[YARN-4096] App local logs are leaked if log aggregation fails to initialize for the app

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 2.7.2, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Component/s: log-aggregation, nodemanager
• Target Version/s: 2.7.2
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jason Darrell Lowe
• Reporter: Jason Darrell Lowe
• Created: 31/Aug/15 15:32
• Updated: 06/Jan/17 01:49
• Resolved: 08/Sep/15 19:50

Description

If log aggregation fails to initialize for an application then the local logs will never be deleted. This is similar to YARN-3476 except this is a failure when log aggregation tries to initialize the app-specific log aggregator rather than a failure during a log upload.

Issue Links

• relates to: YARN-3476 Nodemanager can fail to delete local logs if log aggregation fails