/conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

[Srinivasa Rao]

I am getting error "/conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found " while starting the hadoop. see the output. 

Can you please let me know why it is giving the command not found. but it seem that is running fine.

srini@srini-VirtualBox:~/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1$ bin/start-all.sh

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

starting namenode, logging to /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../logs/hadoop-srini-namenode-srini-VirtualBox.out

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

localhost: /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

localhost: /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

localhost: starting datanode, logging to /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../logs/hadoop-srini-datanode-srini-VirtualBox.out

localhost: /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

localhost: /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

localhost: /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

localhost: starting secondarynamenode, logging to /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../logs/hadoop-srini-secondarynamenode-srini-VirtualBox.out

localhost: /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

starting jobtracker, logging to /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../logs/hadoop-srini-jobtracker-srini-VirtualBox.out

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

localhost: /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

localhost: /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

localhost: starting tasktracker, logging to /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../logs/hadoop-srini-tasktracker-srini-VirtualBox.out

localhost: /home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

srini@srini-VirtualBox:~/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1$ 

The log file output:

/home/srini/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../conf/hadoop-env.sh: line 1: #: command not found

ulimit -a for user srini

core file size          (blocks, -c) 0

data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited

scheduling priority             (-e) 0

file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited

pending signals                 (-i) 31459

max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 64

max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited

open files                      (-n) 1024

pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8

POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200

real-time priority              (-r) 0

stack size              (kbytes, -s) 8192

cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited

max user processes              (-u) 31459

virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited

file locks                      (-x) unlimited

[Srinivasa Rao]

The problem is resolved.

[Nitesh Jain]

Wow great! What was the issue?

[Srinivasa Rao]

I dont know what is problem but I think it might have some space in the /hadoop-env.sh file. 

I just deleted the JAVA_HOME line and added again. It is working fine. 

Thanks your help.

-Srini