Changing the hadoop jar file to a lower version solved the issue I removed hadoop-core-1.0.3.jar from the lib folder and replaced it with hadoop-core-0.20.2.jar file
It works for me -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Installation-of-NUTCH-on-windows7-tp4036210p4068287.html Sent from the Nutch - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

