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Rohini Palaniswamy commented on PIG-4220: ----------------------------------------- Why not just call PigMapReduceCounter.PigReduceCounter.incrementCounter(0);? > MapReduce-based Rank failing with NPE due to missing Counters > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-4220 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-4220 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Koji Noguchi > Attachments: pig-4220-v01.txt > > > User reported his pig job with Rank was failing at > {noformat} > Pig Stack Trace > --------------- > ERROR 2043: Unexpected error during execution. > org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 2043: Unexpected > error during execution. > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.launchPlan(PigServer.java:1296) > at > org.apache.pig.PigServer.executeCompiledLogicalPlan(PigServer.java:1270) > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.execute(PigServer.java:1260) > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.executeBatch(PigServer.java:354) > at > org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.executeBatch(GruntParser.java:138) > at > org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:200) > at > org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:171) > at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt.exec(Grunt.java:84) > at org.apache.pig.Main.run(Main.java:480) > at org.apache.pig.Main.main(Main.java:157) > Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error to read counters into Rank > operation counterSize 277 > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.JobControlCompiler.saveCounters(JobControlCompiler.java:384) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.JobControlCompiler.updateMROpPlan(JobControlCompiler.java:330) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher.launchPig(MapReduceLauncher.java:385) > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.launchPlan(PigServer.java:1285) > ... 9 more > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.JobControlCompiler.saveCounters(JobControlCompiler.java:375) > ... 12 more > {noformat} > (this is different from PIG:3985 NPE) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)