Can you show us the classpath ? Cheers
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Srinivas Chamarthi < srinivas.chamar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have the following error while running 2.2.0 using cygwin. anyone can > help with the problem ? > > /cygdrive/c/hadoop-2.2.0/bin > $ ./hdfs namenode -format > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNode > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) > Could not find the main class: > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode. Program will exit. > Exception in thread "main" > > >
