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Ali Ismail
Ali Ismail

Reputation: 311

Working With Hadoop: localhost: Error: JAVA_HOME is not set

I'm working with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

I'm going through the hadoop quickstart manual to make a pseudo-distributed operation. It seems simple and straightforward (easy!).

However, when I try to run start-all.sh I get:

localhost: Error: JAVA_HOME is not set.

I've read all the other advice on stackoverflow for this issue and have done the following to ensure JAVA_HOME is set:

In /etc/hadoop/conf/hadoop-env.sh I have set

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-oracle
export JAVA_HOME

In /etc/bash.bashrc I have set

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-oracle
export JAVA_HOME
PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
export PATH

which java returns:

/usr/bin/java

java –version works

echo $JAVA_HOME returns:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-oracle

I've even tried becoming root and explicitly writing the in the terminal:

$ JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-oracle
$ export JAVA_HOME
$ start-all.sh

If you could show me how to resolve this error it would be greatly appreciated. I'm thinking that my JAVA_HOME is being overridden somehow. If that is the case, could you explain to me how to make my exports global?

Upvotes: 31

Views: 62867

Answers (12)

kometen
kometen

Reputation: 7772

Ran into the same issue on ubuntu LTS 16.04. Running bash -vx ./bin/hadoop showed it tested whether java was a directory. So I changed JAVA_HOME to a folder and it worked.

++ [[ ! -d /usr/bin/java ]]
++ hadoop_error 'ERROR: JAVA_HOME /usr/bin/java does not exist.'
++ echo 'ERROR: JAVA_HOME /usr/bin/java does not exist.'
ERROR: JAVA_HOME /usr/bin/java does not exist.

So I changed JAVA_HOME in ./etc/hadoop/hadoop-env.sh to

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/

and hadoop starts fine.

Upvotes: 4

查话费
查话费

Reputation: 1

I put it on the first line of file ~/.bashrc, then it works well!

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java

Upvotes: -1

Krishna
Krishna

Reputation: 353

I am using hadoop 1.1, and faced the same problem.

I got it solved through changing JAVA_HOME variable in /etc/hadoop/hadoop-env.sh as:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/<jdk folder>

Upvotes: 71

Mr. Crowley
Mr. Crowley

Reputation: 3403

regardless of debian or any linux flavor, just know that ~/.bash_profile belongs to specific user and is not system wide. in pseudo-distributed environment hadoop works on localhost so the $JAVA_HOME in .bash_profile is no use anymore.

just export the JAVA_HOME in ~/.bashrc and use it system wide.

Upvotes: 1

codeguru
codeguru

Reputation: 193

I also had faced the similar problem in hadoop 1.1 I had not noticed that the JAVA_HOME was commented in: hadoop/conf/hadoop-env.sh

It was 

/#JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-oracle

Had to change it to 

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-oracle

Upvotes: 1

whitewalker
whitewalker

Reputation: 433

This error is coming from Line 180 

if [[ -z $JAVA_HOME ]]; then
   echo "Error: JAVA_HOME is not set and could not be found." 1>&2
   exit 1
fi

in libexec/hadoop-config.sh.

Try echo $JAVA_HOME in that script. If it doesn't recognize,

Find your JAVA_HOME using this:

$(readlink -f /usr/bin/javac | sed "s:/bin/javac::")

and replace the line

export JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME} in /etc/hadoop/hadoop-env.sh with JAVA_HOME you got from above command.

Upvotes: 1

Max Xu
Max Xu

Reputation: 2549

echo "export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java" >> $HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop/hadoop-env.sh

Notice: Do not use export JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME} !

Upvotes: 0

Raja Sekaran
Raja Sekaran

Reputation: 11

Change the JAVA_HOME variable in conf/hadoop-env.sh

export JAVA_HOME=/etc/local/java/<jdk folder>

Upvotes: 0

Rajarsh
Rajarsh

Reputation: 1

Check if your alternatives is pointing to the right one, you might actually be pointing to a different version and trying to alter the hadoop-env.sh on another installed version.

-alternatives --install /etc/hadoop/conf [generic_name] [your correct path] priority {for further check man page of alternatives}

to set alternatives manually,

alternatives --set [generic name] [your current path].

Upvotes: 0

Nitesh Chaturvedi
Nitesh Chaturvedi

Reputation: 37

extract from etc/hadoop/hadoop-env.sh

The only required environment variable is JAVA_HOME. All others are optional. When running a distributed configuration it is best to set JAVA_HOME in this file, so that it is correctly defined on remote nodes.

This means its better and advised to set JAVA_HOME here.. even though the existing definition reads the JAVA_HOME variable. Perhaps its not getting the value of JAVA_HOME from previously set value... standard apache manual does not tell this :( :(

Upvotes: 1

Alex Bitek
Alex Bitek

Reputation: 6559

The way to solve this problem is to export the JAVA_HOME variable inside the conf/hadoop-env.sh file.

It doesn't matter if you already exported that variable in ~/.bashrc, it'll still show the error.

So edit conf/hadoop-env.sh and uncomment the line "export JAVA_HOME" and add a proper filesystem path to it, i.e. the path to your Java JDK.

# The Java implementation to use. Required.
export JAVA_HOME="/path/to/java/JDK/"

Upvotes: 21

Paul Sanwald
Paul Sanwald

Reputation: 11329

The way to debug this is to put an "echo $JAVA_HOME" in start-all.sh. Are you running your hadoop environment under a different username, or as yourself? If the former, it's very likely that the JAVA_HOME environment variable is not set for that user.

The other potential problem is that you have specified JAVA_HOME incorrectly, and the value that you have provided doesn't point to a JDK/JRE. Note that "which java" and "java -version" will both work, even if JAVA_HOME is set incorrectly.

Upvotes: 1

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