Re: NoSuchElementException when creating a table

2007-11-07 Thread Michael Stack
Great. Thanks. I added it to the wiki. St.Ack Holger Stenzhorn wrote: Ok, here is my first shot at it: --- SNIP --- 3.1. Set the hadoop tmp directory property, hadoop.tmp.dir (For Windows/Cygwin users: If you do not include this variable in the site file then the value

Re: NoSuchElementException when creating a table

2007-11-07 Thread Holger Stenzhorn
Ok, here is my first shot at it: --- SNIP --- 3.1. Set the hadoop tmp directory property, hadoop.tmp.dir (For Windows/Cygwin users: If you do not include this variable in the site file then the value /tmp/hadoop-${user.name} from hadoop-default.xml is used. But since this does not work

Re: NoSuchElementException when creating a table

2007-11-07 Thread Michael Stack
Smile. Added local filesystem qualification to your text. The window/cygwin particular value for the JobTracker mapred.system.dir works fine when your filesystem is local but its illegal when you are running pseudo-distributed mode going via HDFS. Try specifying a full path for

Re: NoSuchElementException when creating a table

2007-11-06 Thread Holger Stenzhorn
Hi, As mentioned before, setting ${hadoop.tmp.dir} to a clean (or non-existent) directory works fine and the HBase starts nicely. ...also showing the mentioned .META. entries in the log file. So, no need to worry anymore - I guess... :-) Perhaps you could add to the 10 minutes page at point

Re: NoSuchElementException when creating a table

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Stack
Holger Stenzhorn wrote: Perhaps you could add to the 10 minutes page at point 3.1 an example for Unix and Windows/Cygwin to make the different path handling a bit clearer. Sounds like a good idea to me Holger. Would you mind taking a first cut at it since you've had first hand-experience of

Re: NoSuchElementException when creating a table

2007-11-02 Thread Holger Stenzhorn
Hi, remarks inline... Cheers, Holger Michael Stack wrote: Holger Stenzhorn wrote: Hi, It was (again) the mistake of the guy in front of the screen... Sorry! I did not set the hadoop.tmp.dir manually: So when I did set it, as done by you, it works. So, to be clear, if you'd followed the

Re: NoSuchElementException when creating a table

2007-11-02 Thread Michael Stack
Holger Stenzhorn wrote: .. Hadoop RunJar looks to contain the only use of hadoop.tmp.dir other than test and contrib code. It does the following: 'new File(new Configuration().get(hadoop.tmp.dir));' using java.io.File. In hbase, its all Path and hadoop FileSystem. So, yes, content of

Re: NoSuchElementException when creating a table

2007-11-01 Thread Michael Stack
Thanks for the detail Holger. Helps. Reading it, it looks like the cluster hasn't started up properly; the NoSuchElementException would seem to indicate that the basic startup deploying the catalog meta tables hasn't happened or has gotten mangled somehow. Whats in your hbase master log

Re: NoSuchElementException when creating a table

2007-11-01 Thread Holger Stenzhorn
Hi, Of course I yest another newbie but at least I have read the 10 minutes introduction... :-) So I am running HBase on a local filesystem. Attached you can find the (hopefully) necessary part of the master-log-file. Does not look to bad, right? BUT in the regionserver-log I get the

RE: NoSuchElementException when creating a table

2007-11-01 Thread Jim Kellerman
C:\hadoop is my installation C:\workspace\hadoop-commit is my checked out SVN tree which is current with trunk. /cygdrive/c$ diff hadoop/conf/hadoop-site.xml workspace/hadoop-commit/conf 7,17c7 property namehadoop.tmp.dir/name valueC:\hadoop\tmp/value descriptionA base for other