Dear All: Request help/advise as I am unable to start Hadoop. Performed follow steps in Ubuntu 14.10
1. ssh localhost2. Did following exports in user defined hadoop.sh and ran it succesfully 1. EXPORT JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 2. EXPORT HADOOP_INSTALL=/home/anand_vihar/hadoop-2.6.0 3. EXPORT PATH=:$PATH:$HADOOP_INSTALL/sbin:$HADOOP_INSTALL/bin 3. Tested hadoop version succesfully4. Ran $hadoop namenode -format successfully5. Modified core-site.xml, hdfs-site.xml and mapred-site.xml to pseudo-distributed mode in /home/anand_vihar/conf directory6. Ran $start-dfs.sh --config /home/anand_vihar/conf Got error JAVA_HOME not set and slaves not found in /conf. If I echo $JAVA_HOME it is pointing to /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd6, correctly as set. Help appreciated. Thanks Regards, Anand Murali 11/7, 'Anand Vihar', Kandasamy St, MylaporeChennai - 600 004, IndiaPh: (044)- 28474593/ 43526162 (voicemail)