[MAPREDUCE-3054] Unable to kill submitted jobs

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.0
• Component/s: mrv2
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Mahadev Konar
• Reporter: Siddharth Seth
• Created: 21/Sep/11 00:09
• Updated: 12/Oct/13 08:20
• Resolved: 27/Sep/11 20:37

Description

Found by Philip Su

The "mapred job -kill" command
appears to succeed, but listing the jobs again shows that the job supposedly killed is still there.

mapred job -list
Total jobs:2
JobId   State   StartTime       UserName        Queue   Priority        SchedulingInfo
job_1316203984216_0002  PREP    1316204924937   hadoopqa        default NORMAL
job_1316203984216_0001  PREP    1316204031206   hadoopqa        default NORMAL

mapred job -kill job_1316203984216_0002
Killed job job_1316203984216_0002

mapred job -list
Total jobs:2
JobId   State   StartTime       UserName        Queue   Priority        SchedulingInfo
job_1316203984216_0002  PREP    1316204924937   hadoopqa        default NORMAL
job_1316203984216_0001  PREP    1316204031206   hadoopqa        default NORMAL

Issue Links

• breaks: MAPREDUCE-5581 killing jobs which have failed causes log missing