how to handle execution timeout in flink - apache-flink

Question

Connected to JobManager at Actor[akka.tcp://flink#localhost:6123/user/jobmanager#-1119198862] with leader session id 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.
org.apache.flink.client.program.ProgramInvocationException: The program execution failed: Couldn't retrieve the JobExecutionResult from the JobManager.
at org.apache.flink.client.program.ClusterClient.run(ClusterClient.java:478)
at org.apache.flink.client.program.StandaloneClusterClient.submitJob(StandaloneClusterClient.java:105)
at org.apache.flink.client.program.ClusterClient.run(ClusterClient.java:442)
at org.apache.flink.client.program.ClusterClient.run(ClusterClient.java:429)
at org.apache.flink.client.program.ContextEnvironment.execute(ContextEnvironment.java:62)
at FileSetWordCount.main(FileSetWordCount.java:178)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgram.callMainMethod(PackagedProgram.java:528)
at org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgram.invokeInteractiveModeForExecution(PackagedProgram.java:419)
at org.apache.flink.client.program.ClusterClient.run(ClusterClient.java:381)
at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.executeProgram(CliFrontend.java:838)
at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.run(CliFrontend.java:259)
at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.parseParameters(CliFrontend.java:1086)
at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend$2.call(CliFrontend.java:1133)
at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend$2.call(CliFrontend.java:1130)
at org.apache.flink.runtime.security.HadoopSecurityContext$1.run(HadoopSecurityContext.java:43)
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:1556)
at org.apache.flink.runtime.security.HadoopSecurityContext.runSecured(HadoopSecurityContext.java:40)
at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.main(CliFrontend.java:1130)
Caused by: org.apache.flink.runtime.client.JobExecutionException: Couldn't retrieve the JobExecutionResult from the JobManager.
at org.apache.flink.runtime.client.JobClient.awaitJobResult(JobClient.java:309)
at org.apache.flink.runtime.client.JobClient.submitJobAndWait(JobClient.java:396)
at org.apache.flink.client.program.ClusterClient.run(ClusterClient.java:467)
... 23 more
Caused by: org.apache.flink.runtime.client.JobClientActorSubmissionTimeoutException: Job submission to the JobManager timed out. You may increase 'akka.client.timeout' in case the JobManager needs more time to configure and confirm the job submission.
at org.apache.flink.runtime.client.JobSubmissionClientActor.handleCustomMessage(JobSubmissionClientActor.java:119)
at org.apache.flink.runtime.client.JobClientActor.handleMessage(JobClientActor.java:251)
at org.apache.flink.runtime.akka.FlinkUntypedActor.handleLeaderSessionID(FlinkUntypedActor.java:89)
at org.apache.flink.runtime.akka.FlinkUntypedActor.onReceive(FlinkUntypedActor.java:68)
at akka.actor.UntypedActor$$anonfun$receive$1.applyOrElse(UntypedActor.scala:167)
at akka.actor.Actor$class.aroundReceive(Actor.scala:467)
at akka.actor.UntypedActor.aroundReceive(UntypedActor.scala:97)
at akka.actor.ActorCell.receiveMessage(ActorCell.scala:516)
at akka.actor.ActorCell.invoke(ActorCell.scala:487)
at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processMailbox(Mailbox.scala:238)
at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:220)
at akka.dispatch.ForkJoinExecutorConfigurator$AkkaForkJoinTask.exec(AbstractDispatcher.scala:397)
at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260)
at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1339)
at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979)
at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107)
No JobSubmissionResult returned, please make sure you called ExecutionEnvironment.execute()
This is an exception threw by Flink. How to handle the client timeout exception? This Flink application is going to run in the local envirionment. The application is used for about 1TB files processing.

Answer 1

I have figure it out. It is necessary to modify the 'flink-conf.yaml' file with adding a new line "akka.client.timeout: xx s"(e.g. "akka.client.timeout: 600 s").