Error when trying to write to hdfs: Server IPC version 9 cannot communicate with client version 4

Question

I am trying a write a file to hdfs using scala and I keep getting the following error

Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: Server IPC version 9 cannot communicate with client version 4
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1113)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Invoker.invoke(RPC.java:229)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy1.getProtocolVersion(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invokeMethod(RetryInvocationHandler.java:85)
at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:62)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy1.getProtocolVersion(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC.checkVersion(RPC.java:422)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.createNamenode(DFSClient.java:183)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.<init>(DFSClient.java:281)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.<init>(DFSClient.java:245)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.initialize(DistributedFileSystem.java:100)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.createFileSystem(FileSystem.java:1446)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.access$200(FileSystem.java:67)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.get(FileSystem.java:1464)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:263)
at bcomposes.twitter.Util$.<init>(TwitterStream.scala:39)
at bcomposes.twitter.Util$.<clinit>(TwitterStream.scala)
at bcomposes.twitter.StatusStreamer$.main(TwitterStream.scala:17)
at bcomposes.twitter.StatusStreamer.main(TwitterStream.scala)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)

I installed hadoop following this tutorial. The code below is what I use to insert a sample file to hdfs.

val configuration = new Configuration();
val hdfs = FileSystem.get( new URI( "hdfs://192.168.11.153:54310" ), configuration );
val file = new Path("hdfs://192.168.11.153:54310/s2013/batch/table.html");
if ( hdfs.exists( file )) { hdfs.delete( file, true ); } 
val os = hdfs.create( file);
val br = new BufferedWriter( new OutputStreamWriter( os, "UTF-8" ) );
br.write("Hello World");
br.close();
hdfs.close();

The Hadoop version is 2.4.0 and hadoop library version I use is 1.2.1. What change should I do to make this work?

Answer 1

I had the same problem using Hadoop 2.3 and I've solved it adding the following lines to my build.sbt file :

libraryDependencies += "org.apache.hadoop" % "hadoop-client" % "2.3.0"

libraryDependencies += "org.apache.hadoop" % "hadoop-hdfs" % "2.3.0"

So I think in your case you case use the 2.4.0 version.

PS: It also worked on your code sample. I hope it will help

Answer 2

As said in error message Server IPC version 9 cannot communicate with client version 4 your server has slighly newer version, than your client. You have to either downgrade your hadoop cluster (most likely not an option) or upgrade your client library from 1.2.1 to 2.x version.

Answer 3

hadoop and spark versions should be in sync. (In my case, I am working with spark-1.2.0 and hadoop 2.2.0)

STEP 1 - goto $SPARK_HOME

STEP 2 - Simply mvn build spark with the version of hadoop client you want,

mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.2 -Dhadoop.version=2.2.0 -DskipTests clean package

STEP 3 - Also spark project should have proper spark version,

name := "smartad-spark-songplaycount"

version := "1.0"

scalaVersion := "2.10.4"

//libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core" % "1.1.1"
libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" % "spark-core_2.10" % "1.2.0"

libraryDependencies += "org.apache.hadoop" % "hadoop-client" % "2.2.0"

libraryDependencies += "org.apache.hadoop" % "hadoop-hdfs" % "2.2.0"

resolvers += "Akka Repository" at "http://repo.akka.io/releases/"

References

Building apache spark with mvn