Storm 1.0 on HDP 2.5: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.log4j.Log4jLoggerFactory

[#1]

Hello, I'm upgrading a topology from storm version 0.10.0 to 1.0.1 to deploy it on new HDP 2.5. The topology have a kafka spout and several bolts (hdfs, hive, hbase, socket...). Some tipical operations, as kafka spout, are packaging in separated library (called "Common") and so also this library is been updated with latest version of hadoop components. I have an issue when deploy topology, this error appears (by Storm UI) on spout:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.log4j.Log4jLoggerFactory at org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:39) at kafka.utils.Logging$class.logger(Logging.scala:24) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.logger$lzycompute(SimpleConsumer.scala:35) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.logger(SimpleConsumer.scala:35) at kafka.utils.Logging$class.info(Logging.scala:75) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.info(SimpleConsumer.scala:35) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.liftedTree1$1(SimpleConsumer.scala:94) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.kafka$consumer$SimpleConsumer$$sendRequest(SimpleConsumer.scala:83) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.getOffsetsBefore(SimpleConsumer.scala:149) at kafka.javaapi.consumer.SimpleConsumer.getOffsetsBefore(SimpleConsumer.scala:79) at org.apache.storm.kafka.KafkaUtils.getOffset(KafkaUtils.java:75) at org.apache.storm.kafka.KafkaUtils.getOffset(KafkaUtils.java:65) at org.apache.storm.kafka.PartitionManager.<init>(PartitionManager.java:94) at org.apache.storm.kafka.ZkCoordinator.refresh(ZkCoordinator.java:98) at org.apache.storm.kafka.ZkCoordinator.getMyManagedPartitions(ZkCoordinator.java:69) at org.apache.storm.kafka.KafkaSpout.nextTuple(KafkaSpout.java:129) at org.apache.storm.daemon.executor$fn__6503$fn__6518$fn__6549.invoke(executor.clj:651) at org.apache.storm.util$async_loop$fn__554.invoke(util.clj:484) at clojure.lang.AFn.run(AFn.java:22) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) 

Searching the error, I see that is necessary exclude log4j in pom.xml but the results is the same. I have also try to use old library of kafka but nothing is changed.

Following you can find the pom.xml of Common library (where is embedded spout) and topology:

COMMON pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.ecube.swarco</groupId>
    <artifactId>Common</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>    
    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
        <storm.core.version>1.0.1</storm.core.version>
        <storm.kafka.version>1.0.1</storm.kafka.version>
        <storm.hdfs.version>1.0.1</storm.hdfs.version>
        <storm.hive.version>1.0.1</storm.hive.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
                
        <!-- Storm core Dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
            <artifactId>storm-core</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.1</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion> 
                  <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                  <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                    <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
                </exclusion>    
                <exclusion> 
                    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
                    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
                </exclusion>            
            </exclusions>
            <type>jar</type>
        </dependency>
        
        <!-- Storm Kafka Dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
            <artifactId>storm-kafka</artifactId>
            <version>${storm.kafka.version}</version>            
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion> 
                  <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                  <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion> 
                    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
                    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
               
        <!-- Storm HDFS Dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
            <artifactId>storm-hdfs</artifactId>
            <version>${storm.hdfs.version}</version>
            <type>jar</type>
        </dependency>
        
        <!-- Storm Hive Dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
            <artifactId>storm-hive</artifactId>
            <version>${storm.hive.version}</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion><!-- possible scala confilict -->
                    <groupId>jline</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jline</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>        
        
    </dependencies>
</project>

TOPOLOGY pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.ecube.swarco</groupId>
    <artifactId>SignalGroup</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
        <hadoop.version>2.7.3</hadoop.version>
        <zookeeper.version>3.4.6</zookeeper.version>
        <kafka.version>0.10.0.1</kafka.version>
        <hbase.version>1.1.2</hbase.version>    
        <storm.core.version>1.0.1</storm.core.version>    
        <storm.kafka.version>1.0.1</storm.kafka.version>
    </properties>
    
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.4</version>
                <configuration>
                    <descriptorRefs>  
                        <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
                    </descriptorRefs>
                    <archive>
                        <manifest>
                            <mainClass>com.ecube.swarco.signalgroup.StormTopology</mainClass>
                        </manifest>
                    </archive>
                    <createDependencyReducedPom>true</createDependencyReducedPom>
                    <filters>
                        <filter>
                            <artifact>*:*</artifact>
                            <excludes>
                                <exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
                                <exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
                                <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
                            </excludes>
                        </filter>
                    </filters>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>shade</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>

                            <transformers>                   
                                <transformer
                                    implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>
                                <transformer
                                    implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
                                    <mainClass></mainClass>
                                </transformer>
                            </transformers>

                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>    
        </plugins>
    </build>
    
    <dependencies>
        
        <!-- Common Dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
            <artifactId>Common</artifactId>
            <version>${project.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        
        <!-- Utility Dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
            <artifactId>Utility</artifactId>
            <version>${project.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        
        <!-- Hadoop Dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
            <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
            <version>${hadoop.version}</version>                            
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                    <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        
        <!-- Zookeeper Dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
            <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
            <version>${zookeeper.version}</version>

            <exclusions>
                <exclusion> 
                  <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                  <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion> 
                  <groupId>log4j</groupId>
                  <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>

        </dependency>     
        
        <!-- Kafka Dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
            <artifactId>kafka_2.11</artifactId>
            <version>${kafka.version}</version>                        
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion> 
                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                    <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion> 
                    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
                    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
                
        <!-- Storm core Dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
            <artifactId>storm-core</artifactId>
            <version>${storm.core.version}</version>
            
            <!-- Only for distribuited mode 
                <scope>provided</scope>
            -->         
            <scope>provided</scope>     
            
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion> 
                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                    <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion> 
                    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
                    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
                    <artifactId>Common</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>        
        
        <!-- Storm Kafka Dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
            <artifactId>storm-kafka</artifactId>
            <version>${storm.kafka.version}</version>       
                                        
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion> 
                  <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                  <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion> 
                  <groupId>log4j</groupId>
                  <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
                    <artifactId>Common</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
                
        <!-- Hbase Dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
            <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
            <version>${hbase.version}</version>
        </dependency> 
        
         <!-- Other Dependency -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
            <version>3.1</version>
            <type>jar</type>
        </dependency>
        
    </dependencies>
    
</project>

Adding that it works if run as local cluster.

Could you have any suggestion to solve it?

Thanks in advance,

Giuseppe

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

I have solved the issue excluding the library "slf4j-log4j12" from package.

[#3]

Hi,

Which package ? you all ready excluding it from the storm core .