Thanks for your help! However, as far as I can see, the user has those rights.
I have in mapred-ste.xml : <property> <name>mapred.local.dir</name> <value>/home/hadoopmachine/hadoop_data/mapred</value> <final>true</final> </property> and the directories look like this: hadoopmachine@debian:~$ cd /home/hadoopmachine/hadoop_data/mapred hadoopmachine@debian:~/hadoop_data/mapred$ ls -lah total 24K drwxr-xr-x 6 hadoopmachine hadoopmachine 4.0K Apr 3 12:11 . drwxr-xr-x 6 hadoopmachine hadoopmachine 4.0K Apr 3 08:26 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 hadoopmachine hadoopmachine 4.0K Apr 3 12:10 taskTracker drwxr-xr-x 2 hadoopmachine hadoopmachine 4.0K Apr 3 12:10 tt_log_tmp drwx------ 2 hadoopmachine hadoopmachine 4.0K Apr 3 12:10 ttprivate drwxr-xr-x 2 hadoopmachine hadoopmachine 4.0K Apr 3 08:28 userlogs hadoopmachine@debian:~/hadoop_data/mapred$ cd .. hadoopmachine@debian:~/hadoop_data$ ls -lah total 24K drwxr-xr-x 6 hadoopmachine hadoopmachine 4.0K Apr 3 08:26 . drwxr-xr-x 31 hadoopmachine hadoopmachine 4.0K Apr 3 12:08 .. drwxr-xr-x 6 hadoopmachine hadoopmachine 4.0K Apr 3 12:10 data drwxr-xr-x 6 hadoopmachine hadoopmachine 4.0K Apr 3 12:11 mapred drwxr-xr-x 5 hadoopmachine hadoopmachine 4.0K Apr 3 12:09 name drwxr-xr-x 4 hadoopmachine hadoopmachine 4.0K Apr 3 10:11 tmp As far as I can see (but my linux permissions knowledge might be failing) the user "hadoopmachine" has rights on these folders. I confirmed that that user is indeed the user that runs the TaskTracker. Are there any other things I could check? Regards, Bas On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Some of your TaskTrackers' mapred.local.dirs do not have proper r/w > permissions set on them. Make sure they are owned by the user that > runs the TT service and have read/write permission at least for that > user. > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Bas Hickendorff > <hickendorff...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> My map-reduce operation on Hadoop (running on Debian) is correctly >> starting and finding the input file. However, just after starting the >> map reduce, Hadoop tells me that it cannot find a file. Unfortunately, >> it does not state what file it cannot find, or where it is looking. >> Does someone now about what file error is? See below for the complete >> error. >> >> Since the java error is in the chmod() function (judging from the >> stack in the output), I assume it is a problem with the rights, but >> how do I know what rights to change if it gives me no path? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Bas >> >> >> >> >> The output of the job: >> >> >> hadoopmachine@debian:~$ ./hadoop-1.0.1/bin/hadoop jar >> hadooptest/main.jar nl.mydomain.hadoop.debian.test.Main >> /user/hadoopmachine/input /user/hadoopmachine/output >> Warning: $HADOOP_HOME is deprecated. >> >> 12/04/03 08:05:08 WARN mapred.JobClient: Use GenericOptionsParser for >> parsing the arguments. Applications should implement Tool for the >> same. >> ****hdfs://localhost:9000/user/hadoopmachine/input >> 12/04/03 08:05:08 INFO input.FileInputFormat: Total input paths to process : >> 1 >> 12/04/03 08:05:08 INFO mapred.JobClient: Running job: job_201204030722_0004 >> 12/04/03 08:05:09 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 0% reduce 0% >> 12/04/03 08:05:13 INFO mapred.JobClient: Task Id : >> attempt_201204030722_0004_m_000002_0, Status : FAILED >> Error initializing attempt_201204030722_0004_m_000002_0: >> ENOENT: No such file or directory >> at org.apache.hadoop.io.nativeio.NativeIO.chmod(Native Method) >> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.execSetPermission(FileUtil.java:692) >> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.setPermission(FileUtil.java:647) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.setPermission(RawLocalFileSystem.java:509) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.mkdirs(RawLocalFileSystem.java:344) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobLocalizer.initializeJobLogDir(JobLocalizer.java:239) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.DefaultTaskController.initializeJob(DefaultTaskController.java:196) >> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$4.run(TaskTracker.java:1226) >> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) >> at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:416) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1093) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.initializeJob(TaskTracker.java:1201) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.localizeJob(TaskTracker.java:1116) >> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$5.run(TaskTracker.java:2404) >> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) >> >> 12/04/03 08:05:13 WARN mapred.JobClient: Error reading task >> outputhttp://localhost:50060/tasklog?plaintext=true&attemptid=attempt_201204030722_0004_m_000002_0&filter=stdout >> 12/04/03 08:05:13 WARN mapred.JobClient: Error reading task >> outputhttp://localhost:50060/tasklog?plaintext=true&attemptid=attempt_201204030722_0004_m_000002_0&filter=stderr > > > > -- > Harsh J