2015-12-02 10:38:40,579 (conf-file-poller-0) [ERROR - org.apache.flume.node.PollingPropertiesFileConfigurationProvider$FileWatcherRunnable.run(PollingPropertiesFileConfigurationProvider.java:145)] Failed to start agent because dependencies were not found in classpath. Error follows. java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/io/SequenceFile$CompressionType at org.apache.flume.sink.hdfs.HDFSEventSink.configure(HDFSEventSink.java:251) at org.apache.flume.conf.Configurables.configure(Configurables.java:41) at org.apache.flume.node.AbstractConfigurationProvider.loadSinks(AbstractConfigurationProvider.java:418) at org.apache.flume.node.AbstractConfigurationProvider.getConfiguration(AbstractConfigurationProvider.java:103) at org.apache.flume.node.PollingPropertiesFileConfigurationProvider$FileWatcherRunnable.run(PollingPropertiesFileConfigurationProvider.java:140) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:304) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:178) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$CompressionType at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358) ... 12 more
缺少HDFS依赖库，从hadoop下拷贝相应的jar包到flume的lib下。
commons-configuration-1.6.jar commons-daemon-1.0.13.jar hadoop-auth-2.6.0.jar hadoop-common-2.6.0.jar hadoop-hdfs-2.6.0.jar hadoop-hdfs-nfs-2.6.0.jar hadoop-nfs-2.6.0.jar htrace-core-3.0.4.jar
可能有多：-）