I have a 2-node Fedora system and in cluster mode, I have the following issue that I can't resolve.
Hadoop 1.0.3 I'm running with filesystem, file:/// and invoking the simple 'grep' example hadoop jar hadoop-examples-1.0.3.jar grep inputdir outputdir simple-pattern The initiator displays Error initializing attempt_201207201103_0003_m_000004_0: java.io.FileNotFoundException: File file:/tmp/hadoop-hadoop/mapred/system/job_201207201103_0003/jobToken does not exist. getFileStatus(RawLocalFileSystem.java) localizeJobTokenFile(TaskTracker.java:4268) initializeJob(TaskTracker.java:1177) localizeJob run The /tmp/hadoop-hadoop/mapred/system directory only contains a ' jobtracker.info' file (on all systems) On the target system, in the tasktracker log file, I get the following: 2012-07-20 11:35:59,954 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: Got heartbeatResponse from JobTracker with responseId: 641 and 1 actions 2012-07-20 11:35:59,954 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: LaunchTaskAction (registerTask): attempt_201207201103_0003_m_000006_0 task's state:UNASSIGNED 2012-07-20 11:35:59,954 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: Trying to launch : attempt_201207201103_0003_m_000006_0 which needs 1 slots 2012-07-20 11:35:59,954 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: In TaskLauncher, current free slots : 2 and trying to launch attempt_201207201103_0003_m_000006_0 which needs 1 slots 2012-07-20 11:35:59,955 WARN org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: Error initializing attempt_201207201103_0003_m_000006_0: java.io.FileNotFoundException: File file:/tmp/hadoop-hadoop/mapred/system/job_201207201103_0003/jobToken does not exist. at org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.getFileStatus(RawLocalFileSystem.java:397) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FilterFileSystem.getFileStatus(FilterFileSystem.java:251) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.localizeJobTokenFile(TaskTracker.java:4268) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.initializeJob(TaskTracker.java:1177) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.localizeJob(TaskTracker.java:1118) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$5.run(TaskTracker.java:2430) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) 2012-07-20 11:35:59,955 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskStatus: Trying to set finish time for task attempt_201207201103_0003_m_000006_0 when no start time is set, stackTrace is : java.lang.Exception at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskStatus.setFinishTime(TaskStatus.java:145) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$TaskInProgress.kill(TaskTracker.java:3142) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$5.run(TaskTracker.java:2440) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) On both systems, ownership of all files directories under /tmp/hadoop-hadoop is the user/group hadoop/hadoop. Any ideas? Thanks -- Steve Sonnenberg