[HADOOP-2855] [HOD] HOD fails to allocate a cluster if the tarball specified is a relative path

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.16.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.17.0
• Component/s: contrib/hod
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Changes were made to handle relative paths correctly for important HOD options such as the cluster directory, tarball option, and script file.
• Assignee: Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
• Reporter: Hemanth Yamijala
• Created: 20/Feb/08 08:40
• Updated: 21/May/08 20:05
• Resolved: 01/Apr/08 06:35

Description

Run hod -t my-tar.tar.gz -o "allocate hod-cluster 3". Ringmaster fails to come up. The log shows the exception as an invalid URL for the tarball file. Basically HOD should translate the relative path to an absolute path and send it to the ringmaster.