Writable#write given null DataOutput

[Mike Spreitzer <ms...@us.ibm.com>]

I am running Hadoop core 0.20.2, with no additions or modifications.  I 
ran a series of 30 similar jobs, each with about 3/4 of a billion 
(key,value) pairs written by the mapper.  In the midst of the 29th job, I 
got one NullPointerException, from the first line of my value's write 
method.  That line reads
                out.writeDouble(x);
where "void write(DataOutput out)" is the signature of the write method 
and "double x" is a field of the value object whose write method is being 
invoked.  Is this a known bug?

Thanks,
Mike Spreitzer
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