Hi Jay, Here client is trying to create a staging directory in local file system, which actually should create in HDFS.
Could you check whether do you have configured "fs.defaultFS" configuration in client with the HDFS. Thanks Devaraj k From: Jay Vyas [mailto:jayunit...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 July 2013 04:12 To: common-u...@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Staging directory ENOTDIR error. Hi , I'm getting an ungoogleable exception, never seen this before. This is on a hadoop 1.1. cluster... It appears that its permissions related... Any thoughts as to how this could crop up? I assume its a bug in my filesystem, but not sure. 13/07/11 18:39:43 ERROR security.UserGroupInformation: PriviledgedActionException as:root cause:ENOTDIR: Not a directory ENOTDIR: Not a directory at org.apache.hadoop.io.nativeio.NativeIO.chmod(Native Method) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.execSetPermission(FileUtil.java:699) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.setPermission(FileUtil.java:654) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.setPermission(RawLocalFileSystem.java:509) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.mkdirs(RawLocalFileSystem.java:344) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FilterFileSystem.mkdirs(FilterFileSystem.java:189) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobSubmissionFiles.getStagingDir(JobSubmissionFiles.java:116) -- Jay Vyas http://jayunit100.blogspot.com