I am facing different kinds of java.lang.ClassNotFoundException when trying to run spark on mesos. One error has to do with org.apache.spark.executor.MesosExecutorBackend. Another has to do with org.apache.spark.serializer.JavaSerializer. I see other people complaining about similar issues.
I tried with different version of spark distribution - 0.9.0 and 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT and faced the same problem. I think the reason for this is is related to the error below. $ jar -xf spark-assembly_2.10-0.9.0-incubating-hadoop2.2.0.jar java.io.IOException: META-INF/license : could not create directory at sun.tools.jar.Main.extractFile(Main.java:907) at sun.tools.jar.Main.extract(Main.java:850) at sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Main.java:240) at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Main.java:1147) This error happens with all the jars that I created. But the classes that are already generated is different in the different cases. If JavaSerializer is not already extracted before encountering META-INF/license, then that class is not found during execution. If MesosExecutorBackend is not found, then that class shows up in the mesos slave error logs. Can someone confirm if this is a valid cause for the problem I am seeing? Any way I can debug this further? — Bharath