Flume-- Could not find the main class: org.apache.flume.tools.GetJavaProperty

I am using cloudera CDH 4.4.When I ran the flume cmd -

"bin/flume-ng agent -n agentA -f conf/MultipleFlumes.properties -Dflume.root.logger=INFO,console"

I got an error:

[cloudera@localhost Flume]$ bin/flume-ng agent -n agentA -f conf/MultipleFlumes.properties -Dflume.root.logger=INFO,console
Warning: No configuration directory set! Use --conf <dir> to override.
Info: Including Hadoop libraries found via (/usr/bin/hadoop) for HDFS access
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/flume/tools/GetJavaProperty
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.flume.tools.GetJavaProperty
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
Could not find the main class: org.apache.flume.tools.GetJavaProperty.  Program will exit.
Info: Excluding /usr/lib/hadoop/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar from classpath
Info: Excluding /usr/lib/hadoop/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar from classpath
Info: Excluding /usr/lib/hadoop-0.20-mapreduce/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar from classpath
Info: Including HBASE libraries found via (/usr/bin/hbase) for HBASE access
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/flume/tools/GetJavaProperty
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.flume.tools.GetJavaProperty
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
Could not find the main class: org.apache.flume.tools.GetJavaProperty.  Program will exit.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/flume/node/Application
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.flume.node.Application
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
Could not find the main class: org.apache.flume.node.Application.  Program will exit.

I tried to echo HADOOP_HOME but it returned blank. What is the problem in above command? Please guide.

Solution

First of all, add the -c parameter to the command like this:

bin/flume-ng agent -n agentA -c conf -f conf/MultipleFlumes.properties -Dflume.root.logger=INFO,console

Adding that parameter does not resolve the issue but if you don't include it you get another error because of log4j configuration file.

As for your problem, check if FLUME_HOME is defined, and if that is the case, unset it with

unset FLUME_HOME