DFs copyFromLocal fails with NullPointerException for a single file -------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-612 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-612 Project: Hadoop Issue Type: Bug Components: dfs Affects Versions: 0.7.1 Reporter: Sanjay Dahiya Priority: Blocker DFS copyFromLocal fails with NullPointerException when copying a single file to DFS. Copying a directory works. public File getFile(String dirsProp, String path) throws IOException { String[] dirs = getStrings(dirsProp); <===== returns null for a single file int hashCode = path.hashCode(); for (int i = 0; i < dirs.length; i++) { // try each local dir <==== Throws NullPointerException int index = (hashCode+i & Integer.MAX_VALUE) % dirs.length; File file = new File(dirs[index], path); File dir = file.getParentFile(); if (dir.exists() || dir.mkdirs()) { return file; } } throw new IOException("No valid local directories in property: "+dirsProp); } Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getFile(Configuration.java:397) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.newBackupFile(DFSClient.java:913) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.<init>(DFSClient.java:903) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient.create(DFSClient.java:276) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DistributedFileSystem.createRaw(DistributedFileSystem.java:104) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream$Summer.<init>(FSDataOutputStream.java:56) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream$Summer.<init>(FSDataOutputStream.java:45) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream.<init>(FSDataOutputStream.java:146) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.create(FileSystem.java:271) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.create(FileSystem.java:178) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.copy(FileUtil.java:77) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DistributedFileSystem.copyFromLocalFile(DistributedFileSystem.java:186) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSShell.copyFromLocal(DFSShell.java:45) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSShell.run(DFSShell.java:516) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolBase.doMain(ToolBase.java:187) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSShell.main(DFSShell.java:570) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira