Hi Otto - since you don't need to set SQOOP_HOME, can you go ahead and unset that environment variable and then try running sqoop?
Also, which Hadoop version are you on? Regards, Kate On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Otto Rossbach <otto.rossb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I do have some trouble setting up Sqoop. I downloaded the latest > version of Sqoop > from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/sqoop/. > I figured out, that I don't have to build sqoop using ant, because the > binaries and the jar's are already in the tar. > > I have set the environment variables: > HADOOP_HOME > HIVE_HOME > SQOOP_HOME > and have their bin subfolders added to the PATH variable. > > Running 'sqoop' or 'sqoop version' leads to the following error: > > hadoop@dev1:/usr/local/sqoop> sqoop > Warning: /usr/lib/hbase does not exist! HBase imports will fail. > Please set $HBASE_HOME to the root of your HBase installation. > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ > cloudera/sqoop/Sqoop > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.cloudera.sqoop.Sqoop > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320) > Could not find the main class: com.cloudera.sqoop.Sqoop. Program will > exit. > > That's why I tried to add the missing jars in the HADOOP_CLASSPATH in > sqoop/bin/configure-sqoop. I added the following line at the end of > the file: export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=$HADOOP_CLASSPATH:/usr/local/sqoop/ > sqoop-1.4.0-incubating.jar > So that the com/cloudera/sqoop/Sqoop class was found. But > unfortunately this does not solve the problem. Now I do get the > following error when executing "sqoop version". (I know this is a very > dirty hack, but I really don't know what variable I need to set, so > that sqoop finds its own jar-files?! Very frustrating!) > > hadoop@dev1:/usr/local/sqoop> sqoop version > Warning: /usr/lib/hbase does not exist! HBase imports will fail. > Please set $HBASE_HOME to the root of your HBase installation. > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: > org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getInstances(Ljava/lang/ > String;Ljava/lang/Class;)Ljava/util/List; > at org.apache.sqoop.tool.SqoopTool.loadPlugins(SqoopTool.java:139) > at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:210) > at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:229) > at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:238) > at com.cloudera.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:57) > > I could do the same trick for the > org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getInstances method, but I > haven't found the correct jar-file yet. And this is definitely not the > correct way to do it. > > Can anyone help me setting up Sqoop correctly? > > Thanks for your help in advance.
