It seems as though you are running sqoop with a JRE - But JAVA_HOME set to JDK

Question

I tried to set up sqoop (sqoop-1.4.3.bin__hadoop-1.0.0) on Ubuntu. I can run the basic sqoop help etc without problems. When I run the following I get an error:

Answer 1

Sqoop will eventually execute Hadoop shell script, so I would make sure that your Hadoop is configured properly to use the JDK instead of JRE.