Errors while running hadoop

Question

haduser@user-laptop:/usr/local/hadoop$ bin/hadoop dfs -copyFromLocal /tmp/input 
/user/haduser/input

11/12/14 14:21:00 INFO ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: loca         


        

Answer 1

NameNode (NN) maintains the namespace for HDFS and it should be running for filesystem operations on HDFS. Check the logs why the NN hasn't started. TaskTracker is not required for operations on HDFS, only NN and DN are sufficient. Check the http://goo.gl/8ogSk and http://goo.gl/NIWoK tutorials on how to setup Hadoop on a single and multi node.