Secondary Name Node crash, NPE in edit log replay -------------------------------------------------
Key: HDFS-1002 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1002 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.21.0 Reporter: ryan rawson Fix For: 0.21.0 An NPE in SNN, the core of the message looks like yay so: 2010-02-25 11:54:05,834 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.addChild(FSDirectory.java:1152) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.addChild(FSDirectory.java:1164) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.addNode(FSDirectory.java:1067) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.unprotectedAddFile(FSDirectory.java:213) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.loadEditRecords(FSEditLog.java:511) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.loadFSEdits(FSEditLog.java:401) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.loadFSEdits(FSEditLog.java:368) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.loadFSEdits(FSImage.java:1172) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode$CheckpointStorage.doMerge(SecondaryNameNode.java:594) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode$CheckpointStorage.access$000(SecondaryNameNode.java:476) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.doMerge(SecondaryNameNode.java:353) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.doCheckpoint(SecondaryNameNode.java:317) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.run(SecondaryNameNode.java:219) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) This happens even if I restart SNN over and over again. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.