(null) entry in command string exception in saveAsTextFile() on Pyspark

Question

I am working in PySpark on a Jupyter notebook (Python 2.7) in windows 7. I have an RDD of type pyspark.rdd.PipelinedRDD called idSums. When attempting to execute idSums.saveAsTextFile("Output"), I receive the following error:

Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o834.saveAsTextFile.
: org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 1 in stage 33.0 failed 1 times, most recent failure: Lost task 1.0 in stage 33.0 (TID 131, localhost): java.io.IOException: (null) entry in command string: null chmod 0644 C:\Users\seride\Desktop\Experiments\PySpark\Output\_temporary\0\_temporary\attempt_201611231307_0033_m_000001_131\part-00001

There shouldn't be any problem with the RDD object, in my opinion, because I'm able to execute other actions without error, e.g. executing idSums.collect() produces the correct output.

Furthermore, the Output directory is created (with all subdirectories) and the file part-00001 is created, but it is 0 bytes.

Answer 1

You are missing winutils.exe a hadoop binary . Depending upon x64 bit / x32 bit System download the winutils.exe file & set your hadoop home pointing to it.

1st way :

1. Download the file
2. Create hadoop folder in Your System, ex C:
3. Create bin folder in hadoop directory, ex : C:\hadoop\bin
4. paste winutils.exe in bin, ex: C:\hadoop\bin\winutils.exe
5. In User Variables in System Properties -> Advance System Settings

Create New Variable Name: HADOOP_HOME Path: C:\hadoop\

2nd Way :

You can set hadoop home directly in Your Java Program with the following Command like this :

System.setProperty("hadoop.home.dir","C:\hadoop" );

Answer 2

I had a similar exception saying permission issue when loading a model built in some other machine and copied in my Windows system although my HADOOP_HOME was set.

I just ran the following command over my model folder:

winutils.exe chmod -R 777 model-path