Are you able to run the hdfs filesystem shell commands? Can you try adding the port number of the namenode in the URI hdfs://localhost/user/hadoop-user/input/mapred-site.xml ? -Ayon See My Photos on Flickr Also check out my Blog for answers to commonly asked questions.
________________________________ From: Yang Xiaoliang <yangxiaoliang2...@gmail.com> To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org; Ayon Sinha <ayonsi...@yahoo.com> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:51 AM Subject: Re: FileSystemCat ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: yes , I sure of that. 2011/5/23, Ayon Sinha <ayonsi...@yahoo.com>: > Is yours hdfs running? > > -Ayon > See My Photos on Flickr > Also check out my Blog for answers to commonly asked questions. > > > > ________________________________ > From: Yang Xiaoliang <yangxiaoliang2...@gmail.com> > To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org > Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 7:23 AM > Subject: FileSystemCat ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: > > Hi All, > > I am just reading the book *Hadoop: The Definitive Guide *by Tom White, > there is an example for the *FileSystem* class in chapter 3, > example3-2: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > public class FileSystemCat { > > import java.io.InputStream; > import java.net.URI; > > import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration; > import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem; > import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path; > import org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils; > > public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { > String uri = args[0]; > Configuration conf = new Configuration(); > FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(URI.create(uri), conf); > InputStream in = null; > try { > in = fs.open(new Path(uri)); > IOUtils.copyBytes(in, System.out, 4096, false); > } finally { > IOUtils.closeStream(in); > } > } > } > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I run the program as follows: > % export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=. > % hadoop FileSystem.Cat > hdfs://localhost/user/hadoop-user/input/mapred-site.xml > > and then, what i got was as fllows: > > ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: localhost/127.0.0.1:8020. Already > tried 0 time(s). > 11/05/22 20:45:53 INFO ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: localhost/ > 127.0.0.1:8020. Already tried 1 time(s). > 11/05/22 20:45:53 INFO ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: localhost/ > 127.0.0.1:8020. Already tried 1 time(s). > 11/05/22 20:45:54 INFO ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: localhost/ > 127.0.0.1:8020. Already tried 2 time(s). > .................................... > > can anyone help?