hadoop-setup-single-node.sh from DEB fails with chown permission error on Ubuntu 11.10 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-8182 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8182 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Components: build Affects Versions: 1.0.1 Environment: Ubuntu 11.10 Reporter: Ivan Kuznetsov Installed Hadoop 1.0.1 from amd64 DEB package. Executed: sudo /usr/sbin/hadoop-setup-single-node.sh It invokes /usr/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh where in line 98 chown $HADOOP_IDENT_STRING $HADOOP_LOG_DIR attempts to execute 'chown root /var/log/hadoop/root' as user hduser, resulting in * Starting Apache Hadoop Name Node server hadoop-namenode chown: changing ownership of `/var/log/hadoop/root': Operation not permitted and * Starting Apache Hadoop Data Node server hadoop-datanode chown: changing ownership of `/var/log/hadoop/root': Operation not permitted As a result, setup fails. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira