NullPointerException is thrown while merging edit log and image ---------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HDFS-686 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-686 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: name-node Affects Versions: 0.20.1 Reporter: Hairong Kuang Assignee: Hairong Kuang Fix For: 0.20.2 Our secondary name node is not able to start on NullPointerException: ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.unprotectedSetTimes(FSDirectory.java:1232) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.unprotectedSetTimes(FSDirectory.java:1221) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.loadFSEdits(FSEditLog.java:776) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.loadFSEdits(FSImage.java:992) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode$CheckpointStorage.doMerge(SecondaryNameNode.java:590) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode$CheckpointStorage.access$000(SecondaryNameNode.java:473) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.doMerge(SecondaryNameNode.java:350) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.doCheckpoint(SecondaryNameNode.java:314) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.run(SecondaryNameNode.java:225) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) This was caused by setting access time on a non-existent file. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.