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Hadoop QA commented on MAPREDUCE-1397: -------------------------------------- -1 overall. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12438177/patch-1397.txt against trunk revision 920250. +1 @author. The patch does not contain any @author tags. +1 tests included. The patch appears to include 3 new or modified tests. +1 javadoc. The javadoc tool did not generate any warning messages. +1 javac. The applied patch does not increase the total number of javac compiler warnings. -1 findbugs. The patch appears to introduce 2 new Findbugs warnings. +1 release audit. The applied patch does not increase the total number of release audit warnings. +1 core tests. The patch passed core unit tests. +1 contrib tests. The patch passed contrib unit tests. Test results: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Mapreduce-Patch-h4.grid.sp2.yahoo.net/24/testReport/ Findbugs warnings: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Mapreduce-Patch-h4.grid.sp2.yahoo.net/24/artifact/trunk/build/test/findbugs/newPatchFindbugsWarnings.html Checkstyle results: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Mapreduce-Patch-h4.grid.sp2.yahoo.net/24/artifact/trunk/build/test/checkstyle-errors.html Console output: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Mapreduce-Patch-h4.grid.sp2.yahoo.net/24/console This message is automatically generated. > NullPointerException observed during task failures > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-1397 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1397 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Bug > Components: tasktracker > Affects Versions: 0.20.1 > Reporter: Ramya R > Assignee: Amareshwari Sriramadasu > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.22.0 > > Attachments: patch-1397.txt > > > In an environment where many jobs are killed simultaneously, NPEs are > observed in the TT/JT logs when a task fails. The situation is aggravated > when the taskcontroller.cfg is not configured properly. Below is the > exception obtained: > {noformat} > INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskInProgress: Error from <attempt_ID>: > java.lang.Throwable: Child Error > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskRunner.run(TaskRunner.java:529) > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JvmManager$JvmManagerForType.getDetails(JvmManager.java:329) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JvmManager$JvmManagerForType.reapJvm(JvmManager.java:315) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JvmManager$JvmManagerForType.access$000(JvmManager.java:146) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JvmManager.launchJvm(JvmManager.java:109) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskRunner.run(TaskRunner.java:502) > {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.