NullPointerException while training from dataframe

[abhaymise]

I am getting the following error while training from a dataframe

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.yahoo.ml.caffe.CaffeOnSpark$$anonfun$6.apply(CaffeOnSpark.scala:178)
at com.yahoo.ml.caffe.CaffeOnSpark$$anonfun$6.apply(CaffeOnSpark.scala:172)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$mapPartitions$1$$anonfun$apply$20.apply(RDD.scala:710)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$mapPartitions$1$$anonfun$apply$20.apply(RDD.scala:710)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:38)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:306)
at org.apache.spark.CacheManager.getOrCompute(CacheManager.scala:69)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:268)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:66)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:89)
at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:214)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Driver stacktrace:
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.org$apache$spark$scheduler$DAGScheduler$$failJobAndIndependentStages(DAGScheduler.scala:1431)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1419)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1418)
at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray$class.foreach(ResizableArray.scala:59)
at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:47)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.abortStage(DAGScheduler.scala:1418)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:799)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:799)
at scala.Option.foreach(Option.scala:236)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.handleTaskSetFailed(DAGScheduler.scala:799)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.doOnReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1640)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.onReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1599)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.onReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1588)
at org.apache.spark.util.EventLoop$$anon$1.run(EventLoop.scala:48)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.runJob(DAGScheduler.scala:620)
at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1832)
at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1952)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$reduce$1.apply(RDD.scala:1025)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:150)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:111)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.withScope(RDD.scala:316)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.reduce(RDD.scala:1007)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$min$1.apply(RDD.scala:1418)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:150)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:111)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.withScope(RDD.scala:316)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.min(RDD.scala:1417)
at com.yahoo.ml.caffe.CaffeOnSpark.train(CaffeOnSpark.scala:182)
at com.yahoo.ml.caffe.CaffeOnSpark$.main(CaffeOnSpark.scala:40)
at com.yahoo.ml.caffe.CaffeOnSpark.main(CaffeOnSpark.scala)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.org$apache$spark$deploy$SparkSubmit$$runMain(SparkSubmit.scala:731)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.doRunMain$1(SparkSubmit.scala:181)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:206)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:121)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.yahoo.ml.caffe.CaffeOnSpark$$anonfun$6.apply(CaffeOnSpark.scala:178)
at com.yahoo.ml.caffe.CaffeOnSpark$$anonfun$6.apply(CaffeOnSpark.scala:172)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$mapPartitions$1$$anonfun$apply$20.apply(RDD.scala:710)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$mapPartitions$1$$anonfun$apply$20.apply(RDD.scala:710)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:38)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:306)
at org.apache.spark.CacheManager.getOrCompute(CacheManager.scala:69)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:268)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:66)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:89)
at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:214)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

This ran when i had num-executors as 4 and cores as 7 .

Current setting is :

spark-submit --master ${MASTER_URL}
--deploy-mode client
--executor-memory 5G
--executor-cores 3
--conf spark.yarn.executor.memoryOverhead=2000
--num-executors 6
--files /home/ubuntu/caffe/CaffeOnSpark/data/hdfs_walmart/WALNET/GOOGLE/DF/walmart_dataframe_train_val.prototxt,/home/ubuntu/caffe/CaffeOnSpark/data/hdfs_walmart/WALNET/GOOGLE/DF/walmart_dataframe_quick_solver.prototxt
--conf spark.driver.extraLibraryPath="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
--conf spark.executorEnv.LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
--class com.yahoo.ml.caffe.CaffeOnSpark
${CAFFE_ON_SPARK}/caffe-grid/target/caffe-grid-0.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar
-train
-features accuracy,loss -label label
-conf /home/ubuntu/caffe/CaffeOnSpark/data/hdfs_walmart/WALNET/GOOGLE/DF/walmart_dataframe_quick_solver.prototxt
-clusterSize 8
-devices ${DEVICES}
-connection ethernet
-model hdfs://master:9000/walmart/googlenet/DF/model/walmart.model
-output hdfs://master:9000/walmart/googlenet/DF/features/walmart_test_result

[junshi15]

Your probably should not specify both --num-executors and --clusterSize.
num-executors is for yarn only. In that case, clusterSize is automatically set accordingly.
https://github.com/yahoo/CaffeOnSpark/blob/master/caffe-grid/src/main/scala/com/yahoo/ml/caffe/Config.scala#L386-L401

But NullPointerExeception is likely due to incorrect settings for either (or both) of them.

[anfeng]

Please try out with our latest code, and update this issue accordingly.

[mriduljain]

Closing this as there is no update. Please reopen as necessary