NoClassDefFoundError while running distcp/archive -------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-7941 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7941 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Components: build Affects Versions: 0.23.1 Reporter: Ramya Sunil Fix For: 0.23.1 bin/hadoop distcp {noformat} Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/tools/DistCp Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248) Could not find the main class: org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp. Program will exit. {noformat} Same is the case while running 'bin/hadoop archive' -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira