Spark shell exits if it cannot create SparkContext

Mainly, this occurs if you provide a messed up MASTER url (one that doesn't match one
of our regexes). Previously, we would default to Mesos, fail, and then start the shell
anyway, except that any Spark command would fail.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/repl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/repl/SparkILoop.scala b/repl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/repl/SparkILoop.scala
index 36f54a22cf..48a8fa9328 100644
--- a/repl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/repl/SparkILoop.scala
+++ b/repl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/repl/SparkILoop.scala
@@ -845,7 +845,14 @@ class SparkILoop(in0: Option[BufferedReader], val out: PrintWriter, val master:
     val jars = Option(System.getenv("ADD_JARS")).map(_.split(','))
                                                 .getOrElse(new Array[String](0))
                                                 .map(new java.io.File(_).getAbsolutePath)
-    sparkContext = new SparkContext(master, "Spark shell", System.getenv("SPARK_HOME"), jars)
+    try {
+      sparkContext = new SparkContext(master, "Spark shell", System.getenv("SPARK_HOME"), jars)
+    } catch {
+      case e: Exception =>
+        e.printStackTrace()
+        echo("Failed to create SparkContext, exiting...")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    }
     sparkContext
   }