Hi, I used AWS EMR to create a hadoop vm and do my work.I got the following error: com.google.common.util.concurrent.UncheckedExecutionException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: /tmp is a symbolic link to a directory STATUS: 500 The /tmp directory in an AWS EMR EC2 instance is a symbolic link and caused this error. >From my google search:From >http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/core-default.html"Setting > this to false causes an exception to be thrown upon encountering a symlink." >However, the default value is already set to true.Appreciate anyone facing >this issue can share their experience. Thanks! Kelly