Hi Runping, This is a known issue. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-625. Nicholas Sze
----- Original Message ---- > From: Runping Qi <runping...@gmail.com> > To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org > Sent: Wed, May 12, 2010 12:53:13 AM > Subject: Namenode warnings > > Hi, I saw a lot of warnings like the following in namenode > log: 2010-05-11 06:45:07,186 WARN /: > /listPaths/xxxxxxxxxxxxs: java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.ListPathsServlet.doGet(ListPathsServlet.java:153) > at > javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:596) > at > javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:427) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.dispatch(WebApplicationHandler.java:475) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:567) > at > org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1565) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.handle(WebApplicationContext.java:635) > at > org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1517) > at > org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:954) > at > org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:814) > at > org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:981) > at > org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:831) > at > org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:244) > at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:357) I am > using Hadoop 0.19. Anybody knows what might be the > problem? Thanks, Runping at > org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:534)