I am not sure if EC2 script was updated for R3, R3 doesnt provide formatted instance store also requires newer version of AMI for the same.
Regards Mayur Mayur Rustagi Ph: +1 (760) 203 3257 http://www.sigmoidanalytics.com @mayur_rustagi <https://twitter.com/mayur_rustagi> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Xiangrui Meng <men...@gmail.com> wrote: > Was the error message the same as you posted when you used `root` as > the user id? Could you try this: > > 1) Do not specify user id. (Default would be `root`.) > 2) If it fails in the middle, try `spark-ec2 .... --resume launch > <cluster>` to continue launching the cluster. > > Best, > Xiangrui > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:44 PM, adparker <adpar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I had this problem too and fixed it by setting the wait time-out to a > larger > > value: --wait > > > > For example, in "stand alone" mode with default values, a time out of 480 > > seconds worked for me: > > > > $ cd spark-0.9.1/ec2 > > $ ./spark-ec2 --key-pair=XXXX --identity-file=XXXX > --instance-type=r3.large > > --wait=480 launch XXXX > > > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Error-while-launching-ec2-spark-cluster-with-HVM-r3-large-tp5862p6276.html > > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >