TaskController Error Codes (MRv1)

This table shows some of the error codes and messages generated by TaskController in MapReduce (MRv1).

Table 1.
Numeric Code	Name	Description
1	INVALID_ARGUMENT_NUMBER	Incorrect number of arguments provided for the given task-controller command Failure to initialize the job localizer
2	INVALID_USER_NAME	The user passed to the task-controller does not exist.
3	INVALID_COMMAND_PROVIDED	The task-controller does not recognize the command it was asked to run.
4	SUPER_USER_NOT_ALLOWED_TO_RUN_TASKS	The user passed to the task-controller was the super user.
5	INVALID_TT_ROOT	The passed TaskTracker root does not match the configured TaskTracker root (`mapred.local.dir`), or does not exist.
6	SETUID_OPER_FAILED	Either could not read the local groups database, or could not set UID or GID.
7	UNABLE_TO_EXECUTE_TASK_SCRIPT	The task-controller could not run the task launcher script.
8	UNABLE_TO_KILL_TASK	The task-controller could not stop the task it was passed.
9	INVALID_TASK_PID	The PID passed to the task-controller was negative or 0.
10	ERROR_RESOLVING_FILE_PATH	The task-controller could not resolve the path of the task launcher script file.
11	RELATIVE_PATH_COMPONENTS_IN_FILE_PATH	The path to the task launcher script file contains relative components (for example, "..").
12	UNABLE_TO_STAT_FILE	The task-controller did not have permission to stat a file it needed to check the ownership of.
13	FILE_NOT_OWNED_BY_TASKTRACKER	A file which the task-controller must change the ownership of has the wrong the ownership.
14	PREPARE_ATTEMPT_DIRECTORIES_FAILED	The `mapred.local.dir` is not configured, could not be read by the task-controller, or could not have its ownership secured.
15	INITIALIZE_JOB_FAILED	The task-controller could not get, stat, or secure the job directory or job working working directory.
16	PREPARE_TASK_LOGS_FAILED	The task-controller could not find or could not change the ownership of the task log directory to the passed user.
17	INVALID_TT_LOG_DIR	The `hadoop.log.dir` is not configured.
18	OUT_OF_MEMORY	The task-controller could not determine the job directory path or the task launcher script path.
19	INITIALIZE_DISTCACHEFILE_FAILED	Could not get a unique value for, stat, or the local distributed cache directory.
20	INITIALIZE_USER_FAILED	Could not get, stat, or secure the per-user task tracker directory.
21	UNABLE_TO_BUILD_PATH	The task-controller could not concatenate two paths, most likely because it ran out of memory.
22	INVALID_TASKCONTROLLER_PERMISSIONS	The task-controller binary does not have the correct permissions set. See "YARN, MRv1, and Linux OS Security".
23	PREPARE_JOB_LOGS_FAILED	The task-controller could not find or could not change the ownership of the job log directory to the passed user.
24	INVALID_CONFIG_FILE	The taskcontroller.cfg file is missing, malformed, or has incorrect permissions.
255	Unknown Error	Several possible causes for this error, including: User accounts on the cluster with an ID less than the value specified for the `min.user.id` property in the `taskcontroller.cfg` file. Default value of 1000 is good for Ubuntu but may not be valid for other OSs. To set the `min.user.id` in the `taskcontroller.cfg` file, see "Step 7: Prepare the cluster for each user". Jobs do not run and the TaskTracker is unable to create a Hadoop logs directory (see "Troubleshooting Error Messages>Jobs cannot run and TaskTracker cannot create Hadoop logs directory"). May result from previous errors. Check older entries in the log file for possibilities.