Till Rohrmann created FLINK-9169: ------------------------------------ Summary: NPE when restoring from old savepoint and state serializer could not be deserialized Key: FLINK-9169 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9169 Project: Flink Issue Type: Bug Components: State Backends, Checkpointing Affects Versions: 1.4.2, 1.5.0 Reporter: Till Rohrmann
A user reported to have observed the following exception when restoring a Flink job from a 1.3 savepoint with Flink 1.4. {code} 2018-04-02 21:44:18,146 INFO org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task - ApplyAMUpdate (13/160) (7248adb0b85f4458ae4144963d65 6fa6) switched from RUNNING to FAILED. java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not initialize keyed state backend. at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator.initKeyedState(AbstractStreamOperator.java:293) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator.initializeState(AbstractStreamOperator.java:225) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.initializeOperators(StreamTask.java:692) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.initializeState(StreamTask.java:679) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:253) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:718) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java:58) at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.RegisteredKeyedBackendStateMetaInfo.<init>(RegisteredKeyedBackendStateMetaInfo.java:53) at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBKeyedStateBackend$RocksDBFullRestoreOperation.restoreKVStateMetaData(RocksDBKeyedStateB ackend.java:1216) at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBKeyedStateBackend$RocksDBFullRestoreOperation.restoreKeyGroupsInStateHandle(RocksDBKeye dStateBackend.java:1153) at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBKeyedStateBackend$RocksDBFullRestoreOperation.doRestore(RocksDBKeyedStateBackend.java:1 139) at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBKeyedStateBackend.restore(RocksDBKeyedStateBackend.java:1034) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.createKeyedStateBackend(StreamTask.java:773) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator.initKeyedState(AbstractStreamOperator.java:283) ... 6 more {code} Looking at the {{KeyedBackendStateMetaInfoSnapshotReaderWriters}}, we create {{RegisteredKeyedBackendStateMetaInfo.Snapshot}} where the {{stateSerializer}} can be {{null}}. This is not the problem, however, in {{RocksDBKeyedStateBackend#restoreKVStateMetaData}} we create a {{RegisteredKeyedBackendStateMetaInfo}} from the deserialized {{Snapshot}} where we null check the state serializer. This will then fail with an indescriptive NPE. I think the same should happen when resuming with Flink 1.5 from a 1.4 savepoint. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)