If output directory can not be created, error message on stdout does not provide any clue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-5756 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5756 Project: Hadoop Core Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.18.3 Reporter: Suhas Gogate In the following wordcount example output directory path can not be created because /temp does not exists and user has not privileges to create output path at "/". hadoop --config ./clustdir/ jar /homes/gogate/wordcount.jar com.XXXX.wordcount.WordCount /in-path/gogate/myfile /temp/mywc-gogate 09/04/28 23:00:32 WARN mapred.JobClient: Use GenericOptionsParser for parsing the arguments. Applications should implement Tool for the same. 09/04/28 23:00:32 INFO mapred.FileInputFormat: Total input paths to process : 1 09/04/28 23:00:32 INFO mapred.FileInputFormat: Total input paths to process : 1 09/04/28 23:00:33 INFO mapred.JobClient: Running job: job_200904282249_0004 java.io.IOException: Job failed! at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.runJob(JobClient.java:1113) at com.XXXX.wordcount.WordCount.main(WordCount.java:55) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:155) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.run(JobShell.java:54) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.main(JobShell.java:68) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.