wenwupeng created HDFS-4558: ------------------------------- Summary: start balancer failed with NPE Key: HDFS-4558 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4558 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: balancer Reporter: wenwupeng Priority: Critical Fix For: 1.2.0
start balancer failed with NPE File this issue to track for QE and dev take a look balancer.log: 2013-03-06 00:19:55,174 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.BlockPlacementPolicy.getInstance(BlockPlacementPolicy.java:165) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer.checkReplicationPolicyCompatibility(Balancer.java:799) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer.<init>(Balancer.java:808) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer.main(Balancer.java:831) Balancer.java private void checkReplicationPolicyCompatibility(Configuration conf) throws UnsupportedActionException { if (!(BlockPlacementPolicy.getInstance(conf, null, null) <== here instanceof BlockPlacementPolicyDefault)) { throw new UnsupportedActionException( "Balancer without BlockPlacementPolicyDefault"); } } -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira