Mac spark-shell Error initializing SparkContext

Question

I tried to start spark 1.6.0 (spark-1.6.0-bin-hadoop2.4) on Mac OS Yosemite 10.10.5 using

\"./bin/spark-shell\". 

It has the error below.

Answer 1

Just set the spark.driver.host to be your localhost if you use IDE

SparkConf conf = new  SparkConf().setMaster("local[2]").setAppName("AnyName").set("spark.driver.host", "localhost");
JavaSparkContext sc = new JavaSparkContext(conf);