it seems that you are running hadoop locally on windows using cygwin and having a problem of permission.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Raj K Singh http://www.rajkrrsingh.blogspot.com Mobile Tel: +91 (0)9899821370 On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Pradeep Singh <hadoop.guy0...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all , > I am new to Hadoop .I am not sure if my question is stupid or not . But > still . > I am running wordcount example and getting below error : > Command to run : > bin/hadoop jar hadoop-examples-1.2.1.jar WordCount /user/root/input/* > /user/root/output > > MapAttempt TASK_TYPE="SETUP" TASKID="task_201308151750_0011_m_000003" > TASK_ATTEMPT_ID="attempt_201308151750_0011_m_000003_1" TASK_STATUS="FAILED" > FINISH_TIME="1376572981053" HOSTNAME="pradeep-pc" > ERROR="java\.lang\.Throwable: Child Error > at org\.apache\.hadoop\.mapred\.TaskRunner\.run(TaskRunner\.java:271) > Also i have attachmet my log file from dfs > Regards > Pradeep >