question snappy library not available in hadoop in Support Questions

snappy library not available in hadoop

Sasha2 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:26:54 GMT

After upgrading our cloudera cluster to CDP 7.1.9 from CDP 7.1.7
snappy is no longer available when running
hadoop checknative
and our apps getting error : nnative snappy library not available: this version of libhadoop was built without snappy support
Hadoop version we have is Hadoop 3.1.1.7.1.9.14-2
Native library checking:
hadoop: true /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-7.1.9-1.cdh7.1.9.p14.53489573/lib/hadoop/lib/native/libhadoop.so.1.0.0
zlib: true /lib64/libz.so.1
zstd : true /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-7.1.9-1.cdh7.1.9.p14.53489573/lib/hadoop/lib/native/libzstd.so.1
bzip2: true /lib64/libbz2.so.1
openssl: true /lib64/libcrypto.so
ISA-L: false Loading ISA-L failed: Failed to load libisal.so.2 (libisal.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

Please advice

Re: snappy library not available in hadoop

DianaTorres — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:16:47 GMT

@Sasha2 Welcome to the Cloudera Community!

To help you get the best possible solution, I have tagged our CDP experts @abdulpasithali @upadhyayk04 who may be able to assist you further.

Please keep us updated on your post, and we hope you find a satisfactory solution to your query.

Re: snappy library not available in hadoop

Scharan — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:17:42 GMT

@Sasha2 This issue occurs when Tez tar file is not updated in HDFS

Can you try below step

Go to Cloudera Manager > TEZ > Actions > Upload Tez tar file to HDFS and Redeploy TEZ client configuration

Re: snappy library not available in hadoop

Sasha2 — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:45:50 GMT

Hello
I have tried steps you've mentioned and that did not resolve the issue
Any other suggestions ?

Re: snappy library not available in hadoop

ggangadharan — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:34:38 GMT

It looks similar to the KB

Please follow the instructions in the KB.