1

INVALID_ARGUMENT_NUMBER

• Incorrect number of arguments provided for the given task-controller command
• Failure to initialize the container localizer

2

INVALID_USER_NAME

The user passed to the task-controller does not exist.

3

INVALID_COMMAND_PROVIDED

The container-executor does not recognize the command it was asked to run.

5

INVALID_NM_ROOT

The passed NodeManager root does not match the configured NodeManager root (yarn.nodemanager.local-dirs), 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_CONTAINER_SCRIPT

The container-executor could not run the container launcher script.

8

UNABLE_TO_SIGNAL_CONTAINER

The container-executor could not signal the container it was passed.

9

INVALID_CONTAINER_PID

The PID passed to the container-executor was negative or 0.

18

OUT_OF_MEMORY

The container-executor couldn't allocate enough memory while reading the container-executor.cfg file, or while getting the paths for the container launcher script or credentials files.

20

INITIALIZE_USER_FAILED

Couldn't get, stat, or secure the per-user NodeManager directory.

21

UNABLE_TO_BUILD_PATH

The container-executor couldn't concatenate two paths, most likely because it ran out of memory.

22

INVALID_CONTAINER_EXEC_PERMISSIONS

The container-executor binary does not have the correct permissions set. See Information about Other Hadoop Security Programs.

24

INVALID_CONFIG_FILE

The container-executor.cfg file is missing, malformed, or has incorrect permissions.

25

SETSID_OPER_FAILED

Could not set the session ID of the forked container.

26

WRITE_PIDFILE_FAILED

Failed to write the value of the PID of the launched container to the PID file of the container.

255

Unknown Error

This error has several possible causes. Some common causes are:

• User accounts on your cluster have a user ID less than the value specified for the min.user.id property in the container-executor.cfg file. The default value is 1000 which is appropriate on Ubuntu systems, but may not be valid for your operating system. For information about setting min.user.id in the container-executor.cfg file, see this step.
• This error is often caused by previous errors; look earlier in the log file for possible causes.