customRDD.count

15/03/06 23:02:32 INFO TaskSchedulerImpl: Adding task set 0.0 with 1 tasks
15/03/06 23:02:32 ERROR TaskSetManager: Failed to serialize task 0, not attempting to retry it.
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at org.apache.spark.serializer.SerializationDebugger$ObjectStreamClassMethods$.getObjFieldValues$extension(SerializationDebugger.scala:240)

...

Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass$FieldReflector.getObjFieldValues(ObjectStreamClass.java:2050)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.getObjFieldValues(ObjectStreamClass.java:1252)
    ... 45 more

import custom.rdd.stuff
import org.apache.spark.SparkContext

val conf = sc.getConf
conf.set(custom, parameters)
sc.stop
sc2 = new SparkContext(conf)
val mapOfThings: Map[String, String] = ...
myRdd = customRDD(sc2, mapOfStuff)
myRdd.count

... (exception output) ...