[jira] [Created] (ACCUMULO-4359) Accumulo client stuck in infinite loop when Kerberos ticket expires

["Russ Weeks (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Russ Weeks created ACCUMULO-4359:
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             Summary: Accumulo client stuck in infinite loop when Kerberos ticket expires
                 Key: ACCUMULO-4359
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-4359
             Project: Accumulo
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: core
    Affects Versions: 1.7.2
         Environment: Problem only exists when Kerberos is turned on.
            Reporter: Russ Weeks
            Assignee: Russ Weeks
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: 1.8.0


If an Accumulo client tries to send an RPC to a tserver but the client's token is expired, it will get stuck in an infinite loop [here|https://github.com/apache/accumulo/blob/1.7/core/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/core/client/impl/ServerClient.java#L102].

I'm setting the priority to "minor" because it's actually pretty difficult to put the system into this state: you have to create the client with a valid token, let the token expire, and then try to use the client. We hit this by accident in the cleanup phase of a very long-running MR job; the workaround (a.k.a the right way to do it) is to create a new client instead of re-using an old client.

On the tserver side, we get an exception like this every 100ms:
{noformat}
java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: Peer indicated failure: GSS initiate failed
	at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslServerTransport$Factory.getTransport(TSaslServerTransport.java:219)
	at org.apache.accumulo.core.rpc.UGIAssumingTransportFactory$1.run(UGIAssumingTransportFactory.java:51)
	at org.apache.accumulo.core.rpc.UGIAssumingTransportFactory$1.run(UGIAssumingTransportFactory.java:48)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:360)
	at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1637)
	at org.apache.accumulo.core.rpc.UGIAssumingTransportFactory.getTransport(UGIAssumingTransportFactory.java:48)
	at org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:208)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
	at org.apache.accumulo.fate.util.LoggingRunnable.run(LoggingRunnable.java:35)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
{noformat}

On the client side, no output is produced unless debug logging is turned on for o.a.a.core.client.impl.ServerClient, in which case you see a bunch of "Failed to find TGT" errors.

I'm not sure about the best way to fix it, advice is welcome, but I'm thinking that a binary exponential backoff (maybe capped at 30s?) instead of a retry every 100ms would at least lighten the load on the tservers?



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