[IMPALA-1646] Impala Will Not Run on Certain Intel CPUs

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.2
• Environment: Observed on CentOS 6.4 (kernel 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64), running in a VMWare virtual machine using VMWare Player 6.0, but not necessarily limited to that environment.
• Assignee: Daniel Hecht
• Reporter: Tom Wheeler
• Created: 08/Jan/15 17:32
• Updated: 20/Dec/15 00:05
• Resolved: 27/Feb/15 17:10

Description

We upgraded the version of Impala used in our Cloudera Data Analyst training course to 2.0, and upon using this new version for the first time, we have observed that the Impala daemons do not start on a majority of the machines found in the training centers where we are teaching classes this week.

The evidence appears to indicate a hardware-specific problem in Impala. This may be related to IMPALA-1399, but I will update this issue to provide more details so we can make that determination.