Hello, Not sure if i should post this here or on Cloudera's message board, but here goes. When I run EC2 using the latest CDH2 and Hadoop 0.20 (by settiing the env variables are hadoop-ec2), and launch a job hadoop jar ...
I get the following error 10/02/19 17:04:55 WARN mapred.JobClient: Use GenericOptionsParser for parsing the arguments. Applications should implement Tool for the same. org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: java.io.IOException: No valid local directories in property: mapred.local.dir at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getLocalPath(Configuration.java:975) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf.getLocalPath(JobConf.java:279) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.<init>(JobInProgress.java:256) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.<init>(JobInProgress.java:240) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.submitJob(JobTracker.java:3026) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:508) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:966) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:962) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:960) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:740) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Invoker.invoke(RPC.java:220) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.$Proxy0.submitJob(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJobInternal(JobClient.java:841) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.submit(Job.java:432) at org.godhuli.f.RHMR.submitAndMonitorJob(RHMR.java:195) but the value of mapred.local.dir is "/mnt/hadoop/mapred/local" Any ideas?