[BIGTOP-1034] Custom user's home directory's creation fails in init-hdfs.sh

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0
• Component/s: debian, rpm
• Labels: hackathon-7-2013
• Assignee: Mark Grover
• Reporter: Mark Grover
• Created: 24/Jul/13 16:20
• Updated: 04/Nov/13 21:24
• Resolved: 27/Jul/13 23:25

Description

The init-hdfs.sh script has set -ex at the top for a good reason. However, the script itself when creating a custom user's home directory on HDFS, does a ls to see if the directory already exists: https://github.com/apache/bigtop/blob/master/bigtop-packages/src/common/hadoop/init-hdfs.sh#L91

This fails if the directory doesn't exist which makes the entire script fail. This check could be enclosed so it doesn't make the script fail.