title: error while uploading data on hdfs from local file
body: <p>Hi I have just started working on Hadoop. When I am trying to upload data on HDFS to run a mapreduce job on hadoop. I am encountering problems. I run the below command</p>
  
  <pre><code>hduser@bharti-desktop:/home/maitreyee/hadoop$ bin/hadoop dfs -copyFromLocal /home/hduser/gutenberg /user/hduser/gutenberg
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and following error pops up in the terminal:</p>
  
  <pre><code>14/12/04 16:59:48 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not &lt;property&gt;
  14/12/04 16:59:48 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not &lt;property&gt;
  14/12/04 16:59:48 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not &lt;property&gt;
  14/12/04 16:59:48 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not &lt;property&gt;
  14/12/04 16:59:48 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not &lt;property&gt;
  14/12/04 16:59:48 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not &lt;property&gt;
  14/12/04 16:59:49 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not &lt;property&gt;
  14/12/04 16:59:49 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not &lt;property&gt;
  14/12/04 16:59:49 WARN conf.Configuration: bad conf file: element not &lt;property&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using ubuntu 12.04 LTS and hadoop 1.2.1. Kindly suggest any possible solution.
  Thanks in advance.</p>