[YARN-3905] Application History Server UI NPEs when accessing apps run after RM restart

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.0, 2.8.0, 2.7.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 2.7.2, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Component/s: timelineserver
• Target Version/s: 2.7.2
• Assignee: Eric Payne
• Reporter: Eric Payne
• Created: 09/Jul/15 21:12
• Updated: 14/Oct/19 15:38
• Resolved: 17/Jul/15 17:51

Description

From the Application History URL (http://RmHostName:8188/applicationhistory), clicking on the application ID of an app that was run after the RM daemon has been restarted results in a 500 error:

Sorry, got error 500
Please consult RFC 2616 for meanings of the error code.

The stack trace is as follows:

2015-07-09 20:13:15,584 [2068024519@qtp-769046918-3] INFO applicationhistoryservice.FileSystemApplicationHistoryStore: Completed reading history information of all application attempts of application application_1436472584878_0001
2015-07-09 20:13:15,591 [2068024519@qtp-769046918-3] ERROR webapp.AppBlock: Failed to read the AM container of the application attempt appattempt_1436472584878_0001_000001.
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.applicationhistoryservice.ApplicationHistoryManagerImpl.convertToContainerReport(ApplicationHistoryManagerImpl.java:206)
        at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.applicationhistoryservice.ApplicationHistoryManagerImpl.getContainer(ApplicationHistoryManagerImpl.java:199)
        at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.applicationhistoryservice.ApplicationHistoryClientService.getContainerReport(ApplicationHistoryClientService.java:205)
        at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.webapp.AppBlock$3.run(AppBlock.java:272)
        at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.webapp.AppBlock$3.run(AppBlock.java:267)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1666)
        at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.webapp.AppBlock.generateApplicationTable(AppBlock.java:266)
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