Hello Abdelrahman, Are you able to ping from one machine to other with the configured hostname?
configure both the hostnames in /etc/hosts file properly and try. Regards, Uma ----- Original Message ----- From: Abdelrahman Kamel <abdouka...@gmail.com> Date: Monday, September 26, 2011 8:47 pm Subject: Too many fetch failures. Help! To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org > Hi, > This is my first post here. > I'm new to Hadoop. > I've already installed Hadoop on 2 Ubuntu boxes (one is both master > andslave and the other is only slave). > When I run a Wordcount example on 5 small txt files, the process never > completes and I get a "Too many fetch failures" error on my terminal. > If you can help me, I cant post my terminal's output and any log files > needed. > Great thanks. > > -- > Abdelrahman Kamel >