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Grant Ingersoll updated MAHOUT-461: ----------------------------------- Attachment: MAHOUT-461.patch And the patch. I will update the docs when I commit. > DistributedLanczosSolver doesn't check/validate output dir > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAHOUT-461 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-461 > Project: Mahout > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Math > Reporter: Grant Ingersoll > Assignee: Grant Ingersoll > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.4 > > Attachments: MAHOUT-461.patch > > > I ran /mahout svd -Dmapred.input.dir=/tmp/solr-clust-n2/part-out.vec > --tempDir /tmp/solr-clust-n2/svdTemp --rank 200 --numCols 62072 --numRows > 130103 > and got > INFO: Persisting 200 eigenVectors and eigenValues to: null > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not create > a Path from a null string > at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.checkPathArg(Path.java:78) > at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:90) > at > org.apache.mahout.math.hadoop.decomposer.DistributedLanczosSolver.serializeOutput(DistributedLanczosSolver.java:110) > at > org.apache.mahout.math.hadoop.decomposer.DistributedLanczosSolver.run(DistributedLanczosSolver.java:97) > at > org.apache.mahout.math.hadoop.decomposer.DistributedLanczosSolver.run(DistributedLanczosSolver.java:76) > at > org.apache.mahout.math.hadoop.decomposer.DistributedLanczosSolver$DistributedLanczosSolverJob.run(DistributedLanczosSolver.java:166) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79) > at > org.apache.mahout.math.hadoop.decomposer.DistributedLanczosSolver.main(DistributedLanczosSolver.java:172) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at > org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver$ProgramDescription.invoke(ProgramDriver.java:68) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver.driver(ProgramDriver.java:139) > at org.apache.mahout.driver.MahoutDriver.main(MahoutDriver.java:175) > The solver doesn't ask for nor require the output value and it isn't > documented either. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.