I have upgraded to v0.7.0 - as proven through 'whirr version' - using these commands:
wget http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/whirr/whirr-0.7.0/whirr-0.7.0.tar.gz tar xvfz whirr-0.7.0.tar.gz export PATH=${PWD}/whirr-0.7.0/bin:$PATH chmod +x whirr-0.7.0/bin/* but I am seeing the same permission error. However, the exception is handled a bit cleaner. While the cluster is terminated due to the error, whirr still does not complete back to the command line. Please let me know if I can do anything to help resolve this. My hbase-ec2.properties file is now as follows. Notice that I don't specify the instance type or AMI: whirr.cluster-name=hbase whirr.instance-templates=1 zookeeper+hadoop-namenode+hadoop-jobtracker+hbase-master,2 hadoop-datanode+hadoop-tasktracker+hbase-regionserver whirr.provider=aws-ec2 whirr.identity=${env:AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID} whirr.credential=${env:AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY} whirr.hbase.tarball.url=http://archive.apache.org/dist/hbase/hbase-0.89.20100924/hbase-0.89.20100924-bin.tar.gz whirr is automatically picking an instance type of m1.small with an AMI of ami-ab36fbc2. The three instances do start. And are terminated when the exception occurs. Still running whirr like this: whirr launch-cluster --config hbase-ec2.properties With the following result: Bootstrapping cluster Configuring template Configuring template Starting 1 node(s) with roles [zookeeper, hadoop-namenode, hadoop-jobtracker, hbase-master] Starting 2 node(s) with roles [hadoop-datanode, hadoop-tasktracker, hbase-regionserver] Nodes started: [[id=us-east-1/i-9ac71cf8, providerId=i-9ac71cf8, group=hbase, name=hbase-9ac71cf8, location=[id=us-east-1b, scope=ZONE, description=us-east-1b, parent=us-east-1, iso3166Codes=[US-VA], metadata={}], uri=null, imageId=us-east-1/ami-ab36fbc2, os=[name=null, family=ubuntu, version=10.04, arch=paravirtual, is64Bit=false, description=099720109477/ebs/ubuntu-images/ubuntu-lucid-10.04-i386-server-20110930], state=RUNNING, loginPort=22, hostname=domU-12-31-39-14-F5-FE, privateAddresses=[10.206.245.252], publicAddresses=[107.21.87.41], hardware=[id=m1.small, providerId=m1.small, name=null, processors=[[cores=1.0, speed=1.0]], ram=1740, volumes=[[id=null, type=LOCAL, size=150.0, device=/dev/sda2, durable=false, isBootDevice=false], [id=vol-617c160c, type=SAN, size=null, device=/dev/sda1, durable=true, isBootDevice=true]], supportsImage=And(ALWAYS_TRUE,Or(isWindows(),requiresVirtualizationType(paravirtual)),ALWAYS_TRUE,Not(is64Bit())), tags=[]], loginUser=ubuntu, userMetadata={Name=hbase-9ac71cf8}, tags=[]]] Nodes started: [[id=us-east-1/i-94c71cf6, providerId=i-94c71cf6, group=hbase, name=hbase-94c71cf6, location=[id=us-east-1b, scope=ZONE, description=us-east-1b, parent=us-east-1, iso3166Codes=[US-VA], metadata={}], uri=null, imageId=us-east-1/ami-ab36fbc2, os=[name=null, family=ubuntu, version=10.04, arch=paravirtual, is64Bit=false, description=099720109477/ebs/ubuntu-images/ubuntu-lucid-10.04-i386-server-20110930], state=RUNNING, loginPort=22, hostname=domU-12-31-39-13-CC-50, privateAddresses=[10.201.207.190], publicAddresses=[107.21.74.44], hardware=[id=m1.small, providerId=m1.small, name=null, processors=[[cores=1.0, speed=1.0]], ram=1740, volumes=[[id=null, type=LOCAL, size=150.0, device=/dev/sda2, durable=false, isBootDevice=false], [id=vol-5b7c1636, type=SAN, size=null, device=/dev/sda1, durable=true, isBootDevice=true]], supportsImage=And(ALWAYS_TRUE,Or(isWindows(),requiresVirtualizationType(paravirtual)),ALWAYS_TRUE,Not(is64Bit())), tags=[]], loginUser=ubuntu, userMetadata={Name=hbase-94c71cf6}, tags=[]], [id=us-east-1/i-98c71cfa, providerId=i-98c71cfa, group=hbase, name=hbase-98c71cfa, location=[id=us-east-1b, scope=ZONE, description=us-east-1b, parent=us-east-1, iso3166Codes=[US-VA], metadata={}], uri=null, imageId=us-east-1/ami-ab36fbc2, os=[name=null, family=ubuntu, version=10.04, arch=paravirtual, is64Bit=false, description=099720109477/ebs/ubuntu-images/ubuntu-lucid-10.04-i386-server-20110930], state=RUNNING, loginPort=22, hostname=domU-12-31-39-09-CD-73, privateAddresses=[10.210.210.129], publicAddresses=[107.22.36.203], hardware=[id=m1.small, providerId=m1.small, name=null, processors=[[cores=1.0, speed=1.0]], ram=1740, volumes=[[id=null, type=LOCAL, size=150.0, device=/dev/sda2, durable=false, isBootDevice=false], [id=vol-597c1634, type=SAN, size=null, device=/dev/sda1, durable=true, isBootDevice=true]], supportsImage=And(ALWAYS_TRUE,Or(isWindows(),requiresVirtualizationType(paravirtual)),ALWAYS_TRUE,Not(is64Bit())), tags=[]], loginUser=ubuntu, userMetadata={Name=hbase-98c71cfa}, tags=[]]] Authorizing firewall ingress to [us-east-1/i-9ac71cf8] on ports [2181] for [72.205.25.214/32] The permission '72.205.25.214/32-1-2181-2181' has already been authorized on the specified group Unable to start the cluster. Terminating all nodes.
