On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Tarandeep Singh <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Vladimir Klimontovich <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Maybe, hadoop running MR jobs using different user? For example, if you
> > followed installation instructions
> > from official site or used rpm/deb packages hadoop using "hadoop" user to
> > run jobs. And you probably using different user
> > for running your test program.
> >
> >
> Thanks Vladimir..
> I am not running hadoop as the "hadoop" user. Both my test program and
> hadoop are run using same user.
> From the exception, it is clear the DISPLAY variable is set properly, but
> java is not able to connect to the X server (not sure either some
> permission
> issues or what)
>

My guess is you're either missing the XAUTHORITY variable, or it's pointed
at a file that the user executing the task can't read.

(as a side note, this seems like a really bad idea - why are your hadoop
tasks trying to talk to an X11 server in the first place?)

-Todd


>
>
>
> > On Jan 18, 2010, at 12:41 AM, Tarandeep Singh wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am running a MR job that requires usage of some java.awt.* classes,
> > that
> > > can't be run in headless mode.
> > >
> > > Right now, I am running Hadoop in a single node cluster (my laptop)
> which
> > > has X11 server running. I have set up my ssh server and client to do
> X11
> > > forwarding.
> > >
> > > I ran the following java program to ensure that X11 forwarding is
> > working-
> > >
> > > public class Test
> > >  throws Exception
> > > {
> > >  public static void main( String[] args)
> > >  {
> > >    Process p = runtime.getRuntime( ).exec( "/usr/bin/xterm");
> > >    p.waitFor( );
> > >  }
> > > }
> > >
> > > I ran it as-
> > > ssh localhost "java Test"
> > > and it worked confirming that X11 forwarding is working over SSH.
> > >
> > > However, when I run a Map Reduce program that uses java.awt.* classes
> > > (trying to create an object that extends Frame), I keep getting this
> > error-
> > >
> > > java.lang.InternalError- Can't connect to X11 window server using
> > > 'localhost:10.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable
> > >
> > > I printed the value of DISPLAY variable-
> > >
> > > echo $DISPLAY
> > > :0.0
> > > ssh localhost
> > > echo $DISPLAY
> > > localhost:10.0
> > >
> > > I understand this is more of a SSH and X11 related issue, but X11
> > forwarding
> > > is working over SSH in my standalone programs, but not in MR program.
> > That's
> > > why I am posting the problem here.
> > >
> > > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tarandeep
> >
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> >
> >
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