Hi Andrew, Yes that solves it. Care to answer the SO question with some details about why? I put a 100pt bounty.
On Jul 15, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: > umask 022 first, then run the tests > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:37 PM, David Williams <mobiusinvers...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having an issue starting the a mini cluster for the HBaseTestingUtility. > In short I can on Mac OSX, but cannot on Linux. But the error is cryptic > and I don't know what to do next. > > I submitted a ticket with full details on StackOverflow, > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17625938/hbase-minidfscluster-java-fails-in-certain-environments > > But when I call .startMiniCluster on an instance of HBaseTestingUtility , on > Linux (CentOS x86_64), I receive this error: > > > > ERROR in (create-table) (MiniDFSCluster.java:426) > Uncaught exception, not in assertion. > expected: nil > actual: java.lang.NullPointerException: null > at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster.startDataNodes > (MiniDFSCluster.java:426) > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster.<init> (MiniDFSCluster.java:284) > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseTestingUtility.startMiniDFSCluster > (HBaseTestingUtility.java:444) > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseTestingUtility.startMiniCluster > (HBaseTestingUtility.java:612) > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseTestingUtility.startMiniCluster > (HBaseTestingUtility.java:568) > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseTestingUtility.startMiniCluster > (HBaseTestingUtility.java:555) > > I would appreciate help in finding out whats going on and how to set up my > ENV to use the HBaseTestingUtility. > > Thanks > David > > > > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via > Tom White)
