Hi all, I am using hadoop 1.0.0 running in Cygwin. I'm getting the following error message when I try to run jobtracker.
12/01/30 17:18:21 FATAL mapred.JobTracker: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Does not contain a valid host:port authority: local at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.createSocketAddr(NetUtils.java:185) at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.createSocketAddr(NetUtils.java:151) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.getAddress(JobTracker.java:2560) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.<init>(JobTracker.java:2200) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.<init>(JobTracker.java:2192) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.<init>(JobTracker.java:2186) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.startTracker(JobTracker.java:300) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.startTracker(JobTracker.java:291) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.main(JobTracker.java:4978) I have configured my core-site.xml file to read: <configuration> <property> <name>fs.default.name</name> <value>hdfs://namenode:8020</value> </property> </configuration> I have also tried using localhost in place of namenode and dropping the port at the end. I'm unsure what the problem is, and how to fix it. Any help much appreciated. Thanks, Ian