[jira] Resolved: (HADOOP-3112) Distcp fails with null pointer exception.

["Chris Douglas (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3112?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Chris Douglas resolved HADOOP-3112.
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    Resolution: Duplicate

Duplicate of HADOOP-3093

> Distcp fails with null pointer exception.
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-3112
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3112
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Mahadev konar
>            Assignee: Robert Chansler
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 0.17.0
>
>
> Copy failed: java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.SerializationFactory.<init>(SerializationFactory.java:52)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Writer.init(SequenceFile.java:910)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Writer.<init>(SequenceFile.java:846)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile.createWriter(SequenceFile.java:394)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile.createWriter(SequenceFile.java:285)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.util.CopyFiles.setup(CopyFiles.java:743)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.util.CopyFiles.copy(CopyFiles.java:520)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.util.CopyFiles.run(CopyFiles.java:591)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.util.CopyFiles.main(CopyFiles.java:607)
> this is the null pointer exception you get when using 0.17 to distcp.
> i was running using hod 
> with hadoop --config hoddir distcp .....................
> After investigating further with help from chris, we found out that it is using conf.getStrings which does not have a default. Also, hadoop default conf directory is not added to the classpath  when we run bin/hadoop on the client side. 
> On copying hadoop-default.xml to my config directory it worked fine. 
> we can add hadoop default conf directory to the classpath? or  use a default in the call for conf.getStrings("io.serializations")?
> I am marking this as a blocker for someone to take a look. 

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