Failed to locate the winutils binary in the hadoop binary path

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I am getting the following error while starting namenode for latest hadoop-2 2 release  I didn t find winutils exe  file in hadoop bin folder  I tried below commands    bin hdfs namenode -format   sbin yarn-daemon sh start resourcemanager  ERROR  main  util Shell  Shell java getWinUtilsPath 303   - 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  lt clinit gt  Shell java 293      at org apache hadoop util StringUtils  lt clinit gt  StringUtils java 76      at org apache hadoop yarn server resourcemanager ResourceManager main ResourceManager java 863

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Winutils exe is used for running the shell commands for SPARK   When you need to run the Spark without installing Hadoop  you need this file    Steps are as follows    Download the winutils exe from following location for hadoop 2 7 1 https   github com steveloughran winutils tree master hadoop-2 7 1 bin  NOTE  If you are using separate hadoop version then please download the winutils from corresponding hadoop version folder on GITHUB from the location as mentioned above   Now  create a folder  winutils  in C   drive  Now create a folder  bin  inside folder  winutils  and copy the winutils exe in that folder   So the location of winutils exe will be C  winutils bin winutils exe Now  open environment variable and set HADOOP HOME C  winutils  NOTE  Please do not add  bin in HADOOP HOME and no need to set HADOOP HOME in Path    Your issue must be resolved

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If you face this problem when running a self-contained local application with Spark  i e   after adding spark-assembly-x x x-hadoopx x x jar or the Maven dependency to the project   a simpler solution would be to put winutils exe  download from here  in  C  winutil bin   Then you can add winutils exe to the hadoop home directory by adding the following line to the code    System setProperty  hadoop home dir    c    winutil        Source  Click here

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Simple Solution  Download it from here and add to  HADOOP HOME bin   Source   IMPORTANT UPDATE   For hadoop-2 6 0 you can download binaries from Titus Barik blog      I have not only needed to point HADOOP HOME to extracted directory  path   but also provide system property -Djava library path  path  bin to load native libs  dll

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Download desired version of hadoop folder  Say if you are installing spark on Windows then hadoop version for which your spark is built for  from this link as zip    Extract the zip to desired directory  You need to have directory of the form hadoop bin  explicitly create such hadoop bin directory structure if you want  with bin containing all the files contained in bin folder of the downloaded hadoop  This will contain many files such as hdfs dll  hadoop dll etc  in addition to winutil exe   Now create environment variable HADOOP HOME and set it to  lt path-to-hadoop-folder gt  hadoop  Then add   HADOOP HOME  bin  to PATH environment variable   Open a  new command prompt  and try rerunning your command

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I was getting the same issue in windows  I fixed it by    Downloading hadoop-common-2 2 0-bin-master from link  Create a user variable HADOOP HOME in Environment variable and assign the path of hadoop-common bin directory as a value  You can verify it by running hadoop in cmd  Restart the IDE and Run it

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I was facing the same problem  Removing the bin  from the HADOOP HOME path solved it for me  The path for HADOOP HOME variable should look something like   C  dev hadoop2 6    System restart may be needed  In my case  restarting the IDE was sufficient

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You can download winutils exe here   http   public-repo-1 hortonworks com hdp-win-alpha winutils exe  Then copy it to your HADOOP HOME bin directory

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In Pyspark  to run local spark application using Pycharm use below lines  os environ  HADOOP HOME      C   winutils  print os environ  HADOOP HOME

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I just ran into this issue while working with Eclipse  In my case  I had the correct Hadoop version downloaded  hadoop-2 5 0-cdh5 3 0 tgz   I extracted the contents and placed it directly in my C drive  Then I went to   Eclipse- Debug Run Configurations -  Environment  tab  -  and added  variable  HADOOP HOME  Value  C  hadoop-2 5 0-cdh5 3 0

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The statement java io IOException  Could not locate executable null bin winutils exe  explains that the null is received when expanding or replacing an Environment Variable  If you see the Source in Shell Java in Common Package you will find that HADOOP HOME variable is not getting set and you are receiving null in place of that and hence the error   So  HADOOP HOME needs to be set for this properly or the variable hadoop home dir property   Hope this helps   Thanks  Kamleshwar

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If we directly take the binary distribution of Apache Hadoop 2 2 0 release and try to run it on Microsoft Windows  then we ll encounter ERROR util Shell  Failed to locate the winutils binary in the hadoop binary path   The binary distribution of Apache Hadoop 2 2 0 release does not contain some windows native components  like winutils exe  hadoop dll etc   These are required  not optional  to run Hadoop on Windows   So you need to build windows native binary distribution of hadoop from source codes following  BUILD txt  file located inside the source distribution of hadoop  You can follow the following posts as well for step by step guide with screen shot  Build  Install  Configure and Run Apache Hadoop 2 2 0 in Microsoft Windows OS   ERROR util Shell  Failed to locate the winutils binary in the hadoop binary path

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I used  hbase-1 3 0  and  hadoop-2 7 3  versions  Setting HADOOP HOME environment variable and copying  winutils exe  file under HADOOP HOME bin folder solves the problem on a windows os  Attention to set HADOOP HOME environment to the installation folder of hadoop  bin folder is not necessary for these versions   Additionally I preferred using cross platform tool cygwin to settle linux os functionality  as possible as it can  because Hbase team recommend linux unix env

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Set up HADOOP HOME variable in windows to resolve the problem   You can find answer in org apache hadoop hadoop-common 2 2 0 hadoop-common-2 2 0-sources jar  org apache hadoop util Shell java    IOException from     public static final String getQualifiedBinPath String executable     throws IOException          construct hadoop bin path to the specified executable     String fullExeName   HADOOP HOME DIR   File separator    bin           File separator   executable      File exeFile   new File fullExeName       if   exeFile exists            throw new IOException  Could not locate executable     fullExeName             in the Hadoop binaries               return exeFile getCanonicalPath          HADOOP HOME DIR from      first check the Dflag hadoop home dir with JVM scope String home   System getProperty  hadoop home dir       fall back to the system user-global env variable if  home    null      home   System getenv  HADOOP HOME

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Download  winutils exe     From URL   https   github com steveloughran winutils hadoop-version bin   Past it under HADOOP HOME bin  Note   You should Set environmental variables  User variable  Variable  HADOOP HOME Value  Hadoop or spark dir

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winutils exe are required  for hadoop to perform hadoop related commands  please download  hadoop-common-2 2 0 zip file  winutils exe can be found in  bin folder  Extract the zip file and copy it in the local hadoop bin folder

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