Ina, Also, is "namenode" a valid alias for your namenode machine?
Kindest regards. Ron On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Alex Kozlov <ale...@cloudera.com> wrote: > You need mapred.job.tracker property (in your mapred-site.xml commonly) > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Ina M <tiedye...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > >
