@kimanore For the Error snippet you mentioned is related with permission which seems fixed as you said [1]. However for the cannery test you have to see the logs, also you mentioned that you forget to stop cluster I guess that's okay you can still make this workable.    [1] These step can also fit that.  a) Namenode => Actions => Format b) For JobHistory: ===> All you need to do is: kinit as hdfs if Kerberized or sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfs -mkdir -p /user/history/done [2] hdfs dfs -mkdir /user hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/history hdfs dfs -mkdir /tmp hdfs dfs -mkdir /tmp/logs hdfs dfs -chown mapred:mapred /user/history hdfs dfs -chown mapred:mapred /tmp/logs   ... View more