Hi,
Sometimes I get this error when I submit spark job. Its not like every time but when it comes up SparkContext doesn't get created. 16/12/08 08:02:18 INFO [akka.event.slf4j.Slf4jLogger] 80==> Slf4jLogger started error while starting up loggers akka.ConfigurationException: Logger specified in config can't be loaded [akka.event.slf4j.Slf4jLogger] due to [akka.event.Logging$LoggerInitializationException: Logger log1-Slf4jLogger did not respond with LoggerInitialized, sent instead [TIMEOUT]] at akka.event.LoggingBus$$anonfun$4$$anonfun$apply$1.applyOrElse(Logging.scala:116) at akka.event.LoggingBus$$anonfun$4$$anonfun$apply$1.applyOrElse(Logging.scala:115) at scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction.apply(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:33) at scala.util.Failure$$anonfun$recover$1.apply(Try.scala:185) at scala.util.Try$.apply(Try.scala:161) at scala.util.Failure.recover(Try.scala:185) at akka.event.LoggingBus$$anonfun$4.apply(Logging.scala:115) at akka.event.LoggingBus$$anonfun$4.apply(Logging.scala:110) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter$$anonfun$map$2.apply(TraversableLike.scala:722) at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:727) at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:1157) at scala.collection.IterableLike$class.foreach(IterableLike.scala:72) at scala.collection.AbstractIterable.foreach(Iterable.scala:54) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter.map(TraversableLike.scala:721) at akka.event.LoggingBus$class.startDefaultLoggers(Logging.scala:110) at akka.event.EventStream.startDefaultLoggers(EventStream.scala:26) at akka.actor.LocalActorRefProvider.init(ActorRefProvider.scala:623) at akka.remote.RemoteActorRefProvider.init(RemoteActorRefProvider.scala:157) at akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl.liftedTree2$1(ActorSystem.scala:620) at akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl._start$lzycompute(ActorSystem.scala:617) at akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl._start(ActorSystem.scala:617) at akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl.start(ActorSystem.scala:634) at akka.actor.ActorSystem$.apply(ActorSystem.scala:142) at akka.actor.ActorSystem$.apply(ActorSystem.scala:119) at org.apache.spark.util.AkkaUtils$.org$apache$spark$util$AkkaUtils$$doCreateActorSystem(AkkaUtils.scala:121) at org.apache.spark.util.AkkaUtils$$anonfun$1.apply(AkkaUtils.scala:53) at org.apache.spark.util.AkkaUtils$$anonfun$1.apply(AkkaUtils.scala:52) at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$$anonfun$startServiceOnPort$1.apply$mcVI$sp(Utils.scala:1988) at scala.collection.immutable.Range.foreach$mVc$sp(Range.scala:141) at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.startServiceOnPort(Utils.scala:1979) at org.apache.spark.util.AkkaUtils$.createActorSystem(AkkaUtils.scala:55) at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.create(SparkEnv.scala:266) at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.createDriverEnv(SparkEnv.scala:193) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.createSparkEnv(SparkContext.scala:288) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:457) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext$.getOrCreate(SparkContext.scala:2304) Thanks Adnan Ahmed