So if Hadoop Core puts up a new snapshot, it looks like Ivy pulls it down but does not delete any older version which may be locally cached, and so the snapshots get mixed up on the classpath.
apurt...@latitude:~/src/Hadoop/hbase-trunk$ svn up At revision 899155. apurt...@latitude:~/src/Hadoop/hbase-trunk$ svn status apurt...@latitude:~/src/Hadoop/hbase-trunk$ rm -rf build apurt...@latitude:~/src/Hadoop/hbase-trunk$ ant && ant test [...] BUILD SUCCESSFUL [...] test-core: [mkdir] Created dir: /home/apurtell/src/Hadoop/hbase-trunk/build/test/logs [junit] Running org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TestCompare [junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.086 sec [junit] Running org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TestEmptyMetaInfo [junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Time elapsed: 2.251 sec [junit] Test org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TestEmptyMetaInfo FAILED Tail of build/test/TEST-org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TestEmptyMetaInfo.txt: Testcase: testEmptyMetaInfo took 2.237 sec Caused an ERROR org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC.waitForProxy(Ljava/lang/Class;JLjava/net/InetSocketAddress;Lorg/apache/hadoop/conf/Configuration;)Lorg/apache/hadoop/ipc/VersionedProtocol; java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC.waitForProxy(Ljava/lang/Class;JLjava/net/InetSocketAddress;Lorg/apache/hadoop/conf/Configuration;)Lorg/apache/hadoop/ipc/VersionedProtocol; at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.startDataNode(DataNode.java:283) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.<init>(DataNode.java:233) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.makeInstance(DataNode.java:1416) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.instantiateDataNode(DataNode.java:1371) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster.startDataNodes(MiniDFSCluster.java:428) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster.<init>(MiniDFSCluster.java:292) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseClusterTestCase.setUp(HBaseClusterTestCase.java:124) Blowing away the Ivy cache resolved this. apurt...@latitude:~/src/Hadoop/hbase-trunk$ rm -rf ~/.ivy2/cache apurt...@latitude:~/src/Hadoop/hbase-trunk$ ant && ant test [...] And all is well. Hitting this for the first time at 3am is annoying. Any chance there is some update to the Ivy config which can handle this automagically? - Andy