Common errors when running jobs - Amazon EMR
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Common errors when running jobs

The following errors may occur when you run StartJobRun API.

Error Message Error Condition Recommended Next Step

error: argument --argument is required

 Required parameters are missing. Add the missing arguments to the API request.
An error occurred (AccessDeniedException) when calling the StartJobRun operation: User: ARN is not authorized to perform: emr-containers:StartJobRun Execution role is missing. See Using Using job execution roles with Amazon EMR on EKS.

An error occurred (AccessDeniedException) when calling the StartJobRun operation: User: ARN is not authorized to perform: emr-containers:StartJobRun

Caller doesn't have permission to the execution role [valid / not valid format] via condition keys.

 See Using job execution roles with Amazon EMR on EKS.

An error occurred (AccessDeniedException) when calling the StartJobRun operation: User: ARN is not authorized to perform: emr-containers:StartJobRun

Job submitter and Execution role ARN are from different accounts.

 Ensure that job submitter and execution role ARN are from the same Amazon account.

1 validation error detected: Value Role at 'executionRoleArn' failed to satisfy the ARN regular expression pattern: ^arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):iam::(\d{12})?:(role((\u002F)|(\u002F[\u0021-\u007F]+\u002F))[\w+=,.@-]+)

Caller has permissions for the execution role via condition keys, but the role does not satisfy the constraints of ARN format.

 Provide the execution role following the ARN format. See Using job execution roles with Amazon EMR on EKS.

An error occurred (ResourceNotFoundException) when calling the StartJobRun operation: Virtual cluster Virtual Cluster ID doesn't exist.

Virtual cluster ID is not found.

 Provide a virtual cluster ID registered with Amazon EMR on EKS.

An error occurred (ValidationException) when calling the StartJobRun operation: Virtual cluster state state is not valid to create resource JobRun.

Virtual cluster is not ready to execute job.

 See Virtual cluster states.

An error occurred (ResourceNotFoundException) when calling the StartJobRun operation: Release RELEASE doesn't exist.

The release specified in job submission is incorrect.

 See Amazon EMR on EKS releases.

An error occurred (AccessDeniedException) when calling the StartJobRun operation: User: ARN is not authorized to perform: emr-containers:StartJobRun on resource: ARN with an explicit deny.

An error occurred (AccessDeniedException) when calling the StartJobRun operation: User: ARN is not authorized to perform: emr-containers:StartJobRun on resource: ARN

 User is not authorized to call StartJobRun. See Using job execution roles with Amazon EMR on EKS.

An error occurred (ValidationException) when calling the StartJobRun operation: configurationOverrides.monitoringConfiguration.s3MonitoringConfiguration.logUri failed to satisfy constraint : %s

S3 path URI syntax is not valid.

 logUri should be in the format of s3://...

The following errors may occur when you run DescribeJobRun API before the job runs.

Error Message Error Condition Recommended Next Step

stateDetails: JobRun submission failed.

Classification classification not supported.

failureReason: VALIDATION_ERROR

state: FAILED.

 Parameters in StartJobRun are not valid. See Amazon EMR on EKS releases.

stateDetails: Cluster EKS Cluster ID does not exist.

failureReason: CLUSTER_UNAVAILABLE

state: FAILED

 The EKS cluster is not available. Check if the EKS cluster exists and has the right permissions. For more information, see Setting up Amazon EMR on EKS.

stateDetails: Cluster EKS Cluster ID does not have sufficient permissions.

failureReason: CLUSTER_UNAVAILABLE

state: FAILED

Amazon EMR does not have permissions to access the EKS cluster.

 Verify that permissions are set up for Amazon EMR on the registered namespace. For more information, see Setting up Amazon EMR on EKS.

stateDetails: Cluster EKS Cluster ID is currently not reachable.

failureReason: CLUSTER_UNAVAILABLE

state: FAILED

EKS cluster is not reachable.

 Check if EKS Cluster exists and has the right permissions. For more information, see Setting up Amazon EMR on EKS.

stateDetails: JobRun submission failed due to an internal error.

failureReason: INTERNAL_ERROR

state: FAILED

An internal error has occurred with the EKS cluster.

 N/A

stateDetails: Cluster EKS Cluster ID does not have sufficient resources.

failureReason: USER_ERROR

state: FAILED

There are insufficient resources in the EKS cluster to run the job.

 Add more capacity to the EKS node group or set up EKS Autoscaler. For more information, see Cluster Autoscaler.

The following errors may occur when you run DescribeJobRun API after the job runs.

Error Message Error Condition Recommended Next Step

stateDetails: Trouble monitoring your JobRun.

Cluster EKS Cluster ID does not exist.

failureReason: CLUSTER_UNAVAILABLE

state: FAILED

 The EKS cluster does not exist. Check if EKS Cluster exists and has the right permissions. For more information, see Setting up Amazon EMR on EKS.

stateDetails: Trouble monitoring your JobRun.

Cluster EKS Cluster ID does not have sufficient permissions.

failureReason: CLUSTER_UNAVAILABLE

state: FAILED

 Amazon EMR does not have permissions to access the EKS cluster. Verify that permissions are set up for Amazon EMR on the registered namespace. For more information, see Setting up Amazon EMR on EKS.

stateDetails: Trouble monitoring your JobRun.

Cluster EKS Cluster ID is currently not reachable.

failureReason: CLUSTER_UNAVAILABLE

state: FAILED

The EKS cluster is not reachable.

 Check if EKS Cluster exists and has the right permissions. For more information, see Setting up Amazon EMR on EKS.

stateDetails: Trouble monitoring your JobRun due to an internal error

failureReason: INTERNAL_ERROR

state: FAILED

An internal error has occurred and is preventing JobRun monitoring.

 N/A

The following error may occur when a job cannot start and the job waits in the SUBMITTED state for 15 minutes. This can be caused by a lack of cluster resources.

Error Message Error Condition Recommended Next Step

cluster timeout

 The job has been in the SUBMITTED state for 15 minutes or more. You can override the default setting of 15 minutes for this parameter with the configuration override shown below.

Use the following configuration to change the cluster timeout setting to 30 minutes. Notice that you provide the new job-start-timeout value in seconds:

{
"configurationOverrides": {
  "applicationConfiguration": [{
      "classification": "emr-containers-defaults",
      "properties": {
          "job-start-timeout":"1800"
      }
  }]
}