[BEAM-11191] clearGlobalState() method failing on Flink runner 1.10 and 1.11

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P1
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.25.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.26.0
• Component/s: runner-flink
• Assignee: Jan Lukavský
• Reporter: Tobias Kaymak
• Created: 04/Nov/20 14:00
• Updated: 15/May/21 17:59
• Resolved: 15/May/21 17:59

Description

When running our Kafka-To-BigQuery pipeline with the Flink 1.11.2 or 1.10.2 Docker image,
the following exception is visible for the failing job on the job manager for Beam 2.25.0:

2020-11-04 09:27:14
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to cleanup global state.
at org.apache.beam.runners.flink.translation.wrappers.streaming.state.FlinkStateInternals.clearGlobalState(FlinkStateInternals.java:150)
at org.apache.beam.runners.flink.translation.wrappers.streaming.DoFnOperator.maybeEmitWatermark(DoFnOperator.java:791)
at org.apache.beam.runners.flink.translation.wrappers.streaming.DoFnOperator.processWatermark1(DoFnOperator.java:741)
at org.apache.beam.runners.flink.translation.wrappers.streaming.DoFnOperator.processWatermark(DoFnOperator.java:713)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OneInputStreamTask$StreamTaskNetworkOutput.emitWatermark(OneInputStreamTask.java:167)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.streamstatus.StatusWatermarkValve.findAndOutputNewMinWatermarkAcrossAlignedChannels(StatusWatermarkValve.java:179)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.streamstatus.StatusWatermarkValve.inputWatermark(StatusWatermarkValve.java:101)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.io.StreamTaskNetworkInput.processElement(StreamTaskNetworkInput.java:180)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.io.StreamTaskNetworkInput.emitNext(StreamTaskNetworkInput.java:153)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.io.StreamOneInputProcessor.processInput(StreamOneInputProcessor.java:67)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.processInput(StreamTask.java:351)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.mailbox.MailboxProcessor.runMailboxStep(MailboxProcessor.java:191)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.mailbox.MailboxProcessor.runMailboxLoop(MailboxProcessor.java:181)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.runMailboxLoop(StreamTask.java:566)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:536)
at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.doRun(Task.java:721)
at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:546)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to org.apache.flink.runtime.state.VoidNamespace
at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.VoidNamespaceSerializer.serialize(VoidNamespaceSerializer.java:32)
at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBKeySerializationUtils.writeNameSpace(RocksDBKeySerializationUtils.java:77)
at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBKeyedStateBackend.getKeys(RocksDBKeyedStateBackend.java:291)
at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.AbstractKeyedStateBackend.applyToAllKeys(AbstractKeyedStateBackend.java:242)
at org.apache.beam.runners.flink.translation.wrappers.streaming.state.FlinkStateInternals.clearGlobalState(FlinkStateInternals.java:141)
... 17 more

This is from the task manager's logs:

2020-11-04 08:46:31,250 WARN org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task [] - BigQueryIO.Write/BatchLoads/JobIdCreationRoot_LOAD/Read(CreateSource)/ParDo(BoundedSourceAsSDFWrapper)/ParMultiDo(BoundedSourceAsSDFWrapper)/ProcessKeyedElements/Splittable
ueryIO.Write/BatchLoads/CreateJobId_LOAD/ParMultiDo(Anonymous) -> BigQueryIO.Write/BatchLoads/JobIdSideInput_LOAD/Combine.GloballyAsSingletonView/Combine.globally(Singleton)/WithKeys/AddKeys/Map/ParMultiDo(Anonymous) -> ToKeyedWorkItem (1/1) (bebac6c581d1b8ece88007ec0
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to cleanup global state.
at org.apache.beam.runners.flink.translation.wrappers.streaming.state.FlinkStateInternals.clearGlobalState(FlinkStateInternals.java:150) ~[blob_p-656af447c7120652ba6a8f48516776effc33dc07-8df5e6b00c52050981a9af655c97d0c9:?]
at org.apache.beam.runners.flink.translation.wrappers.streaming.DoFnOperator.maybeEmitWatermark(DoFnOperator.java:791) ~[blob_p-656af447c7120652ba6a8f48516776effc33dc07-8df5e6b00c52050981a9af655c97d0c9:?]
at org.apache.beam.runners.flink.translation.wrappers.streaming.DoFnOperator.processWatermark1(DoFnOperator.java:741) ~[blob_p-656af447c7120652ba6a8f48516776effc33dc07-8df5e6b00c52050981a9af655c97d0c9:?]
at org.apache.beam.runners.flink.translation.wrappers.streaming.DoFnOperator.processWatermark(DoFnOperator.java:713) ~[blob_p-656af447c7120652ba6a8f48516776effc33dc07-8df5e6b00c52050981a9af655c97d0c9:?]
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OneInputStreamTask$StreamTaskNetworkOutput.emitWatermark(OneInputStreamTask.java:167) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.streamstatus.StatusWatermarkValve.findAndOutputNewMinWatermarkAcrossAlignedChannels(StatusWatermarkValve.java:179) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.streamstatus.StatusWatermarkValve.inputWatermark(StatusWatermarkValve.java:101) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.io.StreamTaskNetworkInput.processElement(StreamTaskNetworkInput.java:180) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.io.StreamTaskNetworkInput.emitNext(StreamTaskNetworkInput.java:153) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.io.StreamOneInputProcessor.processInput(StreamOneInputProcessor.java:67) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.processInput(StreamTask.java:351) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.mailbox.MailboxProcessor.runMailboxStep(MailboxProcessor.java:191) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.mailbox.MailboxProcessor.runMailboxLoop(MailboxProcessor.java:181) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.runMailboxLoop(StreamTask.java:566) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:536) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.doRun(Task.java:721) [flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:546) [flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:1.8.0_265]
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to org.apache.flink.runtime.state.VoidNamespace
at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.VoidNamespaceSerializer.serialize(VoidNamespaceSerializer.java:32) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBKeySerializationUtils.writeNameSpace(RocksDBKeySerializationUtils.java:77) ~[flink-statebackend-rocksdb_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBKeyedStateBackend.getKeys(RocksDBKeyedStateBackend.java:291) ~[flink-statebackend-rocksdb_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.AbstractKeyedStateBackend.applyToAllKeys(AbstractKeyedStateBackend.java:242) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.2.jar:1.11.2]
at org.apache.beam.runners.flink.translation.wrappers.streaming.state.FlinkStateInternals.clearGlobalState(FlinkStateInternals.java:141) ~[blob_p-656af447c7120652ba6a8f48516776effc33dc07-8df5e6b00c52050981a9af655c97d0c9:?]
... 17 more

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13269