveInputFormat.java:265)
>>   at 
>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.CombineHiveInputFormat.getSplits(CombineHiveInputFormat.java:452)
>>   at 
>> org.apache.tez.mapreduce.hadoop.MRInputHelpers.generateOldSplits(MRInputHelpers.java:441)
>>   at 
>> org.apache.tez.mapreduce.hadoop.MRInputHelpers.generateInputSplitsToMem(MRInputHelpers.java:295)
>>   at 
>> org.apache.tez.mapreduce.common.MRInputAMSplitGenerator.initialize(MRInputAMSplitGenerator.java:124)
>>   at 
>> org.apache.tez.dag.app.dag.RootInputInitializerManager$InputInitializerCallable$1.run(RootInputInitializerManager.java:245)
>>   at 
>> org.apache.tez.dag.app.dag.RootInputInitializerManager$InputInitializerCallable$1.run(RootInputInitializerManager.java:239)
>>   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>   at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
>>   at 
>> org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1628)
>>   at 
>> org.apache.tez.dag.app.dag.RootInputInitializerManager$InputInitializerCallable.call(RootInputInitializerManager.java:239)
>>   at 
>> org.apache.tez.dag.app.dag.RootInputInitializerManager$InputInitializerCallable.call(RootInputInitializerManager.java:226)
>>   at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
>>   at 
>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
>>   at 
>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
>>   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
>> ]
>> DAG failed due to vertex failure. failedVertices:1 killedVertices:0
>> FAILED: Execution Error, return code 2 from 
>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask
>> 
>> BR,
>> Patcharee
> 

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