Mahout: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wrong FS: file:/... expected: hdfs://
Date: 2016-07-21 17:57:41

I've been playing around with Mahout over the last couple of days to see how well it works for content based filtering.

I started following http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22789986/does-mahout-provide-a-way-to-determine-similarity-between-content-for-content-b/22830903#22830903[a mini tutorial from Stack Overflow] but ran into trouble on the first step:

[source,bash]
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bin/mahout seqdirectory \
--input file:///Users/markneedham/Downloads/apache-mahout-distribution-0.12.2/foo \
--output file:///Users/markneedham/Downloads/apache-mahout-distribution-0.12.2/foo-out \
-c UTF-8 \
-chunk 64 \
-prefix mah
----

[source,bash]
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16/07/21 21:19:20 INFO AbstractJob: Command line arguments: {--charset=[UTF-8], --chunkSize=[64], --endPhase=[2147483647], --fileFilterClass=[org.apache.mahout.text.PrefixAdditionFilter], --input=[file:///Users/markneedham/Downloads/apache-mahout-distribution-0.12.2/foo], --keyPrefix=[mah], --method=[mapreduce], --output=[file:///Users/markneedham/Downloads/apache-mahout-distribution-0.12.2/foo-out], --startPhase=[0], --tempDir=[temp]}
16/07/21 21:19:20 WARN NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
16/07/21 21:19:20 INFO deprecation: mapred.input.dir is deprecated. Instead, use mapreduce.input.fileinputformat.inputdir
16/07/21 21:19:20 INFO deprecation: mapred.compress.map.output is deprecated. Instead, use mapreduce.map.output.compress
16/07/21 21:19:20 INFO deprecation: mapred.output.dir is deprecated. Instead, use mapreduce.output.fileoutputformat.outputdir
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wrong FS: file:/Users/markneedham/Downloads/apache-mahout-distribution-0.12.2/foo, expected: hdfs://localhost:8020
	at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.checkPath(FileSystem.java:646)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.getPathName(DistributedFileSystem.java:194)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.access$000(DistributedFileSystem.java:106)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$22.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:1305)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$22.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:1301)
	at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystemLinkResolver.resolve(FileSystemLinkResolver.java:81)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.getFileStatus(DistributedFileSystem.java:1301)
	at org.apache.mahout.text.SequenceFilesFromDirectory.runMapReduce(SequenceFilesFromDirectory.java:156)
	at org.apache.mahout.text.SequenceFilesFromDirectory.run(SequenceFilesFromDirectory.java:90)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:84)
	at org.apache.mahout.text.SequenceFilesFromDirectory.main(SequenceFilesFromDirectory.java:64)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver$ProgramDescription.invoke(ProgramDriver.java:71)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver.run(ProgramDriver.java:144)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver.driver(ProgramDriver.java:152)
	at org.apache.mahout.driver.MahoutDriver.main(MahoutDriver.java:195)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)
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I was trying to run the command against the local file system on my laptop which should have been possible according to the instructions. I couldn't find any flag I could pass any flag that I could pass to Mahout to tell it not to use HDFS but I eventually stumbled on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23779976/java-lang-illegalargumentexception-wrong-fs-expected-hdfs-localhost9000[someone else experiencing a similar problem].

It turns out the last time I was playing around with Hadoop, in late 2015, I'd actually configured that and had completely forgotten. I needed to comment out the following config:

_/usr/local/Cellar/hadoop/2.7.1/libexec/etc/hadoop/core-site.xml_

[source,xml]
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<property>
    <name>fs.default.name</name>
    <value>hdfs://localhost:8020</value>
</property>
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I commented that property out and all was happy with the (Hadoop) world again.