It is a permission issue. Are you sure that the account "hadoop" has read and write access to /usr/local/* directories?
The installation of Hadoop has always been effortless for me. Just follow the instructions step by step given on: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/stable/single_node_setup.html On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Ashish Tamrakar <[email protected]>wrote: > I am having a problem starting my hadoop. i setup my for my single-node > cluster. please help me to solve this out!!!! > > hadoop@ashishpc:~$ /usr/local/hadoop/bin/start-all.sh > starting namenode, logging to > /usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-namenode-ashishpc.out > /usr/local/hadoop/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh: line 117: > /usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-namenode-ashishpc.out: > Permission denied > head: cannot open > `/usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-namenode-ashishpc.out' for > reading: No such file or directory > localhost: starting datanode, logging to > /usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-datanode-ashishpc.out > localhost: /usr/local/hadoop/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh: line 117: > /usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-datanode-ashishpc.out: > Permission denied > localhost: head: cannot open > `/usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-datanode-ashishpc.out' for > reading: No such file or directory > localhost: starting secondarynamenode, logging to > /usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-secondarynamenode-ashishpc.out > localhost: /usr/local/hadoop/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh: line 117: > /usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-secondarynamenode-ashishpc.out: > Permission denied > localhost: head: cannot open > > `/usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-secondarynamenode-ashishpc.out' > for reading: No such file or directory > starting jobtracker, logging to > /usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-jobtracker-ashishpc.out > /usr/local/hadoop/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh: line 117: > /usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-jobtracker-ashishpc.out: > Permission denied > head: cannot open > `/usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-jobtracker-ashishpc.out' for > reading: No such file or directory > localhost: starting tasktracker, logging to > /usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-tasktracker-ashishpc.out > localhost: /usr/local/hadoop/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh: line 117: > /usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-tasktracker-ashishpc.out: > Permission denied > localhost: head: cannot open > `/usr/local/hadoop/bin/../logs/hadoop-hadoop-tasktracker-ashishpc.out' for > reading: No such file or directory >
