Problem scenario
When you run hadoop commands, you get an error like this:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.tools.CLI.displayJobList(CLI.java:784)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.tools.CLI.displayJobList(CLI.java:769)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.tools.CLI.listAllJobs(CLI.java:697)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.tools.CLI.run(CLI.java:428)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:76)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:90)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.main(JobClient.java:1277)
What should you do?
Solution
Find the mapred-site.xml file. Make sure it has these stanzas (within the configuration and /configuration tags):
<property>
<name>mapreduce.framework.name</name>
<value>yarn</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>yarn.app.mapreduce.am.env</name>
<value>HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=$HADOOP_HOME</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>mapreduce.map.env</name>
<value>HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=$HADOOP_HOME</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>mapreduce.reduce.env</name>
<value>HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=$HADOOP_HOME</value>
</property>Now try the hadoop command again.