Any sage advice out there for a 19.1 balancer that is throwing
NullPtrExceptions?
I don't believe this is an instance of
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As the fs.default.name is set to in the hadoop-site.xml to:
<property>
<name>fs.default.name</name>
<value>hdfs://systemname/</value>
</property>
I also tried setting the fs.default.name in core-site.xml also.
The trace is not too enlightening:
2009-07-17 11:59:29,955 ERROR
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer.run(Balancer.java:
1466)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer.main(Balancer.java:
793)
The exception is thrown during cleanup:
// close the output file
IOUtils.closeStream(out);
try {
fs.delete(BALANCER_ID_PATH, true);
} catch(IOException ignored) {
}
My guess is 'fs' or BALANCER_ID_PATH is NULL. So, we probably never
got started property.
Any other configuration parameters to be aware of, are there any other
suspects?
Thanks
