If you type ‘whoami’ in the terminal, and it responds with ‘root’ then you’re the superuser. However, as mentioned below, I don’t think its a relevant factor.
> On Mar 10, 2016, at 12:02 PM, Aida Tefera <aida1.tef...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Tristan, > > I'm afraid I wouldn't know whether I'm running it as super user. > > I have java version 1.8.0_73 and SCALA version 2.11.7 > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 9 Mar 2016, at 21:58, 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org
