Accumulo on Cloudera CDH4 - Access denied when starting components - hadoop

Question

I have a small cluster up and running with Cloudera CDH4 Hadoop and Map Reduce v1. Namenode/Secondary Namenode/Jobtracker all on different machines. My three servers are also acting as Zookeeper servers.
I'm trying to install Accumulo 1.4.4 on top of this cluster. I get the same behavior with Accumulo 1.5.0. I am able to bin/accumulo init and initialize Accumulo, but starting the individual components fail. I'm trying to make my Namenode the Accumulo master.
bin/start-server.sh localhost monitor spits out a very encouraging Starting monitor on localhost, but nothing gets started. If I examine logs/monitor_localhost.err I find a stacktrace:
-bash-4.1$ cat logs/monitor_localhost.err
Thread "monitor" died null
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:622)
at org.apache.accumulo.start.Main$1.run(Main.java:91)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:701)
Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache$Key.<init>(FileSystem.java:2464)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache$Key.<init>(FileSystem.java:2456)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.get(FileSystem.java:2323)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:351)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:163)
at org.apache.accumulo.core.file.FileUtil.getFileSystem(FileUtil.java:554)
at org.apache.accumulo.core.client.ZooKeeperInstance.getInstanceIDFromHdfs(ZooKeeperInstance.java:258)
at org.apache.accumulo.server.conf.ZooConfiguration.getInstance(ZooConfiguration.java:65)
at org.apache.accumulo.server.conf.ServerConfiguration.getZooConfiguration(ServerConfiguration.java:49)
at org.apache.accumulo.server.conf.ServerConfiguration.getSystemConfiguration(ServerConfiguration.java:58)
at org.apache.accumulo.server.monitor.Monitor.run(Monitor.java:440)
at org.apache.accumulo.server.monitor.Monitor.main(Monitor.java:433)
... 6 more
Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.lang.RuntimePermission accessDeclaredMembers)
at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:399)
at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:557)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:549)
at java.lang.Class.checkMemberAccess(Class.java:2237)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields(Class.java:1805)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.getDeclaredFieldsIncludingInherited(ReflectionUtils.java:315)
at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.MetricsSourceBuilder.initRegistry(MetricsSourceBuilder.java:92)
at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.MetricsSourceBuilder.<init>(MetricsSourceBuilder.java:56)
at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.MetricsAnnotations.newSourceBuilder(MetricsAnnotations.java:42)
at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsSystemImpl.register(MetricsSystemImpl.java:212)
at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.MetricsSystem.register(MetricsSystem.java:54)
at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation$UgiMetrics.create(UserGroupInformation.java:97)
at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.<clinit>(UserGroupInformation.java:190)
... 18 more
The AccessControlException: access denied looks like the important line to me, but I can't imagine what access is being restricted. I'm running everything as the hdfs user, which owns the entire /opt/accumulo-1.4.4/ directory where accumulo is un-tarred. The /accumulo directory in HDFS is also owned by the hdfs user. SELinux is permissive. Searching online has proved fruitless, has anyone dealt with this error before?
Much thanks.

Answer 1

I started browsing the Apache accumulo-users mailing list archive and came across the solution.
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/accumulo-user/201312.mbox/%3CB9CB2B2BF27F0F46B8ECF781831E00E710970A9F%400015-its-exmb10.us.saic.com%3E
I was copying the accumulo.policy.example to accumulo.policy because I thought I needed it in my configuration. Once I deleted the accumulo.policy file my issues went away and I've been able to stand up Accumulo (1.5.0 at least, 1.4.4 still has some issues for me)