Problem reading file footer

Products

• VMware Tanzu Data Suite
• VMware Tanzu Greenplum
• VMware Tanzu Greenplum / Gemfire

Issue/Introduction

+ CentOs7 to Linux Alma 9 upgrade on few of the Hadoop Data Nodes.

+ This issue is only observed with PXF queries reading from ORC files in Hadoop and writing to Greenplum tables failing with below listed error, but other format like AVRO/text not failing.

2025-05-06 02:55:43.071 UTC ERROR [1742664020-0004741715:heds2:981] 26667 --- [onse-15012] o.g.p.s.c.PxfErrorReporter               : Problem reading file footer hdfs://name2-ord-hdw-prod/default/hive/warehouse/my.db/mytable/partition_start_date=20250505/partition_end_date=20250505/dtm_id0_flag=0/source_code=rtbnobid/partition_region_id=1/part-00001-1110700a-5b86-4b01-8262-f33625fd074e.c000.zlib.1746435600000.orc

Environment

GPDB 6.28.1

PXF 6.11

OS Linux Alma 9

 

Cause

Libraries were complied for incorrect environment was the cause.

Resolution

Re-compiled the libraries with the correct environment, and the issue has not occurred since that time.