Concerning the failed builds in the hadoop2.0.0-alpha profile I see a lot of
07:47:57,927 ERROR akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl - Uncaught fatal error from thread [flink-akka.remote.default-remote-dispatcher-7] shutting down ActorSystem [flink] java.lang.VerifyError: (class: org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioWorkerPool, method: createWorker signature: (Ljava/util/concurrent/Executor;)Lorg/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/AbstractNioWorker;) Wrong return type in function at akka.remote.transport.netty.NettyTransport.<init>(NettyTransport.scala:283) at akka.remote.transport.netty.NettyTransport.<init>(NettyTransport.scala:240) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) at akka.actor.ReflectiveDynamicAccess$$anonfun$createInstanceFor$2.apply(DynamicAccess.scala:78) at scala.util.Try$.apply(Try.scala:161) at akka.actor.ReflectiveDynamicAccess.createInstanceFor(DynamicAccess.scala:73) at akka.actor.ReflectiveDynamicAccess$$anonfun$createInstanceFor$3.apply(DynamicAccess.scala:84) at akka.actor.ReflectiveDynamicAccess$$anonfun$createInstanceFor$3.apply(DynamicAccess.scala:84) at scala.util.Success.flatMap(Try.scala:200) at akka.actor.ReflectiveDynamicAccess.createInstanceFor(DynamicAccess.scala:84) at akka.remote.EndpointManager$$anonfun$9.apply(Remoting.scala:692) at akka.remote.EndpointManager$$anonfun$9.apply(Remoting.scala:684) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter$$anonfun$map$2.apply(TraversableLike.scala:722) at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:727) at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:1157) at scala.collection.IterableLike$class.foreach(IterableLike.scala:72) at scala.collection.AbstractIterable.foreach(Iterable.scala:54) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter.map(TraversableLike.scala:721) at akka.remote.EndpointManager.akka$remote$EndpointManager$$listens(Remoting.scala:684) at akka.remote.EndpointManager$$anonfun$receive$2.applyOrElse(Remoting.scala:492) at akka.actor.Actor$class.aroundReceive(Actor.scala:465) at akka.remote.EndpointManager.aroundReceive(Remoting.scala:395) at akka.actor.ActorCell.receiveMessage(ActorCell.scala:516) at akka.actor.ActorCell.invoke(ActorCell.scala:487) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processMailbox(Mailbox.scala:254) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:221) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.exec(Mailbox.scala:231) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1339) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107) in the logs. This does not look right and indicates a version conflict of Netty. Netty 4.0 does not longer have a NioWorkerPool. I suspect that we have multiple Netty jars in the class path. This might be related to the other problems we're currently having with Travis. On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 28 Apr 2015, at 13:49, Maximilian Michels <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi Robert, > > > > Thanks for investigating the Travis build issues. I'm very much in favor > > for dropping Java 6. It's deprecated. All major Linux distributions are > > shipping at least Java 7. It's a rare use case that requires a lot of > > effort for us to maintain backwards compatibility. > > > > I don't recall the discussion but if we really decided to keep Java 6, > then > > I guess we have to install a custom Maven version on Travis. > > There was a discussion ~6 months ago: > http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Bump-the-minimum-Java-requirement-to-Java-7-for-Flink-td2243.html#a2249 > > Result was to not drop support for it. I'm not sure if anything has > changed (with regards to the arguments made). You can start a new > discussion if you think we should consider dropping support. In any case, > let's not mix it up with the discussion here. > > – Ufuk