[MAPREDUCE-4160] some mrv1 ant tests fail with timeout - due to 4156

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.3, 2.0.2-alpha
• Component/s: test
• Target Version/s: 0.23.3
• Assignee: Thomas Graves
• Reporter: Thomas Graves
• Created: 17/Apr/12 15:25
• Updated: 11/Oct/12 17:48
• Resolved: 17/Apr/12 19:25

Description

Looks like the old mrv1 history server is getting null error when trying to parse the a null for the TaskFinishedEvent successfulAttemptId which was added in jira 4156. This is causing the ant tests to take like 9 hours to run.

[junit] java.io.IOException: java.lang.NullPointerException: null of string in field successfulAttemptId of org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.TaskFinished of union in field event of org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.Event
[junit] at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.npe(GenericDatumWriter.java:92)
[junit] at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:86)
[junit] at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:57)
[junit] at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.EventWriter.write(EventWriter.java:66)
[junit] at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.JobHistory$MetaInfo.writeEvent(JobHistory.java:512)
[junit] at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.JobHistory.logEvent(JobHistory.java:345)
[junit] at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.completedTask(JobInProgress.java:2717)
[junit] at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.updateTaskStatus(JobInProgress.java:1221)