To really wrap this issue up, I was running a Java program that did not have the hadoop configuration in the classpath. Therefore, the program was looking on the local filesystem instead of in hdfs.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:40 PM, David Medinets <[email protected]> wrote: > Chalk this one up to ignorance. I did some code tracing and learned > that the /accumulo/instance_id is actually a directory in hdfs. The > sole file in that directory is named after the instance id. > > $ hadoop fs -ls /accumulo/instance_id > Found 1 items > -rw-r--r-- 1 medined supergroup 0 2012-06-11 17:58 > /accumulo/instance_id/b519799c-3a51-4c9b-af21-96d577e2c11f > > My system might be more stable now that I have Zookeeper storing > information someplace other than /tmp. > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:58 PM, David Medinets > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I deleted /accumulo from HDFS. I ran "ls /" in Zookeeper and did not >> see /accumulo. So I ran the 'accumulo init' program. No errors. >> >> Then I ran ZooZap with the verbose option and got this error: >> >> 12/06/10 21:57:06 ERROR client.ZooKeeperInstance: unable obtain >> instance id at /accumulo/instance_id >> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Accumulo not >> initialized, there is no instance id at /accumulo/instance_id >> at >> org.apache.accumulo.core.client.ZooKeeperInstance.getInstanceIDFromHdfs(ZooKeeperInstance.java:263) >> at >> org.apache.accumulo.server.client.HdfsZooInstance._getInstanceID(HdfsZooInstance.java:123) >> at >> org.apache.accumulo.server.client.HdfsZooInstance.getInstanceID(HdfsZooInstance.java:116) >> at org.apache.accumulo.server.util.ZooZap.main(ZooZap.java:67) >> >> Has something changed in how the accumulo information is stored in Zookeeper? >> >> Looking at Zookeeper, I now see: >> >> [zk: 127.0.0.1:2181(CONNECTED) 1] ls / >> [accumulo, zookeeper] >> [zk: 127.0.0.1:2181(CONNECTED) 2] ls /accumulo >> [2b64e012-a197-4ec0-a487-dc2e154cbd94, instances] >> [zk: 127.0.0.1:2181(CONNECTED) 3] ls /accumulo/instances >> [development] >> [zk: 127.0.0.1:2181(CONNECTED) 4] ls /accumulo/instances/development >> [] >> [zk: 127.0.0.1:2181(CONNECTED) 5] ls >> /accumulo/2b64e012-a197-4ec0-a487-dc2e154cbd94 >> [tables, tservers, users, problems, next_file, root_tablet, >> hdfs_reservations, tracers, gc, table_locks, config, masters]
