I agree with Rakesh that spaces in JAVA_HOME is likely to be a problem. This is a known problem tracked in JIRA issue HADOOP-9600.
--Chris Nauroth From: Rakesh Radhakrishnan <[email protected]> Date: Monday, August 8, 2016 at 8:03 AM To: Atri Sharma <[email protected]> Cc: "user.hadoop" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Cannot run Hadoop on Windows Hi Atri, I doubt the problem is due to space in the path -> "Program Files". Instead of C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_101, please copy JDK dir to C:\java\jdk1.8.0_101 and try once. Rakesh Intel On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Atri Sharma <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi All, I am trying to run a compiled Hadoop jar on Windows but ran into the following error when running hdfs-format: JAVA_HOME is incorrectly set. I echoed the path being set in etc/Hadoop-env.cmd and it echoes the correct path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_101 Please advise. Regards, Atri
