Hi Abhishek, Try reading through the shell scripts before postiing. They are short and simple enough and you should be able to debug them quite easily. I've seen the same error many times.
Do you see JAVA_HOME set when you $ssh localhost? Also which command are you using to start the daemons? Fight on, Ravi On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:35 PM, abhishek sharma <absha...@usc.edu> wrote: > Hi Hailong, > > I have installed JDK and set JAVA_HOME correctly (as far as I know). > > Output of java -version is: > java version "1.6.0_04" > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_04-b12) > Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 10.0-b19, mixed mode) > > I also have another version installed "1.6.0_27" but get same error with > it. > > Abhishek > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:00 PM, hailong.yang1115 > <hailong.yang1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi abhishek, > > > > Have you successfully installed java virtual machine like sun JDK before > running Hadoop? Or maybe you forget to configure the environment variable > JAVA_HOME? What is the output of the command 'java -version'? > > > > Regards > > > > Hailong > > > > > > > > > > *********************************************** > > * Hailong Yang, PhD. Candidate > > * Sino-German Joint Software Institute, > > * School of Computer Science&Engineering, Beihang University > > * Phone: (86-010)82315908 > > * Email: hailong.yang1...@gmail.com > > * Address: G413, New Main Building in Beihang University, > > * No.37 XueYuan Road,HaiDian District, > > * Beijing,P.R.China,100191 > > *********************************************** > > > > From: abhishek sharma > > Date: 2011-09-02 03:51 > > To: common-user; common-dev > > Subject: Namenode not starting > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to install Hadoop (release 0.20.203) on a machine with > CentOS. > > > > When I try to start HDFS, I get the following error. > > > > <machine-name>: Unrecognized option: -jvm > > <machine-name>: Could not create the Java virtual machine. > > > > Any idea what might be the problem? > > > > Thanks, > > Abhishek >
