Re: error writing to collectorSink on mac os x

[Abhi Dubey <ab...@gmail.com>]

Alex,

I just wanted to let you know that your tip to install flume 1.x worked. I am able to set an hdfs sink and write correctly. Thanks!


Abhi

On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:33 PM, Abhi Dubey <ab...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alex,
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply. I am afraid I don't understand which config file are you asking for. Do you mean the config file I used to setup flume source and sink? If that is so, I just used the web interface http://localhost:35871/flumemaster.jsp to set the config. 
> I used source: text("/etc/services")
> I used Sink: collectorSink("hdfs://localhost:8020/user/abhi/flume/","test file")
> 
> This throws the error that I wrote in the previous message. I also tried a different datacollectod sink - writing to file system.
> source: text("/etc/services")
> Sink: collectorSink("file:///Users/abhi/","testfile")
> It throws the same error. 
> 
> But if I use
> source: text("/etc/services")
> sink: cosole
> 
> It works. It also works if I use a text sink.
> source: text("/etc/services")
> sink: text("services.copy")
> 
> 
> Can you tell me once again which config file do you need to look at?
> 
> As per the homebrew formulas, hadoop is version 1.0.4. And flume is version 0.9.4-cdh3u2. After installing flume, I re
> 
> 
> On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:17 PM, Alexander Alten-Lorenz <wg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Can you connect to your HDFS instance? Attach the config file for further debug.
>> Btw, per homebrew installed HDFS / Flume / whatever depends on the recipes homebrew uses. Check this first please.
>> 
>> Best
>> - Alex
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 30, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Abhi Dubey <ab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I am running hadoop in pseudo-distributed mode on mac os x 10.8.2. I installed flume (via homebrew) and I can write to console and local file system using text. Hadoop was also installed via homebrew.
>>>> 
>>>> But if I use collectorSink and either a file target file:/// or hdfs://, I get an error. The error is same for both types of targets.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 2012-11-29 20:22:47,182 [logicalNode new-host-2.home-21] INFO debug.InsistentAppendDecorator: append attempt 6 failed, backoff (60000ms): failure to login
>>>> 2012-11-29 20:23:47,181 [pool-8-thread-1] INFO hdfs.EscapedCustomDfsSink: Opening file:///Users/abhi/flume/testfile20121129-202317290-0800.1354249397290310000.00000037
>>>> 2012-11-29 20:23:47,183 [logicalNode new-host-2.home-21] INFO debug.StubbornAppendSink: append failed on event 'new-host-2.home [INFO Thu Nov 29 20:21:44 PST 2012] #' with error: failure to login
>>>> 2012-11-29 20:23:47,183 [logicalNode new-host-2.home-21] INFO rolling.RollSink: closing RollSink 'escapedCustomDfs("file:///Users/abhi/flume","testfile%{rolltag}" )'
>>>> 2012-11-29 20:23:47,183 [logicalNode new-host-2.home-21] INFO rolling.RollSink: opening RollSink  'escapedCustomDfs("file:///Users/abhi/flume","testfile%{rolltag}" )'
>>>> 2012-11-29 20:23:47,184 [logicalNode new-host-2.home-21] INFO debug.InsistentOpenDecorator: Opened MaskDecorator on try 0
>>>> 2012-11-29 20:23:47,185 [pool-9-thread-1] INFO hdfs.EscapedCustomDfsSink: Opening file:///Users/abhi/flume/testfile20121129-202347184-0800.1354249427184178000.00000021
>>>> 2012-11-29 20:23:47,192 [logicalNode new-host-2.home-21] INFO debug.InsistentAppendDecorator: append attempt 7 failed, backoff (60000ms): failure to login
>>>> 
>>>> I am not sure what is going on. The permissions to the directory is 777. Can anyone help with this error?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Abhi
>>> 
>> 
>> --
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>> 
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