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Alexander Yastrebov commented on HADOOP-8182:
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It seems that for temporary fix you may do:
sudo chmod g+w /var/log/hadoop/root/
sudo chmod g+w /var/log/hadoop/root/SecurityAuth.audit
> hadoop-setup-single-node.sh from DEB fails with chown permission error on
> Ubuntu 11.10
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>
> Key: HADOOP-8182
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8182
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: build
> Affects Versions: 1.0.1
> Environment: Ubuntu 11.10
> Reporter: Ivan Kuznetsov
>
> Installed Hadoop 1.0.1 from amd64 DEB package.
> Executed: sudo /usr/sbin/hadoop-setup-single-node.sh
> It invokes /usr/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh where in line 98
> chown $HADOOP_IDENT_STRING $HADOOP_LOG_DIR
> attempts to execute 'chown root /var/log/hadoop/root' as user hduser,
> resulting in
> * Starting Apache Hadoop Name Node server hadoop-namenode
>
>
> chown: changing ownership of `/var/log/hadoop/root': Operation not permitted
> and
> * Starting Apache Hadoop Data Node server hadoop-datanode
>
>
> chown: changing ownership of `/var/log/hadoop/root': Operation not permitted
> As a result, setup fails.
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