Distribution tar.gz does not contain etc/hadoop/core-site.xml -------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-8055 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8055 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Components: build Affects Versions: 0.24.0 Reporter: Eric Charles A dist built from trunk (0.24.0-SNAPSHOT) does not contain a core-site.xml in $HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop/ folder. $HADOOP_HOME/sbin/start-dfs.sh without that folder gives an exception Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI has an authority component at java.io.File.<init>(File.java:368) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NNStorage.getStorageDirectory(NNStorage.java:310) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.init(FSEditLog.java:178) ... Manually creating $HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop/core-site.xml solves this problem and hadoop starts fine. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira