[BIGTOP-663] cannot start sqoop-metastore in Ubuntu precise

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Component/s: debian
• Assignee: Patrick Taylor Ramsey
• Reporter: Johnny Zhang
• Created: 01/Jul/12 22:49
• Updated: 21/Jun/13 23:55
• Resolved: 14/Aug/12 20:48

Description

cannot start sqoop-metastore in precise, seems cannot find JAVA_HOME

# service sqoop-metastore start
root@pkgtest-ubuntu64-12-04:~/bigtop# service sqoop-metastore status
sqoop-metastore is not running.
root@pkgtest-ubuntu64-12-04:~/bigtop# cat vi /var/log/sqoop/sqoop-metastore-sqoop-pkgtest-ubuntu64-12-04.log
cat: vi: No such file or directory
+======================================================================+
|      Error: JAVA_HOME is not set and Java could not be found         |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Please download the latest Sun JDK from the Sun Java web site        |
|       > http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ <                      |
|                                                                      |
| HBase requires Java 1.6 or later.                                    |
| NOTE: This script will find Sun Java whether you install using the   |
|       binary or the RPM based installer.                             |
+======================================================================+
Error: JAVA_HOME is not set and could not be found.
root@pkgtest-ubuntu64-12-04:~/bigtop# echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/lib/jvm/j2sdk1.6-oracle