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I'm not able to run a simple spark job in Scala IDE (Maven spark project) installed on Windows 7

Spark core dependency has been added.

val conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("DemoDF").setMaster("local")
val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
val logData = sc.textFile("File.txt")
logData.count()

Error:

16/02/26 18:29:33 INFO SparkContext: Created broadcast 0 from textFile at FrameDemo.scala:13
16/02/26 18:29:34 ERROR Shell: Failed to locate the winutils binary in the hadoop binary path
java.io.IOException: Could not locate executable null\bin\winutils.exe in the Hadoop binaries.
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.getQualifiedBinPath(Shell.java:278)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.getWinUtilsPath(Shell.java:300)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.<clinit>(Shell.java:293)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.StringUtils.<clinit>(StringUtils.java:76)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(FileInputFormat.java:362)
    at <br>org.apache.spark.SparkContext$$anonfun$hadoopFile$1$$anonfun$33.apply(SparkContext.scala:1015)
    at org.apache.spark.SparkContext$$anonfun$hadoopFile$1$$anonfun$33.apply(SparkContext.scala:1015)
    at <br>org.apache.spark.rdd.HadoopRDD$$anonfun$getJobConf$6.apply(HadoopRDD.scala:176)
    at <br>org.apache.spark.rdd.HadoopRDD$$anonfun$getJobConf$6.apply(HadoopRDD.scala:176)<br>
    at scala.Option.map(Option.scala:145)<br>
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.HadoopRDD.getJobConf(HadoopRDD.scala:176)<br>
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.HadoopRDD.getPartitions(HadoopRDD.scala:195)<br>
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$partitions$2.apply(RDD.scala:239)<br>
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$partitions$2.apply(RDD.scala:237)<br>
    at scala.Option.getOrElse(Option.scala:120)<br>
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.partitions(RDD.scala:237)<br>
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.getPartitions(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:35)<br>
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$partitions$2.apply(RDD.scala:239)<br>
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$partitions$2.apply(RDD.scala:237)<br>
    at scala.Option.getOrElse(Option.scala:120)<br>
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.partitions(RDD.scala:237)<br>
    at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1929)<br>
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.count(RDD.scala:1143)<br>
    at com.org.SparkDF.FrameDemo$.main(FrameDemo.scala:14)<br>
    at com.org.SparkDF.FrameDemo.main(FrameDemo.scala)<br>

eclipsescalaapache-spark share  improve this question  follow  edited Jan 30 '17 at 20:56 Glenn Slayden 13.8k33 gold badges8383 silver badges9595 bronze badges asked Feb 26 '16 at 13:12 Elvish_Blade 97011 gold badge99 silver badges1212 bronze badges add a comment

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Here is a good explanation of your problem with the solution.

1. Download winutils.exe from http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/hdp-win-alpha/winutils.exe.

2. SetUp your HADOOP_HOME environment variable on the OS level or programmatically:

   System.setProperty("hadoop.home.dir", "full path to the folder with winutils");

3. Enjoy

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• 14 I have to set HADOOP_HOME to hadoop folder instead of the bin folder. – Stanley Aug 29 '16 at 7:44
• 4 Also, be sure to download the correct winutils.exe based on the version of hadoop that spark is compiled for (so, not necessarily the link above). Otherwise, pain awaits :) – NP3 Jun 30 '17 at 12:14
•   System.setProperty("hadoop.home.dir", "C:\\hadoop-2.7.1\\") – Shyam Gupta Oct 14 '17 at 19:00
• 1 yes exactly as @Stanley says. worked with setting up the HADOOP_HOME to hadoop folder instead of the bin folder. – Jazz Apr 9 '19 at 13:09
•   @NP3 and how do you know that version? I am using latest pyspark. Thanks, – JDPeckham Nov 10 '19 at 19:12

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1. Download winutils.exe
2. Create folder, say C:\winutils\bin
3. Copy winutils.exe inside C:\winutils\bin
4. Set environment variable HADOOP_HOME to C:\winutils

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•   also, if you have a cmd line open, restart it for the variables to take affect. – eych Aug 21 '19 at 16:51

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Follow this:

1. Create a bin folder in any directory(to be used in step 3).

2. Download winutils.exe and place it in the bin directory.

3. Now add System.setProperty("hadoop.home.dir", "PATH/TO/THE/DIR"); in your code.

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• 2 Thanks a lot, just what i was looking for – user373201 Feb 27 '17 at 2:59
• 3 It is to be noted that the path to be pointed should not include the 'bin' directory. Ex: If the path where winutils.exe is "D://Hadoop//bin//winutils.exe" , then the path for hadoop.home.dir should be "D://Hadoop" – Keshav Pradeep Ramanath May 31 '18 at 10:30

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if we see below issue

ERROR Shell: Failed to locate the winutils binary in the hadoop binary path

java.io.IOException: Could not locate executable null\bin\winutils.exe in the Hadoop binaries.

then do following steps

1. download winutils.exe from http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/hdp- win-alpha/winutils.exe.
2. and keep this under bin folder of any folder you created for.e.g. C:\Hadoop\bin
3. and in program add following line before creating SparkContext or SparkConf System.setProperty("hadoop.home.dir", "C:\Hadoop");

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On Windows 10 - you should add two different arguments.

(1) Add the new variable and value as - HADOOP_HOME and path (i.e. c:\Hadoop) under System Variables.

(2) Add/append new entry to the "Path" variable as "C:\Hadoop\bin".

The above worked for me.

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1) Download winutils.exe from https://github.com/steveloughran/winutils 
2) Create a directory In windows "C:\winutils\bin
3) Copy the winutils.exe inside the above bib folder .
4) Set the environmental property in the code 
  System.setProperty("hadoop.home.dir", "file:///C:/winutils/");
5) Create a folder "file:///C:/temp" and give 777 permissions.
6) Add config property in spark Session ".config("spark.sql.warehouse.dir", "file:///C:/temp")"

share  improve this answer  follow  answered Sep 30 '18 at 7:39 Sampat Kumar 30611 gold badge22 silver badges1212 bronze badges add a comment 2

I got the same problem while running unit tests. I found this workaround solution:

The following workaround allows to get rid of this message:

    File workaround = new File(".");
    System.getProperties().put("hadoop.home.dir", workaround.getAbsolutePath());
    new File("./bin").mkdirs();
    new File("./bin/winutils.exe").createNewFile();

from: https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/DISTRO-544

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You can alternatively download winutils.exe from GITHub:

https://github.com/steveloughran/winutils/tree/master/hadoop-2.7.1/bin

replace hadoop-2.7.1 with the version you want and place the file in D:\hadoop\bin

If you do not have access rights to the environment variable settings on your machine, simply add the below line to your code:

System.setProperty("hadoop.home.dir", "D:\\hadoop");