How are you setting up your M/R jobs? A while ago (0.92 I think) I added the necessary protobuf jars to the jar dependencies in HBase's TableMapReduceUtil.
-- Lars ________________________________ From: Amit Sela <am...@infolinks.com> To: user@hbase.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:39 AM Subject: Re: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.protobuf.Message I do. I tried with protobuf-java-2.4.0a.jar that ships with HBase 0.94, and also with the older version I had - protobuf-java-2.3.0.jar. Both times I got the same error.. On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Amit Sela <am...@infolinks.com> wrote: > >> 12/05/29 12:32:02 INFO mapred.JobClient: Task Id : > > attempt_201205291226_0001_r_000000_0, Status : FAILED > > Error: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.protobuf.Message > > You have protobuf on your CLASSPATH when the job runs? > > St.Ack >