I'm wondering if this is rather a hadoop configuration problem or a problem between pig and hadoop?
Here is the complete error logging: Error before Pig is launched ---------------------------- ERROR 2998: Unhandled internal error. org/apache/commons/configuration/C onfiguration java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/configuration/Configu ration at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.DefaultMetricsSystem.<init>(De faultMetricsSystem.java:37) at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.DefaultMetricsSystem.<clinit>( DefaultMetricsSystem.java:34) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UgiInstrumentation.create(UgiInstr umentation.java:51) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.initialize(Us erGroupInformation.java:196) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.ensureInitial ized(UserGroupInformation.java:159) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.isSecurityEna bled(UserGroupInformation.java:216) at org.apache.hadoop.security.KerberosName.<clinit>(KerberosName .java:83) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.initialize(Us erGroupInformation.java:189) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.ensureInitial ized(UserGroupInformation.java:159) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.isSecurityEna bled(UserGroupInformation.java:216) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.getLoginUser( UserGroupInformation.java:409) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser(UserGroupInformation.java:395) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache$Key.<init>(FileSystem.java:1418) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.get(FileSystem.java:1319) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:226) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:109) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.datastorage.HDataStorage.init(HDataStorage.java:72) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.datastorage.HDataStorage.<init>(HDataStorage.java:58) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.HExecutionEngine.init(HExecutionEngine.java:196) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.HExecutionEngine.init(HExecutionEngine.java:116) at org.apache.pig.impl.PigContext.connect(PigContext.java:184) at org.apache.pig.PigServer.<init>(PigServer.java:243) at org.apache.pig.PigServer.<init>(PigServer.java:228) at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt.<init>(Grunt.java:46) at org.apache.pig.Main.run(Main.java:484) at org.apache.pig.Main.main(Main.java:108) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.configuration.Configuration 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) ... 26 more ================================================================================ On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Marco Cadetg <ma...@zattoo.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I do have a problem with pig 9.0 and hadoop 0.20.204: > http://hadoop.apache.org/common/releases.html#5+Sep%2C+2011%3A+release+0.20.204.0+available > > I tried several things but I am unable to use pig with that version of > hadoop. When using the pig without hadoop version build via ant > jar-withouthadoop I get the following error: > > 2011-09-13 11:16:42,919 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.Main - ERROR 2998: > Unhandled internal error. org/apache/commons/configuration/Configuration > > I'm using the following pig classpath: > /home/marco/hadoop/current/conf:/home/marco/hadoop/current/hadoop-core-0.20.204.0.jar:/home/marco/pig/current/pig-withouthadoop.jar > > Thanks for your help! > -Marco > >