[MAPREDUCE-699] Several streaming test cases seem to be failing

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Component/s: test
• Tags: ygridqa
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jothi Padmanabhan
• Created: 03/Jul/09 03:33
• Updated: 07/May/10 05:22
• Resolved: 07/May/10 05:22

Description

ant test is failing several streaming tests with the following error

Error Message

java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.commons.cli.GnuParser.flatten(GnuParser.java:110) at org.apache.commons.cli.Parser.parse(Parser.java:143) at org.apache.hadoop.util.GenericOptionsParser.parseGeneralOptions(GenericOptionsParser.java:374) at org.apache.hadoop.util.GenericOptionsParser.<init>(GenericOptionsParser.java:153) at org.apache.hadoop.util.GenericOptionsParser.<init>(GenericOptionsParser.java:138) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.instantiateDataNode(DataNode.java:1314) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster.startDataNodes(MiniDFSCluster.java:414) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster.<init>(MiniDFSCluster.java:278) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster.<init>(MiniDFSCluster.java:119) at org.apache.hadoop.streaming.TestMultipleCachefiles.testMultipleCachefiles(TestMultipleCachefiles.java:68) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:168) at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:134) at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:110) at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:128) at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:113) at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:124) at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:232) at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:227) at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit38ClassRunner.run(JUnit38ClassRunner.java:79) at junit.framework.JUnit4TestAdapter.run(JUnit4TestAdapter.java:39) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.run(JUnitTestRunner.java:420) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.launch(JUnitTestRunner.java:911) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.main(JUnitTestRunner.java:768)

Stacktrace

junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.commons.cli.GnuParser.flatten(GnuParser.java:110)
at org.apache.commons.cli.Parser.parse(Parser.java:143)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.GenericOptionsParser.parseGeneralOptions(GenericOptionsParser.java:374)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.GenericOptionsParser.<init>(GenericOptionsParser.java:153)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.GenericOptionsParser.<init>(GenericOptionsParser.java:138)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.instantiateDataNode(DataNode.java:1314)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster.startDataNodes(MiniDFSCluster.java:414)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster.<init>(MiniDFSCluster.java:278)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster.<init>(MiniDFSCluster.java:119)
at org.apache.hadoop.streaming.TestMultipleCachefiles.testMultipleCachefiles(TestMultipleCachefiles.java:68)

at org.apache.hadoop.streaming.TestMultipleCachefiles.failTrace(TestMultipleCachefiles.java:141)
at org.apache.hadoop.streaming.TestMultipleCachefiles.testMultipleCachefiles(TestMultipleCachefiles.java:133)

The following are links to two such failures
http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Mapreduce-Patch-vesta.apache.org/337/testReport/
http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Mapreduce-Patch-vesta.apache.org/336/testReport/

Issue Links

• duplicates: MAPREDUCE-891 Streaming tests fail with NPE in MiniDFSCluster