I tried the instruction above however it looks like I am running into classpath issues.   [cloudera@quickstart ~]$ sudo service accumulo-master init NOTE: it is strongly recommended that you override the following defaults in /etc/accumulo/conf/accumulo-site.xml: Set logger.dir.walog to a directory on a partition with sufficient space for write-ahead logs Set tracer.user and tracer.password to values of your choosing Initializing Accumulo: [ OK ] Thread "init" died org/apache/htrace/core/Tracer$Builder java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/htrace/core/Tracer$Builder at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FsTracer.get(FsTracer.java:42) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.createFileSystem(FileSystem.java:2683) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.access$200(FileSystem.java:94) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.getInternal(FileSystem.java:2733) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.get(FileSystem.java:2715) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:382) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:181) at org.apache.accumulo.core.volume.VolumeConfiguration.getConfiguredBaseDir(VolumeConfiguration.java:74) at org.apache.accumulo.core.volume.VolumeConfiguration.getVolumeUris(VolumeConfiguration.java:96) at org.apache.accumulo.server.fs.VolumeManagerImpl.get(VolumeManagerImpl.java:407) at org.apache.accumulo.server.init.Initialize.main(Initialize.java:614) 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.accumulo.start.Main$1.run(Main.java:141) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.htrace.core.Tracer$Builder   Not sure why I am getting class errors for htrace, didn't think that was required for Accumulo?  Or is that because the CDH repos build accumulo with htrace in the class path?   Any ideas? ... View more