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[jira] Updated: (HADOOP-1171) NPE in TaskTracker RenitTrackerAction

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1171?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Christian Kunz updated HADOOP-1171:
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    Affects Version/s: 0.18.2
             Assignee:     (was: Tahir Hashmi)

Our Jobtracker lost connections to tasktrackers for a while, probably because of some network problem, and when they came back they got reinitialized with the result that they crashed with a NPE (we lost 90% of tasktrackers this way)

Typical log from jobtracker:
2009-01-17 04:23:02,185 WARN org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker: Serious problem, cannot find record of 'previous' heartbeat for 'tracker_xxx:localhost/127.0.0.1:60944'; reinitializing the tasktracker

Typical exception
2009-01-17 05:00:50,735 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: Can not start task tracker because java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.initialize(TaskTracker.java:434)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.run(TaskTracker.java:1364)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.main(TaskTracker.java:2355)

> NPE in TaskTracker RenitTrackerAction 
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-1171
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1171
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: mapred
>    Affects Versions: 0.12.1, 0.18.2
>            Reporter: Koji Noguchi
>
> TaskTracker log shows =============
> 2007-03-28 02:32:18,076 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: Recieved RenitTrackerAction from JobTracker
> 2007-03-28 02:32:18,494 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: Can not start task tracker because java.lang.NullPointerException
>   at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$TaskInProgress.jobHasFinished(TaskTracker.java:1187)
>   at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.close(TaskTracker.java:430)
>   at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.run(TaskTracker.java:917)
>   at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.main(TaskTracker.java:1589)
> JobTracker log shows ==============
> 2007-03-28 02:31:18,977 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker: Lost tracker '____.____.com'
> ...
> 2007-03-28 02:31:18,977 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress: TaskTracker at 'tracker____.___.com' turned 'flaky'
> ...
> 2007-03-28 02:32:18,075 WARN org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker: Status from unknown Tracker : tracker____.___.com:#####

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