From the error message, it seems some of the dependent jar file is missing from your storm lib directory.
From: Kushan Maskey [mailto:kushan.mas...@mmillerassociates.com] Sent: 19 August 2014 02:29 To: user@storm.incubator.apache.org Subject: Supervisor keeps crashing I have two servers in which supervisor is running. Once of the runs fine as far as I know until now. But the other one keep shuts it down and tries to restart it again unsuccessfully with the following error message. Can anyone please help me? Thanks. 2014-08-18 20:56:22 b.s.d.supervisor [INFO] Shutting down and clearing state for id 3b3df13a-085c-472c-8adb-e67e12703da3. Current supervisor time: 1408395382. State: :disallowed, Heartbeat: #backtype.storm.daemon.common.WorkerHeartbeat{:time-secs 1408387624, :storm-id "CEXPStormTopology-17-1408387614", :executors #{[5 5] [9 9] [13 13] [17 17] [-1 -1] [1 1]}, :port 6721} 2014-08-18 20:56:22 b.s.d.supervisor [INFO] Shutting down 2cde2ba9-ea17-4924-bea7-2361dcf4f6a1:3b3df13a-085c-472c-8adb-e67e12703da3 2014-08-18 20:56:22 b.s.event [ERROR] Error when processing event java.io.IOException: . doesn't exist. at org.apache.commons.exec.DefaultExecutor.execute(DefaultExecutor.java:157) ~[commons-exec-1.1.jar:1.1] at org.apache.commons.exec.DefaultExecutor.execute(DefaultExecutor.java:147) ~[commons-exec-1.1.jar:1.1] at backtype.storm.util$exec_command_BANG_.invoke(util.clj:378) ~[storm-core-0.9.2-incubating.jar:0.9.2-incubating] at backtype.storm.util$ensure_process_killed_BANG_.invoke(util.clj:394) ~[storm-core-0.9.2-incubating.jar:0.9.2-incubating] at backtype.storm.daemon.supervisor$shutdown_worker.invoke(supervisor.clj:175) ~[storm-core-0.9.2-incubating.jar:0.9.2-incubating] at backtype.storm.daemon.supervisor$sync_processes.invoke(supervisor.clj:240) ~[storm-core-0.9.2-incubating.jar:0.9.2-incubating] at clojure.lang.AFn.applyToHelper(AFn.java:161) [clojure-1.5.1.jar:na] at clojure.lang.AFn.applyTo(AFn.java:151) [clojure-1.5.1.jar:na] at clojure.core$apply.invoke(core.clj:619) ~[clojure-1.5.1.jar:na] at clojure.core$partial$fn__4190.doInvoke(core.clj:2396) ~[clojure-1.5.1.jar:na] at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:397) ~[clojure-1.5.1.jar:na] at backtype.storm.event$event_manager$fn__2378.invoke(event.clj:39) ~[storm-core-0.9.2-incubating.jar:0.9.2-incubating] at clojure.lang.AFn.run(AFn.java:24) [clojure-1.5.1.jar:na] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) [na:1.7.0_51] 2014-08-18 20:56:22 b.s.util [INFO] Halting process: ("Error when processing an event") -- Kushan Maskey 817.403.7500