different behaviour linux/Unix vs windows when load spark context in scala method called from R function using rscala package

[Simone Pallotta]

In my R code, I am using rscala package to bridge to a scala method. in scala 
method I have initialized a spark context to be used later.


R code:

s <- scala(classpath = "<path to jar>", heap.maximum = "4g")

assign("WrappeR",s$.it.wrapper.r.Wrapper)

WrappeR$init()


where init is a scala function and Wrapper is scala class name (see below).

I created a scala object (Wrapper) with init function


scala code:

package it.wrapper.r

object Wrapper {

  var Spark_context: SparkContext = _

    def init(): Unit = {

        val spark_conf = new SparkConf()

          .setMaster("local[*]")

          .setAppName("GMQL-R")

          .set("spark.serializer", "org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer")

          .set("spark.executor.memory", "6g")

          .set("spark.driver.memory", "2g")

        Spark_context = SparkContext.getOrCreate(spark_conf)

      }

}

I removed the following code after Spark_context because is not useful.

this code works without flaws under OS X and Linux. Of course window is not 
gentle as other OSes. I checked out my project under windows (I have installed 
scala 2.11.8, java 1.8 and create environment variable JAVA_HOME and SCALA_HOME 
that are mandatory for running rscala package in R, I did the same in OS 
X/Linux)

when I run the jar file as standalone application it works fine under windows, 
but when I invoke the same function from R it fails giving this error:


Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: class 
org.apache.hadoop.security.JniBasedUnixGroupsMappingWithFallback not 
org.apache.hadoop.security.GroupMappingServiceProvider

        at 
org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getClass(Configuration.java:1752)

        at org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups.<init>(Groups.java:55)

        at 
org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups.getUserToGroupsMappingService(Groups.java:182)

        at 
org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.initialize(UserGroupInformation.java:235)

        at 
org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.ensureInitialized(UserGroupInformation.java:214)

        at 
org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.getLoginUser(UserGroupInformation.java:669)

        at `enter code 
here`org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser(UserGroupInformation.java:571)

        at 
org.apache.spark.util.Utils$$anonfun$getCurrentUserName$1.apply(Utils.scala:2391)

        at 
org.apache.spark.util.Utils$$anonfun$getCurrentUserName$1.apply(Utils.scala:2391)

        at scala.Option.getOrElse(Option.scala:121)

        at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.getCurrentUserName(Utils.scala:2391)

        at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:295)

        at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:145)

        at it.polimi.genomics.r.Wrapper$.initGMQL(Wrapper.scala:98)

        at $line4.$read$$iw$$iw$$anonfun$1.apply$mcV$sp(<console>:19)

        at $line4.$read$$iw$$iw$$anonfun$1.apply(<console>:16)

        at $line4.$read$$iw$$iw$$anonfun$1.apply(<console>:16)

        ... 46 more

    Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: class 
org.apache.hadoop.security.JniBasedUnixGroupsMappingWithFallback not 
org.apache.hadoop.security.GroupMappingServiceProvider

        at 
org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getClass(Configuration.java:1746)

        ... 62 more

    java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

    java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: class 
org.apache.hadoop.security.JniBasedUnixGroupsMappingWithFallback not 
org.apache.hadoop.security.GroupMappingServiceProvider


Does anyone has already seen this kind of behavior?