I'm having issues running the minicluster both in the 'accumulo proxy -p proxy.properties' and via 'accumulo minicluster'. It looks like the Zookeeper process is not starting and the MAC is going into an infinite loop waiting for it to start.
I checked the Master.err logs for the minicluster command and I see the following: Uncaught exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/vfs2/impl/VFSClassLoader java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/vfs2/impl/VFSClassLoader at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2521) at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:2764) at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1653) at org.apache.accumulo.start.Main.main(Main.java:42) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.VFSClassLoader at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ... 5 more the commons-vfs2.jar is in Accumulo's lib directory. I'm using Hadoop 1.2.1.