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[jira] [Updated] (MAPREDUCE-635) IllegalArgumentException is thrown if mapred local dir is not writable.

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Allen Wittenauer updated MAPREDUCE-635:
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    Labels: newbie  (was: )

> IllegalArgumentException is thrown if mapred local dir is not writable.
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>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-635
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-635
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: examples
>            Reporter: Suman Sehgal
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: newbie
>
> If specified mapred local directory doesn't have write permission or is non-existent  then "IllegalArgumentException" is thrown. Following error message was displayed while running a sleep job with non-writable mapred local directory specified in mapred-site.xml. 
> sleep job command : $hadoop_home/bin/hadoop jar hadoop-examples.jar sleep -m 100 -r 10 
> 2009-05-12 05:36:46,491 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskInProgress: Error from attempt_200905120525_0001_m_000000_0: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: n must be positive
>         at java.util.Random.nextInt(Random.java:250)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator$AllocatorPerContext.confChanged(LocalDirAllocator.java:243)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator$AllocatorPerContext.getLocalPathForWrite(LocalDirAllocator.java:289)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator.getLocalPathForWrite(LocalDirAllocator.java:124)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapOutputFile.getSpillFileForWrite(MapOutputFile.java:107)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.sortAndSpill(MapTask.java:1115)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.flush(MapTask.java:1028)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:357)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:305)
>         at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:170)
> This error message(i.e. IllegalArgumentException) ,somehow, doesn't clearly indicate that problem is with mapred local directory. Error message should be more specific in this case.



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