[FLINK-22411] Checkpoint failed caused by Mkdirs failed to create file, the path for Flink state.checkpoints.dir in docker-compose can not work from Flink Operations Playground

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Not a Priority
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.12.2
• Component/s: Documentation
• Labels: auto-deprioritized-major auto-deprioritized-minor pull-request-available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Serge
• Created: 22/Apr/21 09:49
• Updated: 23/Jul/22 22:37

Description

docker-compose starting correctly starting docker-compose but after several minutes of work, Apache Flink has to create checkpoints, but there is some problem with access to the file system. next step in Observing Failure & Recovery can not operation.

Exception:

org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.CheckpointException: Could not finalize the pending checkpoint 104. Failure reason: Failure to finalize checkpoint.
    at org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.CheckpointCoordinator.completePendingCheckpoint(CheckpointCoordinator.java:1216) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.12.1.jar:1.12.1]
…..

Caused by: org.apache.flink.util.SerializedThrowable: Mkdirs failed to create file:/tmp/flink-checkpoints-directory/d73c2f87b0d7ea6748a1913ee4b50afe/chk-104
    at org.apache.flink.core.fs.local.LocalFileSystem.create(LocalFileSystem.java:262) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.12.1.jar:1.12.1]

it is work , add a step:
Create the checkpoint and savepoint directories on the Docker host machine (these volumes are mounted by the jobmanager and taskmanager, as specified in docker-compose.yaml):

mkdir -p /tmp/flink-checkpoints-directory
mkdir -p /tmp/flink-savepoints-directory

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #15851