Sebastien Barrier created HADOOP-10545: ------------------------------------------
Summary: hdfs zkfc NullPointerException Key: HADOOP-10545 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10545 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 2.4.0 Environment: Linux Reporter: Sebastien Barrier Priority: Minor Running hdfs zkfc on a node which is not a Namenode result of NullPointerException. An error message should be displayed telling that zkfc must be run only on a Namenode server and/or to verify configuration parameters. # hdfs zkfc -formatZK Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java:187) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.NNHAServiceTarget.<init>(NNHAServiceTarget.java:57) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.DFSZKFailoverController.create(DFSZKFailoverController.java:128) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.DFSZKFailoverController.main(DFSZKFailoverController.java:172) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)