[HDFS-2370] Distcp not working due to NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/tools/DistCp

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.0
• Component/s: tools
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Rajit Saha
• Created: 27/Sep/11 00:38
• Updated: 15/Nov/11 00:53
• Resolved: 27/Sep/11 08:31

Description

$HADOOP_COMMON_HOME/bin/hadoop --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR distcp
hdfs://<NN1>:8020/tmp/input
hdfs://<NN1>:8020/tmp/output
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/tools/DistCp
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
Could not find the main class: org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp. Program will exit.

it used to work before, do we need to export any environment variable? does distcp changed its place?