[MAPREDUCE-5746] Job diagnostics can implicate wrong task for a failed job

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.10, 2.1.1-beta
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.11, 2.4.0
• Component/s: jobhistoryserver
• Target Version/s: 0.23.11, 2.4.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jason Darrell Lowe
• Reporter: Jason Darrell Lowe
• Created: 07/Feb/14 20:48
• Updated: 10/Apr/14 13:11
• Resolved: 12/Feb/14 16:09

Description

We've seen a number of cases where the history server is showing the wrong task as the reason a job failed. For example, "Task task_1383802699973_515536_m_027135 failed 1 times" when some other task had failed 4 times and was the real reason the job failed.

Issue Links

• is related to: MAPREDUCE-5754 Preserve Job diagnostics in history
• relates to: MAPREDUCE-5317 Stale files left behind for failed jobs