urgent, error: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory

2010-12-08 Thread Richard Zhang
Hi Guys: I am just installation the hadoop 0.21.0 in a single node cluster. I encounter the following error when I run bin/hadoop namenode -format 10/12/08 16:27:22 ERROR namenode.NameNode: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory /your/path/to/hadoop/tmp/dir/hadoop-hadoop/dfs/name/current

Re: urgent, error: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory

2010-12-08 Thread james warren
Hi Richard - First thing that comes to mind is a permissions issue. Can you verify that your directories along the desired namenode path are writable by the appropriate user(s)? HTH, -James On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Richard Zhang richardtec...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Guys: I am just

Re: urgent, error: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory

2010-12-08 Thread Richard Zhang
Hi James: I verified that I have the following permission set for the path: ls -l tmp/dir/hadoop-hadoop/dfs/hadoop total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 hadoop hadoop 4096 2010-12-08 15:56 current Thanks. Richard On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:50 PM, james warren ja...@rockyou.com wrote: Hi Richard - First thing

Re: urgent, error: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory

2010-12-08 Thread Richard Zhang
would that be the reason that 54310 port is not open? I just used * iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 54310 -j ACCEPT to open the port. But it seems the same erorr exists. Richard * On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Richard Zhang richardtec...@gmail.comwrote: Hi James: I verified that I have the

Re: urgent, error: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory

2010-12-08 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
it seems that you are looking at 2 different directories: first post: /your/path/to/hadoop/tmp/dir/hadoop-hadoop/dfs/name/current second: ls -l tmp/dir/hadoop-hadoop/dfs/hadoop --   Take care, Konstantin (Cos) Boudnik On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 14:19, Richard Zhang

Re: urgent, error: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory

2010-12-08 Thread Richard Zhang
Hi: /your/path/to/hadoop represents the location where hadoop is installed. BTW, I believe this is a file writing permission problem. Because I use the same *-site.xml setting to install with root and it works. But when I use the dedicated user hadoop, it always introduces this problem. But I do

Re: urgent, error: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory

2010-12-08 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
Yeah, I figured that match. What I was referring to is the ending of the paths: .../hadoop-hadoop/dfs/name/current .../hadoop-hadoop/dfs/hadoop They are different --   Take care, Konstantin (Cos) Boudnik On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 15:55, Richard Zhang richardtec...@gmail.com wrote: Hi:

Re: urgent, error: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory

2010-12-08 Thread Richard Zhang
oh, sorry. I corrected that typo hadoop$ ls tmp/dir/hadoop-hadoop/dfs/name/current -l total 0 hadoop$ ls tmp/dir/hadoop-hadoop/dfs/name -l total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 hadoop hadoop 4096 2010-12-08 22:17 current Even I remove the tmp I manually created and set all the Hadoop package to be 777. Then I run