as a follow up to this, I think there might be some problem with the classpath and the jar files:
2013-07-31 19:51:53,270 INFO org.apache.giraph.graph.GraphTaskManager: setup: classpath @ /Users/hammer/Dev/hadoop/data/hadoop/mapred/taskTracker/hammer/distcache/3182842244657980528_-2099658804_903563705/localhost/tmp/hadoop-hammer/mapred/staging/hammer/.staging/job_201307302017_0010/libjars/SOCCPartitioning-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar for job Giraph: org.apache.giraph.benchmark.WeightedPageRankComputation 2013-07-31 19:51:53,367 INFO org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: createCandidateStamp: Made the directory /user/martella/zk 2013-07-31 19:51:53,369 INFO org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: createCandidateStamp: Creating my filestamp /user/martella/zk/_task/localhost. 0 2013-07-31 19:51:53,378 INFO org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: getZooKeeperServerList: Got [localhost.] 1 hosts from 1 candidates when 1 required (polling period is 3000) on attempt 0 2013-07-31 19:51:53,379 INFO org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: createZooKeeperServerList: Creating the final ZooKeeper file '/user/martella/zk/zkServerList_localhost. 0 ' 2013-07-31 19:51:53,383 INFO org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: getZooKeeperServerList: For task 0, got file 'zkServerList_localhost. 0 ' (polling period is 3000) 2013-07-31 19:51:53,383 INFO org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: getZooKeeperServerList: Found [localhost., 0] 2 hosts in filename 'zkServerList_localhost. 0 ' 2013-07-31 19:51:53,385 INFO org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: onlineZooKeeperServers: Trying to delete old directory /Users/hammer/Dev/hadoop/data/hadoop/mapred/taskTracker/hammer/jobcache/job_201307302017_0010/work/_bspZooKeeper 2013-07-31 19:51:53,390 INFO org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: generateZooKeeperConfigFile: Creating file /Users/hammer/Dev/hadoop/data/hadoop/mapred/taskTracker/hammer/jobcache/job_201307302017_0010/work/_bspZooKeeper/zoo.cfg in /Users/hammer/Dev/hadoop/data/hadoop/mapred/taskTracker/hammer/jobcache/job_201307302017_0010/work/_bspZooKeeper with base port 22181 2013-07-31 19:51:53,390 INFO org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: generateZooKeeperConfigFile: Make directory of _bspZooKeeper = true 2013-07-31 19:51:53,390 INFO org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: generateZooKeeperConfigFile: Delete of zoo.cfg = false 2013-07-31 19:51:53,392 INFO org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: onlineZooKeeperServers: Attempting to start ZooKeeper server with command [/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java, -Xmx512m, -XX:ParallelGCThreads=4, -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC, -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=70, -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=100, -cp, /Users/hammer/Dev/hadoop/data/hadoop/mapred/taskTracker/hammer/distcache/3182842244657980528_-2099658804_903563705/localhost/tmp/hadoop-hammer/mapred/staging/hammer/.staging/job_201307302017_0010/libjars/SOCCPartitioning-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar, org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain, /Users/hammer/Dev/hadoop/data/hadoop/mapred/taskTracker/hammer/jobcache/job_201307302017_0010/work/_bspZooKeeper/zoo.cfg] in directory /Users/hammer/Dev/hadoop/data/hadoop/mapred/taskTracker/hammer/jobcache/job_201307302017_0010/work/_bspZooKeeper 2013-07-31 19:51:53,401 INFO org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: onlineZooKeeperServers: Shutdown hook added. 2013-07-31 19:51:53,401 INFO org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: onlineZooKeeperServers: Connect attempt 0 of 10 max trying to connect to localhost.:22181 with poll msecs = 3000 2013-07-31 19:51:53,409 WARN org.apache.giraph.zk.ZooKeeperManager: onlineZooKeeperServers: Got ConnectException java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused the jar used to run ZK is actually the jar with my application (used with -libjars and put in HADOOP_CLASSPATH). The question is why suddenly this is creating a problem... On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Claudio Martella < claudio.marte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am I the only one that recently is experiencing problems with zookeeper? I > get the workers failing to connect to zookeeper. I presume it is not > starting at all. I'm using trunk and hadoop 1.0.3. Used to work smoothly. > > -- > Claudio Martella > claudio.marte...@gmail.com > -- Claudio Martella claudio.marte...@gmail.com