Hadoop java.io.IOException: Mkdirs failed to create /some/path
Just ran into this problem running mahout from CDH4 in standalone mode in my MacBook Air. The issue is that a /tmp/hadoop-xxx/xxx/LICENSE file and a /tmp/hadoop-xxx/xxx/license directory are being created on a case-insensitive file system when unjarring the mahout jobs. I was able to workaround this by deleting META-INF/LICENSE from the jar file like this: … Read more