For clarification, one of the operators in the chain mentioned in the
error message is a KeyedBroadcastProcessFunction, which I believe
creates an InternalTimerService implicitly. That might be why
"_timer_state" appears in this operator chain. However, it is still a
mystery to me why it worked in Flink 1.6 but not in Flink 1.8. Any
insights would be appreciated.

Ning

On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 10:28 PM Ning Shi <nings...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When testing a job on Flink 1.8, we hit the following error during
> resuming from RocksDB checkpoint. This job has been working well on
> Flink 1.6.1. The checkpoint was taken using the exact same job on 1.8.
> The operator StreamMap_3c5866a6cc097b462de842b2ef91910d it mentioned
> in the error message is a RichFlatMapper with TTL state. Why would
> "_timer_state" appear in a RichFlatMapper that doesn't use timer? How
> should we diagnose or resolve this error?
>
> 2019-04-21 01:55:08,616 WARN
> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.BackendRestorerProcedure  -
> Exception while restoring keyed state backend for
> StreamMap_3c5866a6cc097b462de842b2ef91910d_(11/36) from alternative
> (1/1), will retry while more alternatives are available.
> org.apache.flink.runtime.state.BackendBuildingException: Caught
> unexpected exception.
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder.build(RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder.java:323)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBStateBackend.createKeyedStateBackend(RocksDBStateBackend.java:520)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.lambda$keyedStatedBackend$1(StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.java:291)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.BackendRestorerProcedure.attemptCreateAndRestore(BackendRestorerProcedure.java:142)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.BackendRestorerProcedure.createAndRestore(BackendRestorerProcedure.java:121)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.keyedStatedBackend(StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.java:307)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.streamOperatorStateContext(StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.java:135)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator.initializeState(AbstractStreamOperator.java:250)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.initializeState(StreamTask.java:738)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:289)
>         at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:711)
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
> Caused by: java.io.IOException: Error while opening RocksDB instance.
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBOperationUtils.openDB(RocksDBOperationUtils.java:74)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.restore.AbstractRocksDBRestoreOperation.openDB(AbstractRocksDBRestoreOperation.java:131)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.restore.RocksDBIncrementalRestoreOperation.restoreFromLocalState(RocksDBIncrementalRestoreOperation.java:214)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.restore.RocksDBIncrementalRestoreOperation.restoreFromRemoteState(RocksDBIncrementalRestoreOperation.java:188)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.restore.RocksDBIncrementalRestoreOperation.restoreWithoutRescaling(RocksDBIncrementalRestoreOperation.java:162)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.restore.RocksDBIncrementalRestoreOperation.restore(RocksDBIncrementalRestoreOperation.java:148)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder.build(RocksDBKeyedStateBackendBuilder.java:267)
>         ... 11 more
> Caused by: org.rocksdb.RocksDBException: You have to open all column
> families. Column families not opened: _timer_state/event_user-timers,
> _timer_state/processing_user-timers
>         at org.rocksdb.RocksDB.open(Native Method)
>         at org.rocksdb.RocksDB.open(RocksDB.java:286)
>         at 
> org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBOperationUtils.openDB(RocksDBOperationUtils.java:66)
>         ... 17 more
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ning

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