Mikhail created HADOOP-8716: ------------------------------- Summary: Users/Groups are not created during installation of DEB package Key: HADOOP-8716 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8716 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Components: scripts Affects Versions: 1.0.3 Environment: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64 Reporter: Mikhail
During DEB x64 package installation I got the following errors: mak@mak-laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i hadoop_1.0.3-1_x86_64.deb [sudo] password for mak: Selecting previously unselected package hadoop. (Reading database ... 195000 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking hadoop (from hadoop_1.0.3-1_x86_64.deb) ... groupadd: GID '123' already exists Setting up hadoop (1.0.3) ... chown: invalid group: `root:hadoop' chown: invalid group: `root:hadoop' Processing triggers for ureadahead ... ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot Group with ID=123 already exists and belongs to 'saned' according to my /etc/group: saned:x:123: Also, during first run I see the following: mak@mak-laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo service hadoop-namenode start * Starting Apache Hadoop Name Node server hadoop-namenode start-stop-daemon: user 'hdfs' not found This user wasn't created during installation. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira