Try the workaround for Windows found here: http://qnalist.com/questions/4994960/run-spark-unit-test-on-windows-7.
This fix the issue when calling rdd.saveAsTextFile(..) for me with Spark v1.1.0 on windows 8.1 in local mode. Summary of steps: 1) download compiled winutils.exe from http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/28a57efb-082b-424b-8d9e-731b1fe135de/please-read-if-experiencing-job-failures?forum=hdinsight 2) put this file into d:\winutil\bin 3) add in code: System.setProperty("hadoop.home.dir", "d:\\winutil\\") -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/rdd-saveAsTextFile-problem-tp176p20546.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org