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When I faced this issue on my cluster, I thought it can be resolved by just simple restart of cluster or restarting ResourceManager service, however I spent more than 8 hours to resolve this issue.

Due to this both ResourceMnager were down or ResourceManager HA failed to failover.

 Cluster Detail:

-bash-4.2$ hadoop version 
Hadoop 3.0.0-cdh6.1.0

 Error Detail:

18:35.064 AM ERROR ResourceManager 
Failed to load/recover state
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FairScheduler.addApplicationAttempt(FairScheduler.java:525)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FairScheduler.handle(FairScheduler.java:1233)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FairScheduler.handle(FairScheduler.java:132)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.attempt.RMAppAttemptImpl$AttemptRecoveredTransition.transition(RMAppAttemptImpl.java:1266)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.attempt.RMAppAttemptImpl$AttemptRecoveredTransition.transition(RMAppAttemptImpl.java:1207)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.state.StateMachineFactory$MultipleInternalArc.doTransition(StateMachineFactory.java:385)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.state.StateMachineFactory.doTransition(StateMachineFactory.java:302)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.state.StateMachineFactory.access$500(StateMachineFactory.java:46)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.state.StateMachineFactory$InternalStateMachine.doTransition(StateMachineFactory.java:487)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.attempt.RMAppAttemptImpl.handle(RMAppAttemptImpl.java:908)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.attempt.RMAppAttemptImpl.handle(RMAppAttemptImpl.java:116)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.RMAppImpl.recoverAppAttempts(RMAppImpl.java:1078)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.RMAppImpl.access$2300(RMAppImpl.java:118)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.RMAppImpl$RMAppRecoveredTransition.transition(RMAppImpl.java:1142)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.RMAppImpl$RMAppRecoveredTransition.transition(RMAppImpl.java:1083)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.state.StateMachineFactory$MultipleInternalArc.doTransition(StateMachineFactory.java:385)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.state.StateMachineFactory.doTransition(StateMachineFactory.java:302)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.state.StateMachineFactory.access$500(StateMachineFactory.java:46)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.state.StateMachineFactory$InternalStateMachine.doTransition(StateMachineFactory.java:487)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.RMAppImpl.handle(RMAppImpl.java:891)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.RMAppManager.recoverApplication(RMAppManager.java:357)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.RMAppManager.recover(RMAppManager.java:550)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ResourceManager.recover(ResourceManager.java:1397)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ResourceManager$RMActiveServices.serviceStart(ResourceManager.java:762)
at org.apache.hadoop.service.AbstractService.start(AbstractService.java:194)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ResourceManager.startActiveServices(ResourceManager.java:1150)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ResourceManager$1.run(ResourceManager.java:1190)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ResourceManager$1.run(ResourceManager.java:1186)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)
at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1729)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ResourceManager.transitionToActive(ResourceManager.java:1186)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.AdminService.transitionToActive(AdminService.java:320)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ActiveStandbyElectorBasedElectorService.becomeActive(ActiveStandbyElectorBasedElectorService.java:144)
at org.apache.hadoop.ha.ActiveStandbyElector.becomeActive(ActiveStandbyElector.java:894)
at org.apache.hadoop.ha.ActiveStandbyElector.processResult(ActiveStandbyElector.java:473)
at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$EventThread.processEvent(ClientCnxn.java:604)
at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$EventThread.run(ClientCnxn.java:503)
4:18:35.064 AM INFO RMAppManager$ApplicationSummary

Caused by:

java.lang.NullPointerException 
at
org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FairScheduler.addApplicationAttempt(FairScheduler.java:525)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FairScheduler.handle(FairScheduler.java:1233)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FairScheduler.handle(FairScheduler.java:132)

Solution: Based on the discussion with Cloudera this is a bug and later they provided a patch for this as it’s a YARN-7013, however we can apply a workaround, that is just format the state store to resolve this issue and enable Resource Manager to transition to active state.

To do this:

From Cloudera Manager, Stop the YARN service. 
Format the state store.
Go to Cloudera Manager, navigate to YARN > Actions > Format State Store.
Start the YARN service in Cloudera Manager.

Note:

  • If the RM’s are recovering automatically while restart, then no need to follow the above workaround. 
  • By formatting state store we will not lose any previous application run details.

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