Failed to locate the winutils binary in the hadoop binary path

Question

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 nullinwinutils.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.<clinit>(Shell.java:293)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.StringUtils.<clinit>(StringUtils.java:76)
    at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ResourceManager.main(ResourceManager.java:863)

Answer 1

Simple Solution: Download it from here and add to $HADOOP_HOME/bin

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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]in to load native libs (dll).