Hi Keith, Does ping to localhost returns a reply? Try telneting to localhost 9000.
Thanks, Anil On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Keith Wiley <kwi...@keithwiley.com> wrote: > I'm plagued with this error: > Retrying connect to server: localhost/127.0.0.1:9000. > > I'm trying to set up hadoop on a new machine, just a basic > pseudo-distributed setup. I've done this quite a few times on other > machines, but this time I'm kinda stuck. I formatted the namenode without > obvious errors and ran start-all.sh with no errors to stdout. However, the > logs are full of that error above and if I attempt to access hdfs (ala > "hadoop fs -ls /") I get that error again. Obviously, my core-site.xml > sets fs.default.name to "hdfs://localhost:9000". > > I assume something is wrong with /etc/hosts, but I'm not sure how to fix > it. If "hostname" returns X and "hostname -f" returns Y, then what are the > corresponding entries in /etc/hosts? > > Thanks for any help. > > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com keithwiley.com > music.keithwiley.com > > "I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now, what I'm > with > isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me." > -- Abe (Grandpa) Simpson > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > > -- Thanks & Regards, Anil Gupta