Hadoop\HDFS: "no such file or directory"

Question

I have installed Hadoop 2.2 on a single machine using this tutorial: http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-single-node-cluster/

Some details were changed a little bit - for example, I used java 8, /hadoop root dir etc. Users, SSH, config keys - the same.

Namenode was successfully formatted:

13/12/22 05:42:31 INFO common.Storage: Storage directory /hadoop/tmp/dfs/name has been successfully formatted.
13/12/22 05:42:31 INFO namenode.FSImage: Saving image file /hadoop/tmp/dfs/name/current/fsimage.ckpt_0000000000000000000 using no compression
13/12/22 05:42:32 INFO namenode.FSImage: Image file /hadoop/tmp/dfs/name/current/fsimage.ckpt_0000000000000000000 of size 198 bytes saved in 0 seconds.
13/12/22 05:42:32 INFO namenode.NNStorageRetentionManager: Going to retain 1 images with txid >= 0
13/12/22 05:42:32 INFO util.ExitUtil: Exiting with status 0
13/12/22 05:42:32 INFO namenode.NameNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG: 

However, not 'mkdir' neither even 'ls' command worked:

$ /hadoop/hadoop/bin/hadoop fs -ls
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: You have loaded library /hadoop/hadoop-2.2.0/lib/native/libhadoop.so.1.0.0 which might have disabled stack guard. The VM will try to fix the stack guard now.
It's highly recommended that you fix the library with 'execstack -c <libfile>', or link it with '-z noexecstack'.
13/12/22 05:39:33 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
ls: `.': No such file or directory

Thanks for any help guys.

Answer 1

Try

hadoop fs -ls /

Tested on hadoop 2.4

Answer 2

In Hadoop 2.4

hdfs dfs -mkdir /input
hdfs dfs -ls /

Answer 3

Worked in my case: First Get hadoop installed path by :

echo ${HADOOP_INSTALL} //in my case output is : `/user/local/hadoop`

Then create directory at your hadoop installed path, If you know your hadoop installed directory ignore above command

hadoop fs -mkdir -p /user/local/hadoop/your_directory

Here hadoop is directory

Tested on hadoop 2.4

Answer 4

I have verified this worked in Hadoop 2.5

hdfs dfs -mkdir /input

(where /input is the HDFS directory)