Thanks, I did run these commands,
set mapred.system.dir to "/mapred/system" in mapred-site.xml sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -mkdir /mapred/system sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -chown mapred /mapred/system where does the path /mapred/system get created? It did now show up when I did a find from / The jobtracker is now running BTW. ahmednagy wrote: > > Check the owner of the file. Might be a problem with the owner. The owner > of the file has to be the same as the one who creates the hadoop processes > otherwise it will not work. I faced that problem recently. > Regards > Ahmed Nagy > > > danoomistmatiste wrote: >> >> The jobtracker is failing to startup with this messaage, >> >> 2011-02-15 03:02:31,420 WARN org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker: Failed >> to operate on mapred.system.dir >> (hdfs://master:54310/tmp/hadoop-mapred/mapred/system) because of >> permissions. >> >> >> The permissions on the mapred and system directories are set to 777. >> Has anyone encountered this before? >> > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/jobtracker-not-starting-up-tp30934066p30936184.html Sent from the Hadoop core-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
