[ASTERIXDB-1082] Managix issues encountered when creating a single node instance of AsterixDB on AWS

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Later
• Component/s: *DB - AsterixDB, CONF - Configuration
• Assignee: Ian Maxon
• Reporter: Keren Ouaknine
• Created: 27/Aug/15 18:08
• Updated: 14/Sep/15 17:43
• Resolved: 14/Sep/15 17:43

Description

A single node won't run on AWS.
The failure I get is:
INFO: Substitute node joining : aws_single_catching_you_node1
java.lang.NullPointerException
at edu.uci.ics.asterix.hyracks.bootstrap.NCApplicationEntryPoint.updateOnNodeJoin(NCApplicationEntryPoint.java:250)
at edu.uci.ics.asterix.hyracks.bootstrap.NCApplicationEntryPoint.start(NCApplicationEntryPoint.java:94)
at edu.uci.ics.hyracks.control.nc.NodeControllerService.startApplication(NodeControllerService.java:318)
at edu.uci.ics.hyracks.control.nc.NodeControllerService.start(NodeControllerService.java:255)
at edu.uci.ics.hyracks.control.nc.NCDriver.main(NCDriver.java:44)

Additionally a few issues require further investigation:
1. Why is Managix deleting the files under:
/home/ec2-user/managix/clusters/local/working_dir/asterix
It seems part of a cleanup process when an instance fail to be created, but it actually means you have to copy bin and repo (w all the jars files) under asterix manually before every instance creation attempt.
2. How come Managix is ALSO expecting to see bin and repo under a path containing the instance name. Ex:
[ec2-user@ip-172-30-0-174 managix]$ managix create -n aws_single_catching_you -c $MANAGIX_HOME/clusters/local/local.xml
ERROR: /home/ec2-user/managix/asterix/aws_single_catching_you/bin/asterixnc.bat (No such file or directory)
3. Why the call to transfer.sh misses the last parameter and thus need to be added manually??

Issue Links

• is related to: ASTERIXDB-1089 NPE when substitute node joins
• relates to: ASTERIXDB-1089 NPE when substitute node joins