I managed to fix this issue.   It had to do with permissions on the default
directory.  

danoomistmatiste wrote:
> 
> Hi,  I have setup a Hadoop cluster as per the instructions for CDH3.  
> When I try to start the datanode on the slave, I get this error,
> 
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode:
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid URI for NameNode address
> (check fs.defaultFS): file:/// has no authority.
> 
> I have setup the right parameters in core-site.xml
> where <master> is the IP address where the namenode is running
> 
> <configuration>
>  <property>
>   <name>fs.default.name</name>
>   <value>hdfs://<master>:54310</value>
> </property>
> 
> 
> 

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