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Rob Vesse commented on HADOOP-13824:
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This isn't simply a case of me providing a bad argument at the command line. I
am using the generic {{-D}} to pass in a valid HDFS client option.
When I set that option to {{true}} I encounter this error, presumably because
the option leads to an {{IllegalArgumentException}} somewhere in the HDFS
client inner workings. But as I don't have a stack trace to go on I don't know
where to start looking.
When I set to {{false}} I avoid the NPE and the command runs (although still
errors elsewhere due to network configurations which setting the option to
{{true}} is a potential workaround for)
> FsShell can suppress the real error if no error message is present
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> Key: HADOOP-13824
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13824
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: fs
> Affects Versions: 2.7.1, 2.7.3
> Reporter: Rob Vesse
>
> The {{FsShell}} error handling assumes in {{displayError()}} that the
> {{message}} argument is not {{null}}. However in the case where it is this
> leads to a NPE which results in suppressing the actual error information
> since a higher level of error handling kicks in and just dumps the stack
> trace of the NPE instead.
> e.g.
> {noformat}
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FsShell.displayError(FsShell.java:304)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FsShell.run(FsShell.java:289)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:84)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FsShell.main(FsShell.java:340)
> {noformat}
> This is deeply unhelpful because depending on what the underlying error was
> there may be no stack dumped/logged for it (as HADOOP-7114 provides) since
> {{FsShell}} doesn't explicitly dump traces for {{IllegalArgumentException}}
> which appears to be the underlying cause of my issue. Line 289 is where
> {{displayError()}} is called for {{IllegalArgumentException}} handling and
> that catch clause does not log the error.
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