Hey guys, 

I have the following scenario:

I have a machine running CDH 5.5, everything is up and running. When I start spark-shell inside this machine, everything works perfectly.

In my local machine, I downloaded Spark 1.5.0 compiled for Hadoop 2.4 and up. What I did was:

• copy core-site.xml and yarn-site.xml to my local machine and set HADOOP_CONF_DIR point to the directory that contains both files
• I started spark-shell using ./pyspark --master yarn-client

Then I get this error:

Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13) 
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Using Spark's default log4j profile: org/apache/spark/log4j-defaults.properties
16/03/23 15:21:43 INFO SparkContext: Running Spark version 1.5.0
16/03/23 15:21:44 INFO SecurityManager: Changing view acls to: cloudera
16/03/23 15:21:44 INFO SecurityManager: Changing modify acls to: cloudera
16/03/23 15:21:44 INFO SecurityManager: SecurityManager: authentication disabled; ui acls disabled; users with view permissions: Set(cloudera); users with modify permissions: Set(cloudera)
16/03/23 15:21:44 INFO Slf4jLogger: Slf4jLogger started
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO Remoting: Starting remoting
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO Remoting: Remoting started; listening on addresses :[akka.tcp://sparkDriver@10.1.1.36:51463]
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO Utils: Successfully started service 'sparkDriver' on port 51463.
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO SparkEnv: Registering MapOutputTracker
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO SparkEnv: Registering BlockManagerMaster
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO DiskBlockManager: Created local directory at /tmp/blockmgr-e80c02a3-8c96-4a9c-8ca5-df47894e74db
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO MemoryStore: MemoryStore started with capacity 530.3 MB
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO HttpFileServer: HTTP File server directory is /tmp/spark-17ec3a7c-5e8a-47b6-9b81-8a9804348adf/httpd-49f244bd-b0de-4530-8c46-9375c267b6eb
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO HttpServer: Starting HTTP Server
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO Utils: Successfully started service 'HTTP file server' on port 57142.
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO SparkEnv: Registering OutputCommitCoordinator
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO Utils: Successfully started service 'SparkUI' on port 4040.
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO SparkUI: Started SparkUI at http://10.1.1.36:4040
16/03/23 15:21:45 WARN MetricsSystem: Using default name DAGScheduler for source because spark.app.id is not set.
16/03/23 15:21:45 INFO RMProxy: Connecting to ResourceManager at /10.1.8.109:8032
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO Client: Requesting a new application from cluster with 1 NodeManagers
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO Client: Verifying our application has not requested more than the maximum memory capability of the cluster (2816 MB per container)
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO Client: Will allocate AM container, with 896 MB memory including 384 MB overhead
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO Client: Setting up container launch context for our AM
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO Client: Setting up the launch environment for our AM container
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO Client: Preparing resources for our AM container
16/03/23 15:21:46 WARN NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO Client: Uploading resource file:/opt/icarotech/spark150/lib/spark-assembly-1.5.0-hadoop2.4.0.jar -> hdfs://10.1.8.109:8020/user/cloudera/.sparkStaging/application_1458754318119_0005/spark-assembly-1.5.0-hadoop2.4.0.jar
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO DFSClient: Exception in createBlockOutputStream
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
	at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method)
	at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:744)
	at org.apache.hadoop.net.SocketIOWithTimeout.connect(SocketIOWithTimeout.java:206)
	at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.connect(NetUtils.java:529)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream.createSocketForPipeline(DFSOutputStream.java:1516)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.createBlockOutputStream(DFSOutputStream.java:1318)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.nextBlockOutputStream(DFSOutputStream.java:1272)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.run(DFSOutputStream.java:525)
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO DFSClient: Abandoning BP-2143973830-127.0.0.1-1458655339361:blk_1073743845_3021
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO DFSClient: Excluding datanode 127.0.0.1:50010
16/03/23 15:21:46 WARN DFSClient: DataStreamer Exception
org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException(java.io.IOException): File /user/cloudera/.sparkStaging/application_1458754318119_0005/spark-assembly-1.5.0-hadoop2.4.0.jar could only be replicated to 0 nodes instead of minReplication (=1).  There are 1 datanode(s) running and 1 node(s) are excluded in this operation.
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockManager.chooseTarget4NewBlock(BlockManager.java:1557)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getAdditionalBlock(FSNamesystem.java:3286)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.addBlock(NameNodeRpcServer.java:676)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.AuthorizationProviderProxyClientProtocol.addBlock(AuthorizationProviderProxyClientProtocol.java:212)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.addBlock(ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.java:483)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.proto.ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos$ClientNamenodeProtocol$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos.java)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Server$ProtoBufRpcInvoker.call(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:617)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:1060)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2086)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2082)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
	at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1671)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:2080)

