title: Hadoop Configuration Error
body: <p>I am attempting to start up my hadoop application, however upon startup i am seeing this in the log files, does anyone have a clue as to what the problem is?</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Creating filesystem for hdfs://10.170.4.141:9000
        java.io.IOException: config()
            at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.(Configuration.java:229)
            at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.(Configuration.java:216)
            at org.apache.hadoop.security.SecurityUtil.(SecurityUtil.java:60)
            at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.makeSocketAddr(NetUtils.java:188)
            at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.createSocketAddr(NetUtils.java:168)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.getAddress(NameNode.java:198)
            at   org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.initialize(DistributedFileSystem.java:88)
            at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.createFileSystem(FileSystem.java:1413)
            at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.access$200(FileSystem.java:68)
            at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.get(FileSystem.java:1431)
            at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:256)
            at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:125)
            at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:240)
            at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.getFileSystem(Path.java:187)
            at  org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat.addInputPath(FileInputFormat.java:372)
            at org.blismedia.VolumeReportGenerateUpdates.main(VolumeReportGenerateUpdates.java:156)
            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:187)</p>
  </blockquote>