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What is wrong with my boto elastic mapreduce jar jobflow parameters?

I am using the boto library to create a job flow in Amazons Elastic MapReduce Webservice (EMR). The following code should create a step:

step2 = JarStep(name='Find similiar items',
            jar='s3n://recommendertest/mahout-core/mahout-core-0.5-SNAPSHOT.jar',
            main_class='org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.hadoop.similarity.item.ItemSimilarityJob',
            step_args=['s3n://bucket/output/' + run_id + '/aggregate_watched/',
                       's3n://bucket/output/' + run_id + '/similiar_items/',
                       'SIMILARITY_PEARSON_CORRELATION'
                      ])

When I run the job flow, it always fails throwing this error:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/JobContext
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:148)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.run(JobShell.java:54)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.main(JobShell.java:68)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobContext

This is the line in the EMR logs invoking the java code:

2011-01-24T22:18:54.491Z INFO Executing /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java \
-cp /home/hadoop/conf:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/lib/tools.jar:/home/hadoop:/home/hadoop \
/hadoop-0.18-core.jar:/home/hadoop/hadoop-0.18-tools.jar:/home/hadoop/lib/*:/home/hadoop/lib/jetty-ext/* \
-Xmx1000m \
-Dhadoop.log.dir=/mnt/var/log/hadoop/steps/3 \
-Dhadoop.log.file=syslog \
-Dhadoop.home.dir=/home/hadoop \
-Dhadoop.id.str=hadoop \
-Dhadoop.root.logger=INFO,DRFA \
-Djava.io.tmpdir=/mnt/var/lib/hadoop/steps/3/tmp \
-Djava.library.path=/home/hadoop/lib/native/Linux-i386-32 \
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell \
/mnt/var/lib/hadoop/steps/3/mahout-core-0.5-SNAPSHOT.jar \
org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.hadoop.similarity.item.ItemSimilarityJob \
s3n://..../output/job_2011-01-24_23:09:29/aggregate_watched/ \
s3n://..../output/job_2011-01-24_23:09:29/similiar_items/ \
SIMILARITY_PEARSON_CORRELATION

What is wrong with the parameters? The java class definition can be found here:

https://hudson.apache.org/hudson/job/Mahout-Quality/javadoc/org/apache/mahout/cf/taste/hadoop/similarity/item/ItemSimilarityJob.html

Solution

  • I found the solution for the problem:

    1. You need to specify hadoop version 0.20 in the jobflow parameters
    2. You need to run the JAR step with mahout-core-0.5-SNAPSHOT-job.jar, not with the mahout-core-0.5-SNAPSHOT.jar
    3. If you have an additional streaming step in your jobflow, you need to fix a bug in boto:
      1. Open boto/emr/step.py
      2. Change line 138 to "return '/home/hadoop/contrib/streaming/hadoop-streaming.jar'"
      3. Save and reinstall boto

    This is how the job_flow function should be invoked to run with mahout:

    jobid = emr_conn.run_jobflow(name = name, log_uri = 's3n://'+ main_bucket_name +'/emr-logging/', enable_debugging=1, hadoop_version='0.20', steps=[step1,step2])