I just configured Eclipse with the development environment for Hadoop(v 1.0.1). When I run one of the tests /src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/BenchmarkThroughput.java it crashes with a NullPointerException.
The problem seems to be in BenchmarkThroughput.run(), line 196 where it does System.setProperty("test.build.data", localDir). The localDir shows up as null because mapred.temp.dir is not set.
How should I correct this problem? Should I set the value of mapred.temp.dir in core-site.xml or is there a problem in the way I configured Eclipse?