[MAPREDUCE-3706] HTTP Circular redirect error on the job attempts page

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.2
• Component/s: mrv2
• Target Version/s: 0.23.2
• Assignee: Robert Joseph Evans Assign to me
• Reporter: Thomas Graves
• Created: 21/Jan/12 04:01
• Updated: 04/Mar/16 05:51
• Resolved: 29/Feb/12 22:17

Description

submitted job and tried to go to following url:

http://rmhost.domain.com:8088/proxy/application_1326992308313_0004/mapreduce/attempts/job_1326992308313_4_4/m/NEW

This resulted in the following HTTP ERROR:

HTTP ERROR 500

Problem accessing /proxy/application_1326992308313_0004/mapreduce/attempts/job_1326992308313_4_4/m/NEW. Reason:

Circular redirect to 'http://amhost.domain.com:44869/mapreduce/attempts/job_1326992308313_4_4/m/NEW'

Caused by:

org.apache.commons.httpclient.CircularRedirectException: Circular redirect to 'http://amhost.domain.com:44869/mapreduce/attempts/job_1326992308313_4_4/m/NEW'
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.processRedirectResponse(HttpMethodDirector.java:638)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMethodDirector.java:179)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:397)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:323)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.webproxy.WebAppProxyServlet.proxyLink(WebAppProxyServlet.java:148) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.webproxy.WebAppProxyServlet.doGet(WebAppProxyServlet.java:269)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:511)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1221) at com.google.inject.servlet.FilterChainInvocation.doFilter(FilterChainInvocation.java:66)
at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.doFilter(ServletContainer.java:900) at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.doFilter(ServletContainer.java:834)
at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.doFilter(ServletContainer.java:795)

Note that if you first go to the proxy at: http://rmhost.domain.com:8088/proxy/application_1326992308313_0004/ and then click the links to get here you don't get the error.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: MAPREDUCE-4045 RM UI -> Applications -> Application Master Link -> Job Link -> New Maps/Reduces leads to circular redirect error