Thanks Flavio.

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Flavio Junqueira <[email protected]> wrote:

> Exactly, that's my suspicion so far, but we need to make sure. I'm also
> seeing if I can reproduce the problem independently.
>
> -Flavio
>
>
> On Apr 5, 2012, at 9:28 PM, John Nagro wrote:
>
> Okay cool, thanks for the help Flavio. So, just to recap so that I
> understand, you suspect that we experienced BOOKKEEPER-198, put the
> machines into a funky state, and now we just need to start over with these
> servers - however 198 has been patched and we shouldn't see this specific
> failure mode again with a current cut of the code?
>
> Thanks again for all your assistance.
>
> -John
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Flavio Junqueira <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 5, 2012, at 8:41 PM, John Nagro wrote:
>>
>> All 5 machines behave the same way. It is not the end of the world if we
>> can't recover the data from them in this instance, but at some point the
>> data sent through this WAL will be very important to be able to recover in
>> the event of a crash.
>>
>>
>> Understood and agreed, losing data is not an option. Unfortunately, it
>> sounds like you have hit a nasty bug, let's make sure to fix it because I'm
>> sure it could also hit others, especially if BOOKKEEPER-198 does not fix
>> it.
>>
>>
>> I tried to move the logs/current directory out of the way, replacing it
>> with another and got this:
>>
>> 2012-04-05 14:39:31,829 - INFO  [main-EventThread:Bookie$3@678] - ZK
>> client has been reconnected to the ZK server!
>> 2012-04-05 14:39:31,854 - ERROR [main:Bookie@331] - Cookie exists in
>> zookeeper, but not in all local directories
>> java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/bookkeeper/logs/current/VERSION (No
>> such file or directory)
>>  at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
>> at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
>>  at java.util.Scanner.<init>(Scanner.java:636)
>> at org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.Cookie.readFromDirectory(Cookie.java:188)
>>  at org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.Bookie.checkEnvironment(Bookie.java:326)
>> at org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.Bookie.<init>(Bookie.java:401)
>>  at org.apache.bookkeeper.proto.BookieServer.<init>(BookieServer.java:75)
>> at org.apache.bookkeeper.proto.BookieServer.main(BookieServer.java:294)
>> 2012-04-05 14:39:31,856 - ERROR [main:BookieServer@308] - Exception
>> running bookie server :
>> org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.BookieException$InvalidCookieException
>> at org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.Bookie.checkEnvironment(Bookie.java:332)
>>  at org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.Bookie.<init>(Bookie.java:401)
>> at org.apache.bookkeeper.proto.BookieServer.<init>(BookieServer.java:75)
>>  at org.apache.bookkeeper.proto.BookieServer.main(BookieServer.java:294)
>>
>> which makes me believe i'd need to clean out the cookie entry in ZK for
>> this server?
>>
>>
>> Yes, you need to clean up and restart zookeeper too.
>>
>> -Flavio
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Flavio Junqueira <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> By cleaning it up, I meant deleting the log and index files. You must
>>> have passed paths when you started bookies, I was suggesting to wipe them
>>> out.
>>>
>>> I just realized that there are a couple of things I don't understand:
>>>
>>> 1- How many bookies have been affected? Just one or all of them? If it
>>> is just one, then you may need to use the bookie recovery tool to
>>> reconstruct the ledger fragments of the problematic bookie.
>>> 2- Can you clean up all bookies and zookeeper and start it over or there
>>> is data you need to recover?
>>>
>>> -Flavio
>>>
>>> On Apr 5, 2012, at 7:32 PM, John Nagro wrote:
>>>
>>> Flavio -
>>>
>>> The log is from an existing server which crashed and I am trying to
>>> bring it back up. How might i clean things up? What about existing ledgers?
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Flavio Junqueira <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Actually, I have a question about the new logs you sent. Have you tried
>>>> to clean up the state of bookies before rerunning them or these logs
>>>> correspond to a bookie that you're bringing back up and the bookie is
>>>> trying to read its old state? If it is the latter, then I would suggest to
>>>> give it a fresh start.
>>>>
>>>> -Flavio
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:53 PM, John Nagro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Flavio -
>>>>
>>>> I really appreciate your prompt response. Some quick background - we
>>>> use some of the hadoop technologies for storage, coordination, and
>>>> processing. Recently we wanted to add a write-ahead-log to our
>>>> infrastructure so that clients could record "transactions" prior to
>>>> executing them - such as updates going to an API or processing of an event.
>>>> I've written a set of tools that use BK as a generic write-ahead-logger.
>>>> Clients (using zookeeper for coordination) can create named write ahead
>>>> logs with custom chunking (how frequently a new ledger is created - based
>>>> on size/time). Once a ledger has rolled-over (or a client crashes), a
>>>> persister (monitoring ZK) reads that ledger and persists it to S3/HDFS as
>>>> hadoop sequence files where a map-reduce process can reconcile it. The
>>>> ledger is then deleted from BK. This is all done using ZK in a fashion
>>>> where (hopefully) once a client has written any data to the ledger it will
>>>> always end up on S3/HDFS (via BK) even if the client crashes (the persister
>>>> will always know which ledger belongs to which log and which ledgers are
>>>> currently in use).
>>>>
>>>> Does that sound like an appropriate use of BK? It seemed like a natural
>>>> fit as a durable storage solution until something can reliably get it to a
>>>> place where it would ultimately be archived and could be
>>>> reprocessed/reconciled (S3/HDFS).
>>>>
>>>> As for the bug fix you mentioned, this gist shows the logs from the cut
>>>> i made this morning:
>>>>
>>>> https://gist.github.com/aea874d89b28d4cfef31
