I am working with hadoop for the first time, and I am following instructions at http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-single-node-cluster/
I am having problems starting the secondarynamenode daemon. The error message in /var/log/hadoop/hduser/hadoop-hduser-secondarynamenode-master.out is Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Does not contain a valid host:port authority: file:/// at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.createSocketAddr(NetUtils.java:162) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.getAddress(NameNode.java:198) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.getAddress(NameNode.java:228) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.getServiceAddress(NameNode.java:222) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.initialize(SecondaryNameNode.java:161) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.<init>(SecondaryNameNode.java:129) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.main(SecondaryNameNode.java:567) I googled the error message and came across HDFS-2515, which says that I might get that error message if the fs.default.name property name had an incorrect value, but I think my value is okay. My core-site.xml file is : <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?> <!-- Put site-specific property overrides in this file. --> <configuration> <property> <name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name> <value>/home/hduser/tmp</value> <description>A base for other temporary directories.</description> </property> <property> <name>fs.default.name</name> <value>hdfs://localhost:54310</value> <description>The name of the default file system. A URI whose scheme and authority determine the FileSystem implementation. The uri's scheme determines the config property (fs.SCHEME.impl) naming the FileSystem implementation class. The uri's authority is used to determine the host, port, etc. for a filesystem.</description> </property> </configuration> ~ Does anybody have a suggestion for how to further troubleshoot this problem, please? Thank you, Jeff Silverman