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Devaraj Das resolved MAPREDUCE-807. ----------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed Fix Version/s: 0.20.1 I just committed this. Thanks, Amar! > Stray user files in mapred.system.dir with permissions other than 777 can > prevent the jobtracker from starting up. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: MAPREDUCE-807 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-807 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Bug > Components: jobtracker > Reporter: Amar Kamat > Assignee: Amar Kamat > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.20.1 > > Attachments: MAPRED-807-v1.1.patch, MAPRED-807-v1.2.patch, > MAPRED-807-v1.3.patch, MAPRED-807-v1.4.patch, MAPRED-807-v1.6.patch, > MAPRED-807-v1.7.patch, MAPREDUCE-807-v1.6-branch-0.20.patch, > MAPREDUCE-807-v1.7-branch-0.20.patch > > > With restart disabled, the jobtracker does a _rm -rf_ of the > mapred.system.dir. If the mapred.system.dir contains user files with > permissions other than 777 then the jobtracker gets stuck in a loop trying to > delete the mapred.system.dir (and each time failing with > AccessControlException). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.