[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6021?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13913165#comment-13913165 ]
Jason Lowe commented on HDFS-6021: ---------------------------------- Stacktrace: {noformat} 2014-02-26 17:03:11,755 FATAL [main] namenode.NameNode (NameNode.java:main(1351)) - Exception in namenode join java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImageFormatProtobuf$Loader.loadInternal(FSImageFormatProtobuf.java:227) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImageFormatProtobuf$Loader.load(FSImageFormatProtobuf.java:169) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImageFormat$LoaderDelegator.load(FSImageFormat.java:225) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.loadFSImage(FSImage.java:802) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.loadFSImage(FSImage.java:792) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.loadFSImageFile(FSImage.java:624) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.loadFSImage(FSImage.java:593) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.doUpgrade(FSImage.java:331) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.recoverTransitionRead(FSImage.java:251) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.loadFSImage(FSNamesystem.java:882) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.loadFromDisk(FSNamesystem.java:641) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.loadNamesystem(NameNode.java:435) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:491) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:647) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:632) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1280) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1346) {noformat} > NPE in FSImageFormatProtobuf upgrading from layout -52 to -53 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-6021 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6021 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 3.0.0 > Reporter: Jason Lowe > > While updating my trunk instance the namenode refused to startup because the > layout version needed to be upgraded. When attempting the upgrade ran into > an NPE in FSImageFormatProtobuf. Full stacktrace to follow. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)