Hi, I had this problem and after days of trying I found the answers in the new manual by Michael Noll. He uses different ports and small changes to the configuration file, it worked for me on the first try. This is where the manual is:
http://www.michael-noll.com/wiki/Running_Hadoop_On_Ubuntu_Linux_(Multi-Node_Cluster) Michael -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Hadoop-distributed-mode-tp1428282p1735757.html Sent from the Hadoop lucene-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.