	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1410)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1363)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Invoker.invoke(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:206)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy12.addBlock(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
	at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invokeMethod(RetryInvocationHandler.java:190)
	at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:103)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy12.addBlock(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.addBlock(ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.java:361)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.locateFollowingBlock(DFSOutputStream.java:1439)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.nextBlockOutputStream(DFSOutputStream.java:1261)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.run(DFSOutputStream.java:525)
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO Client: Deleting staging directory .sparkStaging/application_1458754318119_0005
16/03/23 15:21:46 ERROR SparkContext: Error initializing SparkContext.
org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException(java.io.IOException): File /user/cloudera/.sparkStaging/application_1458754318119_0005/spark-assembly-1.5.0-hadoop2.4.0.jar could only be replicated to 0 nodes instead of minReplication (=1).  There are 1 datanode(s) running and 1 node(s) are excluded in this operation.
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockManager.chooseTarget4NewBlock(BlockManager.java:1557)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getAdditionalBlock(FSNamesystem.java:3286)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.addBlock(NameNodeRpcServer.java:676)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.AuthorizationProviderProxyClientProtocol.addBlock(AuthorizationProviderProxyClientProtocol.java:212)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.addBlock(ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.java:483)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.proto.ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos$ClientNamenodeProtocol$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos.java)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Server$ProtoBufRpcInvoker.call(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:617)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:1060)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2086)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2082)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
	at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1671)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:2080)

	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1410)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1363)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Invoker.invoke(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:206)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy12.addBlock(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
	at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invokeMethod(RetryInvocationHandler.java:190)
	at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:103)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy12.addBlock(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.addBlock(ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.java:361)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.locateFollowingBlock(DFSOutputStream.java:1439)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.nextBlockOutputStream(DFSOutputStream.java:1261)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.run(DFSOutputStream.java:525)
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO SparkUI: Stopped Spark web UI at http://10.1.1.36:4040
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO DAGScheduler: Stopping DAGScheduler
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO YarnClientSchedulerBackend: Stopped
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO MapOutputTrackerMasterEndpoint: MapOutputTrackerMasterEndpoint stopped!
16/03/23 15:21:46 ERROR Utils: Uncaught exception in thread Thread-2
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.spark.network.netty.NettyBlockTransferService.close(NettyBlockTransferService.scala:152)
	at org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManager.stop(BlockManager.scala:1228)
	at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv.stop(SparkEnv.scala:100)
	at org.apache.spark.SparkContext$$anonfun$stop$12.apply$mcV$sp(SparkContext.scala:1740)
	at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.tryLogNonFatalError(Utils.scala:1185)
	at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.stop(SparkContext.scala:1739)
	at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:584)
	at org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext.<init>(JavaSparkContext.scala:61)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
	at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:234)
	at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:379)
	at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:214)
	at py4j.commands.ConstructorCommand.invokeConstructor(ConstructorCommand.java:79)
	at py4j.commands.ConstructorCommand.execute(ConstructorCommand.java:68)
	at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:207)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO SparkContext: Successfully stopped SparkContext
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/icarotech/spark150/python/pyspark/shell.py", line 43, in <module>
    sc = SparkContext(pyFiles=add_files)
  File "/opt/icarotech/spark150/python/pyspark/context.py", line 113, in __init__
    conf, jsc, profiler_cls)
  File "/opt/icarotech/spark150/python/pyspark/context.py", line 170, in _do_init
    self._jsc = jsc or self._initialize_context(self._conf._jconf)
  File "/opt/icarotech/spark150/python/pyspark/context.py", line 224, in _initialize_context
    return self._jvm.JavaSparkContext(jconf)
  File "/opt/icarotech/spark150/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 701, in __call__
  File "/opt/icarotech/spark150/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip/py4j/protocol.py", line 300, in get_return_value
py4j.protocol.Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling None.org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext.
: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException(java.io.IOException): File /user/cloudera/.sparkStaging/application_1458754318119_0005/spark-assembly-1.5.0-hadoop2.4.0.jar could only be replicated to 0 nodes instead of minReplication (=1).  There are 1 datanode(s) running and 1 node(s) are excluded in this operation.
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockManager.chooseTarget4NewBlock(BlockManager.java:1557)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getAdditionalBlock(FSNamesystem.java:3286)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.addBlock(NameNodeRpcServer.java:676)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.AuthorizationProviderProxyClientProtocol.addBlock(AuthorizationProviderProxyClientProtocol.java:212)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.addBlock(ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.java:483)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.proto.ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos$ClientNamenodeProtocol$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos.java)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Server$ProtoBufRpcInvoker.call(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:617)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:1060)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2086)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2082)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
	at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1671)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:2080)

	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1410)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1363)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Invoker.invoke(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:206)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy12.addBlock(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
	at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invokeMethod(RetryInvocationHandler.java:190)
	at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:103)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy12.addBlock(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.addBlock(ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.java:361)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.locateFollowingBlock(DFSOutputStream.java:1439)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.nextBlockOutputStream(DFSOutputStream.java:1261)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.run(DFSOutputStream.java:525)


16/03/23 15:21:48 INFO DiskBlockManager: Shutdown hook called
16/03/23 15:21:48 INFO ShutdownHookManager: Shutdown hook called
16/03/23 15:21:48 INFO ShutdownHookManager: Deleting directory /tmp/spark-17ec3a7c-5e8a-47b6-9b81-8a9804348adf

The same error happens if I try to use spark-shell.

I thought that could be a network problem, because of

16/03/23 15:21:46 INFO DFSClient: Exception in createBlockOutputStream
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

However, I don't have firewalls in any of the machines and both can see each other in the network.

Any idea of a what could be going wrong?

Thanks in advance 🙂