Can't Get Past Generating VocabIDs

[chanelm]

was testing out this project and whenever i get to generating the vocabIDs (right after the first hadoop m/r), it always throws this error:

BigFatLM.Sentences 100000
BigFatLM.Tokens 1003830
BigFatLM.Types 63106
Finished: BigFatLM -- Make Vocabulary ID's
Merging unigram count files: BigFatLM -- Make Vocabulary ID's
Copying HDFS file hdfs://rhl095.in.escapemg.com:54310/user/search/tmp/BigFatLM5204421244738246067 to /tmp/BigFatLM956014149429852912.vocab1
Oct 11, 2011 9:22:50 PM bigfat.hadoop.SortUtils sortInPlace
INFO: Running external sort: sort -n -r -k2 -t -o /tmp/BigFatLM956014149429852912.vocab1 /tmp/BigFatLM956014149429852912.vocab1
Assigning vocab IDs for: BigFatLM -- Make Vocabulary ID's
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1937)
at bigfat.step1.VocabIteration.run(VocabIteration.java:79)
at bigfat.BigFatLM.run(BigFatLM.java:115)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
at bigfat.BigFatLM.main(BigFatLM.java:140)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156)

[jhclark]

Could you say a bit more about this error. A few questions:

• What OS are you running?
• How big is your cluster?
• How much data are you testing on?