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Benson Margulies updated HADOOP-6463: ------------------------------------- Status: Open (was: Patch Available) Let's see: 11 months from submission to first response (which I somehow missed) on a trivial patch that any concerned committer could adapt to current code in 5 seconds if the problem still exists. > Uninformative error message for some sort of file permission problem from the > hadoop command > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-6463 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6463 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Components: util > Affects Versions: 0.20.1 > Reporter: Benson Margulies > Attachments: HADOOP-6463.patch > > > It would be better if this error message would include the pathname for which > permission was denied. > benson@cn0:/u1/benson/hadoop-test$ /u1/hadoop/bin/hadoop jar > /u1/hadoop/hadoop-0.20.1-examples.jar wordcount /users/benson/gutenberg > /users/benson/gutenberg-output > Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Permission denied > at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method) > at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(File.java:1716) > at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1804) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:115) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira