Maybe the conf file is missing or no privilege to access or there is something wrong about the format of your conf files (hdfs-site, core-site, mapred-site). You can double check them. Also probably the typo of the <property></property> tag or something like that.
2013/7/23 Ashish Umrani <ashish.umr...@gmail.com> > Hi There, > > First of all, sorry if I am asking some stupid question. Myself being new > to the Hadoop environment , am finding it a bit difficult to figure out why > its failing > > I have installed hadoop 1.2, based on instructions given in the folllowing > link > > http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-single-node-cluster/ > > All went well and I could do the start-all.sh and the jps command does > show all 5 process to be present. > > However when I try to do > > hadoop fs -ls > > I get the following error > > hduser@ashish-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:/usr/local/hadoop/conf$ hadoop > fs -ls > Warning: $HADOOP_HOME is deprecated. > > 13/07/23 05:55:06 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not > <property> > 13/07/23 05:55:06 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not > <property> > 13/07/23 05:55:06 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not > <property> > 13/07/23 05:55:06 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not > <property> > 13/07/23 05:55:06 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not > <property> > 13/07/23 05:55:06 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not > <property> > ls: Cannot access .: No such file or directory. > hduser@ashish-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:/usr/local/hadoop/conf$ > > > > Can someone help me figure out whats the issue in my installation > > > Regards > ashish > -- ------ Yexi Jiang, ECS 251, yjian...@cs.fiu.edu School of Computer and Information Science, Florida International University Homepage: http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~yjian004/
