I'm on a road block trying to understand why Spark doesn't work for a colleague of mine on his Windows 7 laptop. I have pretty much the same setup and everything works fine.
I googled the error message and didn't get anything that resovled it. Here is the exception message (after running spark 1.3.1 vanilla installation prebuilt for Hadoop 2.4) JDK is 1.7 64 bit akka.actor.ActorInitializationException: exception during creation at akka.actor.ActorInitializationException$.apply(Actor.scala:164) at akka.actor.ActorCell.create(ActorCell.scala:596) at akka.actor.ActorCell.invokeAll$1(ActorCell.scala:456) at akka.actor.ActorCell.systemInvoke(ActorCell.scala:478) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processAllSystemMessages(Mailbox.scala:263) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:219) at akka.dispatch.ForkJoinExecutorConfigurator$AkkaForkJoinTask.exec(AbstractDispatcher.scala:393) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1339) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107) Caused by: akka.actor.ActorNotFound:* Actor not found for: ActorSelection[Anchor(akka://sparkDriver/deadLetters), Path(/)* *]* at akka.actor.ActorSelection$$anonfun$resolveOne$1.apply(ActorSelection.scala:65) at akka.actor.ActorSelection$$anonfun$resolveOne$1.apply(ActorSelection.scala:63) at scala.concurrent.impl.CallbackRunnable.run(Promise.scala:32) at akka.dispatch.BatchingExecutor$Batch$$anonfun$run$1.processBatch$1(BatchingExecutor.scala:67) at akka.dispatch.BatchingExecutor$Batch$$anonfun$run$1.apply$mcV$sp(BatchingExecutor.scala:82) at akka.dispatch.BatchingExecutor$Batch$$anonfun$run$1.apply(BatchingExecutor.scala:59) at akka.dispatch.BatchingExecutor$Batch$$anonfun$run$1.apply(BatchingExecutor.scala:59) at scala.concurrent.BlockContext$.withBlockContext(BlockContext.scala:72) at akka.dispatch.BatchingExecutor$Batch.run(BatchingExecutor.scala:58) at akka.dispatch.ExecutionContexts$sameThreadExecutionContext$.unbatchedExecute(Future.scala:74) at akka.dispatch.BatchingExecutor$class.execute(BatchingExecutor.scala:110) at akka.dispatch.ExecutionContexts$sameThreadExecutionContext$.execute(Future.scala:73) at scala.concurrent.impl.CallbackRunnable.executeWithValue(Promise.scala:40) at scala.concurrent.impl.Promise$DefaultPromise.scala$concurrent$impl$Promise$DefaultPromise$$dispatchOrAddCallb ack(Promise.scala:280) at scala.concurrent.impl.Promise$DefaultPromise.onComplete(Promise.scala:270) at akka.actor.ActorSelection.resolveOne(ActorSelection.scala:63) at akka.actor.ActorSelection.resolveOne(ActorSelection.scala:80) at org.apache.spark.util.AkkaUtils$.makeDriverRef(AkkaUtils.scala:221) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor.startDriverHeartbeater(Executor.scala:393) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor.<init>(Executor.scala:119) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.local.LocalActor.<init>(LocalBackend.scala:58) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.local.LocalBackend$$anonfun$start$1.apply(LocalBackend.scala:107) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.local.LocalBackend$$anonfun$start$1.apply(LocalBackend.scala:107) at akka.actor.TypedCreatorFunctionConsumer.produce(Props.scala:343) at akka.actor.Props.newActor(Props.scala:252) at akka.actor.ActorCell.newActor(ActorCell.scala:552) at akka.actor.ActorCell.create(ActorCell.scala:578) ... 9 more I have see this error mentioned, but for Linux, not windows: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Actor-not-found-td22265.html This one also doesn't seem to offer any resolution: https://groups.google.com/a/lists.datastax.com/forum/#!topic/spark-connector-user/UqCYeUpgGCU My assumption is that this is related to some resolving / IP conflicts etc, but I'm not sure. One difference that I did notice between my system and my friend's when I do ping localhost, I get 127.0.0.1 when he does it he gets ::1 I saw an issue about spark having problems with ipv6, and saw it was resolved only in 1.4, is that related? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6440