This just tells that the service which you are trying to conned is not running on that address or port no.
just try netstat -nlrt | grep 8020 and check if it showing something. what i can find out from the error that the server is not running or if it running then its running on some other port -- View this message in context: http://hadoop.6.n7.nabble.com/Error-INFO-ipc-Client-Retrying-connect-to-server-192-168-100-11-8020-Already-tried-0-time-s-tp11885p66957.html Sent from the common-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.