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Daniel Dai commented on PIG-4967: --------------------------------- Sure, you can decompose ControlledJob and do null check on individual variable. Would you like to give a try? > NPE in PigJobControl.run() when job status is null > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-4967 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-4967 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Xiang Li > Priority: Critical > > {code} > [JobControl] ERROR org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop23.PigJobControl - Error > while trying to run jobs. > java.lang.NullPointerException > at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.getJobName(Job.java:426) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.jobcontrol.ControlledJob.toString(ControlledJob.java:93) > at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2982) > at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:131) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop23.PigJobControl.run(PigJobControl.java:182) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher$1.run(MapReduceLauncher.java:276) > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)