Hi, I found similar problems on the web but didn't find a solution for it so I'm asking here.
I have some pig job that has been working fine for couple of months and it started failing. But the same job still works if run as another account. I narrowed it a bit and found that the problematic user account can't even do a simple DUMP. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- grunt> A = LOAD '/user/myuser1/aa' AS (f1, f2); grunt> DESCRIBE A; A: {f1: bytearray,f2: bytearray} grunt> DUMP A; 2011-01-31 15:48:34,141 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.HExecutionEngine - (Name: Store(hdfs://hadoop-name01/tmp/temp811847645/tmp1546738024:org.apache.pig.builtin.BinStorage) - 1-10 Operator Key: 1-10) 2011-01-31 15:48:34,142 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MultiQueryOptimizer - MR plan size before optimization: 1 2011-01-31 15:48:34,142 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MultiQueryOptimizer - MR plan size after optimization: 1 2011-01-31 15:48:34,153 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.JobControlCompiler - mapred.job.reduce.markreset.buffer.percent is not set, set to default 0.3 2011-01-31 15:48:35,562 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.JobControlCompiler - Setting up single store job 2011-01-31 15:48:35,574 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - 1 map-reduce job(s) waiting for submission. 2011-01-31 15:48:35,578 [Thread-23] WARN org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient - Use GenericOptionsParser for parsing the arguments. Applications should implement Tool for the same. 2011-01-31 15:48:36,077 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - 0% complete 2011-01-31 15:48:36,176 [Thread-23] INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat - Total input paths to process : 1 2011-01-31 15:48:36,176 [Thread-23] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.util.MapRedUtil - Total input paths to process : 1 2011-01-31 15:48:37,067 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - HadoopJobId: job_201101260357_3230 2011-01-31 15:48:37,067 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - More information at: http://hadoop-name02:50030/jobdetails.jsp?jobid=job_201101260357_3230 2011-01-31 15:48:41,605 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - 100% complete 2011-01-31 15:48:41,605 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - 1 map reduce job(s) failed! 2011-01-31 15:48:41,607 [main]* ERROR org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - Failed to produce result in: "hdfs://hadoop-namenode01/tmp/temp811847645/tmp1546738024"* 2011-01-31 15:48:41,607 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - Failed! 2011-01-31 15:48:41,619 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR 1066: Unable to open iterator for alias A -------------------------------------------------------------------------- While running the same LOAD, DUMP works fine with another user account. We also confirmed there is no diskspace or quota issue on namenode. Any idea? This is similar to this issue reported here: http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/3inw3wuad4S3zjAz89y5