It should just work with these steps. You don't need to configure much. As mentioned, some settings on your machine are overriding default spark settings.
Even running as super-user should not be a problem. It works just fine as super-user as well. Can you tell us what version of Java you are using ? Also, can you post the contents of each file in conf directory. On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:28 AM, Tristan Nixon <st...@memeticlabs.org> wrote: > That’s very strange. I just un-set my SPARK_HOME env param, downloaded a > fresh 1.6.0 tarball, > unzipped it to local dir (~/Downloads), and it ran just fine - the driver > port is some randomly generated large number. > So SPARK_HOME is definitely not needed to run this. > > Aida, you are not running this as the super-user, are you? What versions > of Java & Scala do you have installed? > > > On Mar 9, 2016, at 3:53 PM, Aida Tefera <aida1.tef...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Jakob, > > > > Tried running the command env|grep SPARK; nothing comes back > > > > Tried env|grep Spark; which is the directory I created for Spark once I > downloaded the tgz file; comes back with PWD=/Users/aidatefera/Spark > > > > Tried running ./bin/spark-shell ; comes back with same error as below; > i.e could not bind to port 0 etc. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > >> On 9 Mar 2016, at 21:42, Jakob Odersky <ja...@odersky.com> wrote: > >> > >> As Tristan mentioned, it looks as though Spark is trying to bind on > >> port 0 and then 1 (which is not allowed). Could it be that some > >> environment variables from you previous installation attempts are > >> polluting your configuration? > >> What does running "env | grep SPARK" show you? > >> > >> Also, try running just "/bin/spark-shell" (without the --master > >> argument), maybe your shell is doing some funky stuff with the > >> brackets. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org > >
