Steve Loughran created HADOOP-12697: ---------------------------------------
Summary: IPC retry policies should recognise that SASL auth failures are unrecoverable Key: HADOOP-12697 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12697 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Components: ipc Affects Versions: 2.7.1 Environment: Cluster with kerberos on and client not calling with the right credentials Reporter: Steve Loughran Priority: Minor SLIDER-1050 shows that if you don't have the right kerberos settings, the Yarn client IPC channel blocks retrying to the talk to the RM, retrying repeatedly {noformat} 2016-01-07 02:50:45,111 [main] WARN ipc.Client - Exception encountered while connecting to the server : javax.security.sasl.SaslException: GSS initiate failed [Caused by GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level: Failed to find any Kerberos tgt)] {noformat} SASL exceptions need to be recognised as irreconcilable authentication failures, rather than generic IOEs that might go away if you retry -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)