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Allen Wittenauer resolved MAPREDUCE-1724. ----------------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed Stale? Probably? Hopefully. > JobTracker balks at empty String for locations > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-1724 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1724 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Bug > Components: jobtracker > Affects Versions: 0.20.1 > Environment: CDH 2 hadoop-0.20.1+169.68 > Reporter: Craig Macdonald > Priority: Minor > > If a split has locations which are "" (empty String), then the JobTracker > will get upset during initialization: > 2010-04-22 19:09:20,395 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker: Job > initialization failed: > java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 0 > at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:687) > at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.normalizeHostName(NetUtils.java:420) > at > org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.normalizeHostNames(NetUtils.java:443) > at > org.apache.hadoop.net.CachedDNSToSwitchMapping.resolve(CachedDNSToSwitchMapping.java:42) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.resolveAndAddToTopology(JobTracker.java:2411) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.createCache(JobInProgress.java:360) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.initTasks(JobInProgress.java:462) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.initJob(JobTracker.java:3183) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.EagerTaskInitializationListener$InitJob.run(EagerTaskInitializationListener.java:79) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:885) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:907) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637) > Two key points: > * This is different from Hadoop 0.18 > * CombineFileSplit has a constructor where String[] location is not > specified, and hence the location array is populated with empty Strings. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)