[HADOOP-7837] no NullAppender in the log4j config

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.1
• Component/s: conf

Environment

OS/X, no JAVA_HOME set

• Target Version/s: 0.23.1
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Eli Collins
• Reporter: Steve Loughran
• Created: 18/Nov/11 14:51
• Updated: 05/Mar/12 02:49
• Resolved: 20/Dec/11 17:22

Description

running sbin/start-dfs.sh gives me a telling off about no null appender -should one be in the log4j config file.

Full trace (failure expected, but full output not as expected)

./start-dfs.sh 
log4j:ERROR Could not find value for key log4j.appender.NullAppender
log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate appender named "NullAppender".
Incorrect configuration: namenode address dfs.namenode.servicerpc-address or dfs.namenode.rpc-address is not configured.
Starting namenodes on []
cat: /Users/slo/Java/Hadoop/versions/hadoop-0.23.0/libexec/../etc/hadoop/slaves: No such file or directory
cat: /Users/slo/Java/Hadoop/versions/hadoop-0.23.0/libexec/../etc/hadoop/slaves: No such file or directory
Secondary namenodes are not configured.  Cannot start secondary namenodes.