>>>>
>>>> As you can see, there are still some exceptions and error messages that
>>>> repeat (forever). This is the newest cut available on github, last commit
>>>> is:
>>>>
>>>> commit f694716e289c448ab89cab5fa81ea0946f9d9193
>>>> Author: Flavio Paiva Junqueira <[email protected]>
>>>> Date:   Tue Apr 3 16:02:44 2012 +0000
>>>>
>>>> BOOKKEEPER-207: BenchBookie doesn't run correctly (ivank via fpj)
>>>>
>>>> git-svn-id:
>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/zookeeper/bookkeeper/trunk@130900713f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What are your thoughts? Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> -John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Flavio Junqueira 
>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi John, Let's see if I can help:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 5, 2012, at 3:19 PM, John Nagro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello -
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been hitting Ivan up for advice about a bookkeeper project of
>>>>> mine. I recently ran into another issue and he suggested I inquire here
>>>>> since he is traveling.
>>>>>
>>>>> We've got a pool of 5 BK servers running in EC2. Last night they got
>>>>> into a funky state and/or crashed - unfortunately the log with the 
>>>>> original
>>>>> event got rotated (that has been fixed). I was running a cut of
>>>>> 4.1.0-SNAPSHOT sha 6d56d60831a63fe9520ce156686d0cb1142e44f5 from Wed Mar 
>>>>> 28
>>>>> 21:57:40 2012 +0000 which brought everything up to BOOKKEEPER-195. That
>>>>> build had some bugfixes over 4.0.0 that I was originally running (and a
>>>>> previous version before that).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there anything else you can say about your application, like how
>>>>> fast you're writing and how often you're rolling ledgers maybe? Are you
>>>>> deleting ledgers at all?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> When I restart the servers after the incident this is what the logs
>>>>> looked like:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://gist.github.com/f2b9c8c76943b057546e
>>>>>
>>>>> Which contain a lot of errors - although it appears the servers come
>>>>> up (i have not tried to use the servers yet). Although I don't have the
>>>>> original stack that caused the crash, the logs from recently after the
>>>>> crash contained a lot of this stack:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2012-04-04 21:04:58,833 - INFO
>>>>> [GarbageCollectorThread:GarbageCollectorThread@266] - Deleting
>>>>> entryLogId 4 as it has no active ledgers!
>>>>> 2012-04-04 21:04:58,834 - ERROR [GarbageCollectorThread:EntryLogger@188]
>>>>> - Trying to delete an entryLog file that could not be found: 4.log
>>>>> 2012-04-04 21:04:59,783 - WARN
>>>>> [NIOServerFactory-3181:NIOServerFactory@129] - Exception in server
>>>>> socket loop: /0.0.0.0
>>>>>
>>>>> java.util.NoSuchElementException
>>>>>         at java.util.LinkedList.getFirst(LinkedList.java:109)
>>>>>         at
>>>>> org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.LedgerCacheImpl.grabCleanPage(LedgerCacheImpl.java:458)
>>>>>         at
>>>>> org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.LedgerCacheImpl.putEntryOffset(LedgerCacheImpl.java:165)
>>>>>         at
>>>>> org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.LedgerDescriptorImpl.addEntry(LedgerDescriptorImpl.java:93)
>>>>>         at
>>>>> org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.Bookie.addEntryInternal(Bookie.java:999)
>>>>>         at
>>>>> org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.Bookie.addEntry(Bookie.java:1034)
>>>>>         at
>>>>> org.apache.bookkeeper.proto.BookieServer.processPacket(BookieServer.java:359)
>>>>>         at
>>>>> org.apache.bookkeeper.proto.NIOServerFactory$Cnxn.readRequest(NIOServerFactory.java:315)
>>>>>         at
>>>>> org.apache.bookkeeper.proto.NIOServerFactory$Cnxn.doIO(NIOServerFactory.java:213)
>>>>>
>>>>>         at
>>>>> org.apache.bookkeeper.proto.NIOServerFactory.run(NIOServerFactory.java:124)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This looks like what we found and resolved here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BOOKKEEPER-198
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This morning I upgraded to the most recent cut -
>>>>> sha f694716e289c448ab89cab5fa81ea0946f9d9193 made on Tue Apr 3 16:02:44
>>>>> 2012 +0000 and restarted. That did not seem to correct matters, although
>>>>> the log has slightly different error messages:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://gist.github.com/aea874d89b28d4cfef31
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know whats going on? How i can correct these errors? Are
>>>>> the machines in an okay state to use?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It sounds like we have resolved it in 198, so if you're using a recent
>>>>> cut, you shouldn't observe this problem anymore. But, if it does happen
>>>>> again, it would be great to try to find a way to reproduce it so that we
>>>>> can track the bug... assuming it is a bug.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Flavio
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   flavio
>>>> junqueira
>>>> senior research scientist
>>>>
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> direct +34 93-183-8828
>>>>
>>>> avinguda diagonal 177, 8th floor, barcelona, 08018, es
>>>> phone (408) 349 3300    fax (408) 349 3301
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>   flavio
>>> junqueira
>>> senior research scientist
>>>
>>> [email protected]
>>> direct +34 93-183-8828
>>>
>>> avinguda diagonal 177, 8th floor, barcelona, 08018, es
>>> phone (408) 349 3300    fax (408) 349 3301
>>>
>>>
>>
>>   flavio
>> junqueira
>> senior research scientist
>>
>> [email protected]
>> direct +34 93-183-8828
>>
>> avinguda diagonal 177, 8th floor, barcelona, 08018, es
>> phone (408) 349 3300    fax (408) 349 3301
>>
>>
>
> flavio
> junqueira
> senior research scientist
>
> [email protected]
> direct +34 93-183-8828
>
> avinguda diagonal 177, 8th floor, barcelona, 08018, es
> phone (408) 349 3300    fax (408) 349 3301
>
>

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