OK, the problem was that the directory where I had installed Spark is encrypted. The particular encryption system appears to limit the length of files.
I re-installed on a vanilla partition, and spark-shell runs fine. -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/spark-shell-fails-tp2778p2822.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
