Ufuk Celebi created FLINK-5600: ---------------------------------- Summary: Improve error message when triggering savepoint without specified directory Key: FLINK-5600 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5600 Project: Flink Issue Type: Improvement Components: State Backends, Checkpointing Reporter: Ufuk Celebi Priority: Minor
When triggering a savepoint w/o specifying a custom target directory or having configured a default directory, we get a quite long stack trace: {code} java.lang.Exception: Failed to trigger savepoint at org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.JobManager$$anonfun$handleMessage$1.applyOrElse(JobManager.scala:801) at scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction$mcVL$sp.apply$mcVL$sp(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:33) at scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction$mcVL$sp.apply(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:33) at scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction$mcVL$sp.apply(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:25) at org.apache.flink.runtime.LeaderSessionMessageFilter$$anonfun$receive$1.applyOrElse(LeaderSessionMessageFilter.scala:36) at scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction$mcVL$sp.apply$mcVL$sp(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:33) at scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction$mcVL$sp.apply(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:33) at scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction$mcVL$sp.apply(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:25) at org.apache.flink.runtime.LogMessages$$anon$1.apply(LogMessages.scala:33) at org.apache.flink.runtime.LogMessages$$anon$1.apply(LogMessages.scala:28) at scala.PartialFunction$class.applyOrElse(PartialFunction.scala:118) at org.apache.flink.runtime.LogMessages$$anon$1.applyOrElse(LogMessages.scala:28) at akka.actor.Actor$class.aroundReceive(Actor.scala:467) at org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.JobManager.aroundReceive(JobManager.scala:118) at akka.actor.ActorCell.receiveMessage(ActorCell.scala:516) at akka.actor.ActorCell.invoke(ActorCell.scala:487) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processMailbox(Mailbox.scala:238) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:220) at akka.dispatch.ForkJoinExecutorConfigurator$AkkaForkJoinTask.exec(AbstractDispatcher.scala:397) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1339) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No savepoint directory configured. You can either specify a directory when triggering this savepoint or configure a cluster-wide default via key 'state.savepoints.dir'. at org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.JobManager$$anonfun$handleMessage$1.applyOrElse(JobManager.scala:764) ... 22 more {code} This is already quite good, because the Exception says what can be done to work around this problem, but we can make it even better by handling this error in the client and printing a more explicit message. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)