I found in my fstab I had accidentally disabled my swap partition
typing free, I saw I had no swap space. Then I followed this guide http://www.linux.com/feature/121916 and all was well. hth m -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cannot-run-program-%22bash%22%3A-java.io.IOException%3A-error%3D12%2C-Cannot-allocate-memory-tp19891450p20712473.html Sent from the Hadoop core-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.