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Arun C Murthy commented on MAPREDUCE-4637: ------------------------------------------ Another option is to validate that a kill is only sent to RUNNING task-attempts. That seems a better option, no? > Killing an unassigned task attempt causes the job to fail > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-4637 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-4637 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Bug > Components: mrv2 > Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha > Reporter: Tom White > Assignee: Mayank Bansal > Attachments: MAPREDUCE-4637-trunk.patch, MAPREDUCE-4637-trunk-v2.patch > > > Attempting to kill a task attempt that has been scheduled but is not running > causes an invalid state transition and the AM to stop with an error. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira