Github user eastcirclek commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1945#issuecomment-218727955 @mxm Yes, I tested it by simply assigning a non-existent directory to taskmanager.tmp.dirs in $FLINK_CONF_DIR/flink-conf.yaml which is read and parsed by GlobalConfiguration.loadConfiguration(). I got the following error messages: ~/flink/flink-dist/target/flink-1.1-SNAPSHOT-bin/flink-1.1-SNAPSHOT/bin$ start-scala-shell.sh local Starting Flink Shell: Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Temporary file directory /tmp/east does not exist. at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.TaskManager$$anonfun$checkTempDirs$1.apply(TaskManager.scala:2162) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.TaskManager$$anonfun$checkTempDirs$1.apply(TaskManager.scala:2157) at scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:33) at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayOps$ofRef.foreach(ArrayOps.scala:108) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.TaskManager$.checkTempDirs(TaskManager.scala:2157) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.TaskManager$.startTaskManagerComponentsAndActor(TaskManager.scala:1752) at org.apache.flink.runtime.minicluster.LocalFlinkMiniCluster.startTaskManager(LocalFlinkMiniCluster.scala:142) at org.apache.flink.runtime.minicluster.FlinkMiniCluster$$anonfun$3.apply(FlinkMiniCluster.scala:319) at org.apache.flink.runtime.minicluster.FlinkMiniCluster$$anonfun$3.apply(FlinkMiniCluster.scala:312) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244) at scala.collection.immutable.Range.foreach(Range.scala:141) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:244) at scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.map(Traversable.scala:105) at org.apache.flink.runtime.minicluster.FlinkMiniCluster.start(FlinkMiniCluster.scala:312) at org.apache.flink.runtime.minicluster.FlinkMiniCluster.start(FlinkMiniCluster.scala:269) at org.apache.flink.api.scala.FlinkShell$.fetchConnectionInfo(FlinkShell.scala:148) at org.apache.flink.api.scala.FlinkShell$.liftedTree1$1(FlinkShell.scala:187) at org.apache.flink.api.scala.FlinkShell$.startShell(FlinkShell.scala:186) at org.apache.flink.api.scala.FlinkShell$.main(FlinkShell.scala:134) at org.apache.flink.api.scala.FlinkShell.main(FlinkShell.scala)
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