Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 6624 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2009 18:49:39 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 29 Sep 2009 18:49:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 87161 invoked by uid 500); 29 Sep 2009 18:49:36 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-user-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 87071 invoked by uid 500); 29 Sep 2009 18:49:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact common-user-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list common-user@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 87061 invoked by uid 99); 29 Sep 2009 18:49:36 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:49:36 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of davebeen@gmail.com designates 209.85.220.222 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.220.222] (HELO mail-fx0-f222.google.com) (209.85.220.222) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:49:25 +0000 Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so1177271fxm.36 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:49:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=iP0adHv5O3NvtMUlWZKFX93NCsciGjt5n0Z8/7H9KIY=; b=hGJK81lDWRW8DKsivtJUAOwZ0YnKHj/5HblOJZF6iqrJpZcMmwMeZ3h4G2fu9hc7FA dOIHzqKD7LwMdGtZFsdXEO7e7k55MEloyXASAjdjYfcSsamCMLPaGEYWDkAVHEJDOmgm sWAYe4l2PtXK0ueMmJ+am1zDFWn9qL33j5kFQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=ObrdwuKk4h/T3yGGJiITMc8CXJrQfxfaUD0ppbekUyP7lu54wGRCCe4wr4B1XZI+CV VVvNJDWUgHTgwXUWhGO040HN/NbCM8p+4i1ZDXUI62WcUI7bZrdvZs4ixN/f4JdXuuvC rtG3RvU72h1w7vD5hWdv70w7SZE0g2qsF7EYM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.36.210 with SMTP id u18mr4458301bkd.19.1254250145176; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:49:05 -0700 Message-ID: <13511e090909291149w7b68f127pf7c31d3128991f90@mail.gmail.com> Subject: TaskTracker: Can not start task tracker because java.lang.RuntimeException: Not a host:port pair: local From: David Been To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Running start-all.sh it logs the above message (only for tasktracker), i figured out it was essentially the following command, then also tried to pick up a specific config. Full message at the bottom hadoop --config ../conf tasktracker // start-all.sh uses this command What conf files does it use when the dir is specified? hadoop --config ../conf/hadoop-localhost.xml tasktracker // same thing, see mapred.job.tracker setting below hadoop tasktracker // same thing I tried to debug this also, but am not figuring out where mapred.job.tracker=local is set, it is in None of my config files. some type of default that my xml file isn't overriding? hadoop-localhost.xml has: mapred.job.tracker localhost:54311 The host and port that the MapReduce job tracker runs at. If "local", then jobs are run in-process as a single map and reduce task. 2009-09-29 07:07:08,488 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: Can not start task tracker because java.lang.RuntimeException: Not a host:port pair: local at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.createSocketAddr(NetUtils.java:136) at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.createSocketAddr(NetUtils.java:123) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.getAddress(JobTracker.java:1756) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.(TaskTracker.java:938) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.main(TaskTracker.java:2881)