[IMPALA-1325] Impala shell shows no error when an error message includes "Cancelled"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.0, Impala 2.3.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.5.0
• Component/s: Clients
• Labels: shell usability

Environment

commit 53b73e5b4dd11888ab3c86d5d331a652f51f8092
Author: Skye Wanderman-Milne <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue Sep 30 11:09:21 2014 -0700

    Revert "Free local UDF/UDA allocations"

• Target Version: Impala 2.5.0
• Assignee: Tim Armstrong
• Reporter: casey
• Created: 30/Sep/14 21:46
• Updated: 19/Dec/15 05:49
• Resolved: 19/Dec/15 05:49

Description

I've seen this 3 times. Occasionally when impalad crashes the shell will give not show an error and instead return to the prompt as though nothing happened.

There is no workaround.

The first query below crashed an impalad on a different host but no error message was shown.

[casey@vd0206 comparison]$ impala-shell.sh -d functional
Starting Impala Shell without Kerberos authentication
Connected to localhost.localdomain:21000
Server version: impalad version 2.0.0-cdh4-INTERNAL DEBUG (build 838319414ceac4c6db2327d7efee74475770d00d)
Welcome to the Impala shell. Press TAB twice to see a list of available commands.

Copyright (c) 2012 Cloudera, Inc. All rights reserved.

(Shell build version: Impala Shell v2.0.0-cdh4-INTERNAL (8383194) built on Thu Sep 18 02:13:16 PDT 2014)
Query: use `functional`


[localhost.localdomain:21000] > select COUNT(t1.string_col) AS int_col_1 FROM alltypestiny t1 LEFT JOIN alltypestiny t2 ON t2.month = t1.id AND t2.date_string_col = t1.string_col AND t2.id = t1.month LEFT JOIN alltypesagg t3 ON t3.id = t2.tinyint_col;
Query: select COUNT(t1.string_col) AS int_col_1 FROM alltypestiny t1 LEFT JOIN alltypestiny t2 ON t2.month = t1.id AND t2.date_string_col = t1.string_col AND t2.id = t1.month LEFT JOIN alltypesagg t3 ON t3.id = t2.tinyint_col


[localhost.localdomain:21000] > connect localhost:21001;
Error connecting: TTransportException, Could not connect to localhost:21001
[Not connected] > connect localhost:21002;
Connected to localhost:21002
Server version: impalad version 2.0.0-cdh4-INTERNAL DEBUG (build 838319414ceac4c6db2327d7efee74475770d00d)
Query: use `functional`


[localhost:21002] > connect localhost:21000;
Connected to localhost:21000
Server version: impalad version 2.0.0-cdh4-INTERNAL DEBUG (build 838319414ceac4c6db2327d7efee74475770d00d)
Query: use `functional`
[localhost:21000] > 

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: IMPALA-2094 Impala-shell does not report certain error message