[MAPREDUCE-4428] A failed job is not available under job history if the job is killed right around the time job is notified as failed

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Component/s: jobhistoryserver, jobtracker
• Assignee: Robert Joseph Evans
• Reporter: Rahul Jain
• Created: 11/Jul/12 18:26
• Updated: 12/Sep/13 04:41

Description

We have observed this issue consistently running hadoop CDH4 version (based upon 2.0 alpha release):

In case our hadoop client code gets a notification for a completed job ( using RunningJob object job, with (job.isComplete() && job.isSuccessful()==false)
the hadoop client code does an unconditional job.killJob() to terminate the job.

With earlier hadoop versions (verified on hadoop 0.20.2 version), we still have full access to job logs afterwards through hadoop console. However, when using MapReduceV2, the failed hadoop job no longer shows up under jobhistory server. Also, the tracking URL of the job still points to the non-existent Application master http port.

Once we removed the call to job.killJob() for failed jobs from our hadoop client code, we were able to access the job in job history with mapreduce V2 as well. Therefore this appears to be a race condition in the job management wrt. job history for failed jobs.

We do have the application master and node manager logs collected for this scenario if that'll help isolate the problem and the fix better.

Issue Links

• is related to: MAPREDUCE-4559 Job logs not accessible through job history server for AM killed due to am.liveness-monitor expiry
• relates to: MAPREDUCE-5418 JobHistoryServer has no information about applications if the MR-AM crashes