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Patrick McCarthy
Patrick McCarthy

Reputation: 2538

Spark 3.0.0 error creating SparkSession: pyspark.sql.utils.IllegalArgumentException: <exception str() failed>

I'm trying to build Spark 3.0.0 for my Yarn cluster, with Hadoop 2.7.3 and Hive 1.2.1. I downloaded the source and created a runnable dist with

./dev/make-distribution.sh --name custom-spark --pip --r --tgz -Psparkr -Phive-1.2 -Phadoop-2.7 -Pyarn

We're running Spark 2.4.0 in production so I copied the hive-site.xml, spark-env.sh and spark-defaults.conf from there.

When I try to create a SparkSession in a normal Python REPL, I get the following uninformative error. How can I debug this? I can run the spark-shell and get to a scala prompt with Hive access seemingly without error.

Python 3.6.3 (default, Apr 10 2018, 16:07:04)
[GCC 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> import sys
>>> os.environ['SPARK_HOME'] = '/home/pmccarthy/custom-spark-3'
>>> sys.path.insert(0,os.path.join(os.environ['SPARK_HOME'],'python','lib','py4j-src.zip'))
>>> sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.environ['SPARK_HOME'],'python'))
>>> import pyspark
>>> from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
>>> spark = (SparkSession.builder.enableHiveSupport().config('spark.master','local').getOrCreate())

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/pmccarthy/custom-spark-3/python/pyspark/sql/session.py", line 191, in getOrCreate
    session._jsparkSession.sessionState().conf().setConfString(key, value)
  File "/home/pmccarthy/custom-spark-3/python/lib/py4j-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 1305, in __call__
  File "/home/pmccarthy/custom-spark-3/python/pyspark/sql/utils.py", line 137, in deco
    raise_from(converted)
  File "<string>", line 3, in raise_from
pyspark.sql.utils.IllegalArgumentException: <exception str() failed>

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7077

Answers (1)

itstwelvehere
itstwelvehere

Reputation: 400

I also encountered pyspark.sql.utils.IllegalArgumentException: <exception str() failed>. It was caused on my side by using an option removed in Spark 3 (spark.sql.legacy.allowCreatingManagedTableUsingNonemptyLocation).

Upvotes: 4

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