NullPointerException in CodecUtils with GzipCodec

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java.io.IOException: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.apache.tez.runtime.library.common.shuffle.ShuffleUtils.shuffleToMemory(ShuffleUtils.java:142)
    at org.apache.tez.runtime.library.common.shuffle.orderedgrouped.FetcherOrderedGrouped.copyMapOutput(FetcherOrderedGrouped.java:550)
    at org.apache.tez.runtime.library.common.shuffle.orderedgrouped.FetcherOrderedGrouped.copyFromHost(FetcherOrderedGrouped.java:283)
    at org.apache.tez.runtime.library.common.shuffle.orderedgrouped.FetcherOrderedGrouped.fetchNext(FetcherOrderedGrouped.java:182)
    at org.apache.tez.runtime.library.common.shuffle.orderedgrouped.FetcherOrderedGrouped.callInternal(FetcherOrderedGrouped.java:194)
    at org.apache.tez.runtime.library.common.shuffle.orderedgrouped.FetcherOrderedGrouped.callInternal(FetcherOrderedGrouped.java:57)
    at org.apache.tez.common.CallableWithNdc.call(CallableWithNdc.java:36)
    at com.google.common.util.concurrent.TrustedListenableFutureTask$TrustedFutureInterruptibleTask.runInterruptibly(TrustedListenableFutureTask.java:125)
    at com.google.common.util.concurrent.InterruptibleTask.run(InterruptibleTask.java:69)
    at com.google.common.util.concurrent.TrustedListenableFutureTask.run(TrustedListenableFutureTask.java:78)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at java.util.Hashtable.get(Hashtable.java:363)
    at java.util.Properties.getProperty(Properties.java:969)
    at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.get(Configuration.java:1200)
    at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getTrimmed(Configuration.java:1254)
    at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getInt(Configuration.java:1479)
    at org.apache.tez.runtime.library.utils.CodecUtils.getDecompressedInputStreamWithBufferSize(CodecUtils.java:81)
    at org.apache.tez.runtime.library.common.sort.impl.IFile$Reader.readToMemory(IFile.java:824)
    at org.apache.tez.runtime.library.common.shuffle.ShuffleUtils.shuffleToMemory(ShuffleUtils.java:121)
    ... 12 more