[SPARK-1190] Do not initialize log4j if slf4j log4j backend is not being used

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.1, 1.0.0
• Component/s: Spark Core
• Assignee: Patrick Wendell
• Reporter: Patrick Wendell
• Created: 05/Mar/14 11:09
• Updated: 06/Oct/14 04:29
• Resolved: 08/Mar/14 16:03

Description

I already have a patch here just need to test it and commit. IIRC there were some issues with the maven build.

https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/573
https://github.com/pwendell/incubator-spark/commit/66594e88e5be50fca073a7ef38fa62db4082b3c8

initialization with: java.lang.StackOverflowError
at java.lang.ThreadLocal.access$400(ThreadLocal.java:72)
at java.lang.ThreadLocal$ThreadLocalMap.getEntry(ThreadLocal.java:376)
at java.lang.ThreadLocal$ThreadLocalMap.access$000(ThreadLocal.java:261)
at java.lang.ThreadLocal.get(ThreadLocal.java:146)
at java.lang.StringCoding.deref(StringCoding.java:63)
at java.lang.StringCoding.encode(StringCoding.java:330)
at java.lang.String.getBytes(String.java:916)
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.getBooleanAttributes0(Native Method)
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.getBooleanAttributes(UnixFileSystem.java:242)
at java.io.File.exists(File.java:813)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath$FileLoader.getResource(URLClassPath.java:1080)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath$FileLoader.findResource(URLClassPath.java:1047)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath.findResource(URLClassPath.java:176)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$2.run(URLClassLoader.java:551)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$2.run(URLClassLoader.java:549)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findResource(URLClassLoader.java:548)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResource(ClassLoader.java:1147)
at org.apache.spark.Logging$class.initializeLogging(Logging.scala:109)
at org.apache.spark.Logging$class.initializeIfNecessary(Logging.scala:97)
at org.apache.spark.Logging$class.log(Logging.scala:36)
at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.log(Utils.scala:47)

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SPARK-1067 Default log4j initialization causes errors for those not using log4j
• relates to: SPARK-3782 Direct use of log4j in AkkaUtils interferes with certain logging configurations