[MAPREDUCE-3181] Terasort fails with Kerberos exception on secure cluster

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.0
• Component/s: mrv2
• Assignee: Arun Murthy
• Reporter: Anupam Seth
• Created: 13/Oct/11 21:16
• Updated: 15/Nov/11 00:48
• Resolved: 19/Oct/11 20:29

Description

We are seeing the following Kerberos exception upon trying to run terasort on secure single and multi-node clusters using the latest build from branch 0.23.

java.io.IOException: Can't get JobTracker Kerberos principal for use as renewer
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.security.TokenCache.obtainTokensForNamenodesInternal(TokenCache.java:106)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.security.TokenCache.obtainTokensForNamenodesInternal(TokenCache.java:90)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.security.TokenCache.obtainTokensForNamenodes(TokenCache.java:83)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat.listStatus(FileInputFormat.java:205)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat.getSplits(FileInputFormat.java:269)
at org.apache.hadoop.examples.terasort.TeraInputFormat.getSplits(TeraInputFormat.java:318)
at org.apache.hadoop.examples.terasort.TeraInputFormat.writePartitionFile(TeraInputFormat.java:169)
at org.apache.hadoop.examples.terasort.TeraSort.run(TeraSort.java:306)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:69)
at org.apache.hadoop.examples.terasort.TeraSort.main(TeraSort.java:325)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver$ProgramDescription.invoke(ProgramDriver.java:72)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver.driver(ProgramDriver.java:144)
at org.apache.hadoop.examples.ExampleDriver.main(ExampleDriver.java:68)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:189)

Adding debug output shows that the job configuration is not loading up yarn-site.xml causing the above failure to happen.