Hadoop 0.21 will not work on non-SUN JREs due to use of com.sun.security in org/apache/hadoop/security/UserGroupInformation.java -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HADOOP-6941 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6941 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.21.0 Environment: SLES 11, Apache Harmony 6 and SLES 11, IBM Java 6 Reporter: Stephen Watt Fix For: 0.21.1, 0.22.0, 0.21.0 Attempting to format the namenode or attempting to start Hadoop using Apache Harmony or the IBM Java JREs results in the following exception: 10/09/07 16:35:05 ERROR namenode.NameNode: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.sun.security.auth.UnixPrincipal at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.(UserGroupInformation.java:223) at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initializeImpl(Native Method) at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:200) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.setConfigurationParameters(FSNamesystem.java:420) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.(FSNamesystem.java:391) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.format(NameNode.java:1240) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1348) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1368) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.security.auth.UnixPrincipal at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:421) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:652) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:346) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:618) ... 8 more This is a negative regression as previous versions of Hadoop worked with these JREs -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.