Github user staple commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1592#issuecomment-54703009 Sorry for the delay. I wrote a simple test case in pyspark to trigger the kryo NPEs I've started seeing, that doesn't require my patch. I tested against master at ba5bcaddecd54811d45c5fc79a013b3857d4c633. from pyspark.sql import Row, SQLContext OneField = Row('f1') rdd = sc.parallelize( [ OneField( ['x'] ) ] ) sqlCtx = SQLContext(sc) srdd = sqlCtx.inferSchema(rdd) srdd._jschema_rdd.collect() The kryo NPE is coming from the TaskResultGetter: 14/09/05 21:59:47 ERROR TaskResultGetter: Exception while getting task result com.esotericsoftware.kryo.KryoException: java.lang.NullPointerException Serialization trace: underlying (scala.collection.convert.Wrappers$JListWrapper) values (org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.GenericRow) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer$ObjectField.read(FieldSerializer.java:626) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer.read(FieldSerializer.java:221) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.readClassAndObject(Kryo.java:729) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.DefaultArraySerializers$ObjectArraySerializer.read(DefaultArraySerializers.java:338) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.DefaultArraySerializers$ObjectArraySerializer.read(DefaultArraySerializers.java:293) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.readObject(Kryo.java:648) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer$ObjectField.read(FieldSerializer.java:605) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer.read(FieldSerializer.java:221) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.readClassAndObject(Kryo.java:729) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.DefaultArraySerializers$ObjectArraySerializer.read(DefaultArraySerializers.java:338) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.DefaultArraySerializers$ObjectArraySerializer.read(DefaultArraySerializers.java:293) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.readClassAndObject(Kryo.java:729) at org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializerInstance.deserialize(KryoSerializer.scala:162) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DirectTaskResult.value(TaskResult.scala:79) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.TaskSetManager.handleSuccessfulTask(TaskSetManager.scala:514) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.TaskSchedulerImpl.handleSuccessfulTask(TaskSchedulerImpl.scala:355) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.TaskResultGetter$$anon$2$$anonfun$run$1.apply$mcV$sp(TaskResultGetter.scala:68) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.TaskResultGetter$$anon$2$$anonfun$run$1.apply(TaskResultGetter.scala:47) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.TaskResultGetter$$anon$2$$anonfun$run$1.apply(TaskResultGetter.scala:47) at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.logUncaughtExceptions(Utils.scala:1276) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.TaskResultGetter$$anon$2.run(TaskResultGetter.scala:46) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1146) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:701) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at scala.collection.convert.Wrappers$MutableBufferWrapper.add(Wrappers.scala:80) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.CollectionSerializer.read(CollectionSerializer.java:109) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.CollectionSerializer.read(CollectionSerializer.java:18) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.readObject(Kryo.java:648) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer$ObjectField.read(FieldSerializer.java:605) ... 23 more @davies, do you have any insight as to the cause?
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