title: Hadoop word count example without root permissions
body: <p>I am trying to run this hadoop word count example on a Linux machine without root permissions. I keep getting this error all the time, though.</p>
  
  <pre><code>13/08/27 16:00:08 ERROR security.UserGroupInformation: PriviledgedActionException as:priyankara cause:org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerNotYetInitializedException: JobTracker is not yet RUNNING
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.checkJobTrackerState(JobTracker.java:5199)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.getNewJobId(JobTracker.java:3543)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:587)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1432)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1428)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
      at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1190)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:1426)
  
  org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerNotYetInitializedException: JobTracker is not yet RUNNING
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.checkJobTrackerState(JobTracker.java:5199)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.getNewJobId(JobTracker.java:3543)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:587)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1432)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1428)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
      at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1190)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:1426)
  
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1113)
      at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Invoker.invoke(RPC.java:229)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.$Proxy2.getNewJobId(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
      at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invokeMethod(RetryInvocationHandler.java:85)
      at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:62)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.$Proxy2.getNewJobId(Unknown Source)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient$2.run(JobClient.java:944)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient$2.run(JobClient.java:936)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
      at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1190)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJobInternal(JobClient.java:936)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.submit(Job.java:550)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.waitForCompletion(Job.java:580)
      at org.apache.hadoop.examples.WordCount.main(WordCount.java:82)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
      at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver$ProgramDescription.invoke(ProgramDriver.java:68)
      at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver.driver(ProgramDriver.java:139)
      at org.apache.hadoop.examples.ExampleDriver.main(ExampleDriver.java:64)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
      at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:160)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What is happening? How can I fix this?</p>
  
  <p>I think the problem is I don't have root permission on that machine. Is there a way to run this example without root permission or not?</p>