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Daniel Dai commented on PIG-4967:
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Decompose means instead of invoking j.toString, you can construct the string 
yourself:
{code}
....
sb.append("job name:\t");
try {
  sb.append(j.getJobName());
} catch (NPE) {
}
log.debug(sb);
{code}
I am not sure what's the nature of status=null. If it is truly a bug in Hadoop, 
we shall just warn and continue.

> 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
>            Assignee: 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}



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