[jira] [Commented] (MAPREDUCE-2374) "Text File Busy" errors launching MR tasks

["Marc Reichman (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Marc Reichman commented on MAPREDUCE-2374:
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Please consider backporting this to the stable branch, as I am seeing this regularly in 1.0.3/1.0.4. I believe this is the true fix for the original condition (not what was fixed, see the last few comments) of MAPREDUCE-4003. At the very least, if someone could provide a patched hadoop 1.0.3 jar with this bash fix I would try it out.


                
> "Text File Busy" errors launching MR tasks
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-2374
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2374
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.22.0
>            Reporter: Todd Lipcon
>            Assignee: Andy Isaacson
>             Fix For: 0.23.3, 2.0.2-alpha
>
>         Attachments: failed_taskjvmsh.strace, mapreduce-2374-2.txt, mapreduce-2374-branch-1.patch, mapreduce-2374-on-20sec.txt, mapreduce-2374.txt, mapreduce-2374.txt, mapreduce-2374.txt, successfull_taskjvmsh.strace
>
>
> Some very small percentage of tasks fail with a "Text file busy" error.
> The following was the original diagnosis:
> {quote}
> Our use of PrintWriter in TaskController.writeCommand is unsafe, since that class swallows all IO exceptions. We're not currently checking for errors, which I'm seeing result in occasional task failures with the message "Text file busy" - assumedly because the close() call is failing silently for some reason.
> {quote}
> .. but turned out to be another issue as well (see below)

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