Introduction

Even though Bigtop releases have a list of supported platforms where we make sure to run the integration tests before doing a release, we encourage everybody to try Bigtop releases on as many different platforms as humanly possible. This page is the place where we document pitfalls and know problems on all platforms Bigtop has been tried on.

RHEL6/CentOS6

getpwuid_r is not thread-safe

More info here: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0560.html and here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7156