# Hail object initiation Error message

**URL:** <https://discuss.hail.is/t/hail-object-initiation-error-message/1100>\
**Category:** Hail Query & hailctl\
**Created:** [September 29, 2019, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/hail-object-initiation-error-message/1100 "2019-09-29T07:09:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mohamed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mohamed](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Mohamed)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/hail-object-initiation-error-message/1100/1 "2019-09-29T07:09:26Z")

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I successfuly downloaded and installed it, it is a good starting for me, however I got this error message when I run this code,  
hl.init()  
error message is very long I just took a few lines of code  
Py4JJavaError Traceback (most recent call last)  
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----\> 1 hl.init()

\</home/malfaki/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/decorator.py:decorator-gen-1203\> in init(sc, app\_name, master, local, log, quiet, append, min\_block\_size, branching\_factor, tmp\_dir, default\_reference, idempotent, global\_seed, \_optimizer\_iterations, \_backend)

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**Author:** ![tpoterba](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.hail.is/tpoterba/32/61_2.png) [@tpoterba](https://discuss.hail.is/u/tpoterba)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/hail-object-initiation-error-message/1100/2 "2019-09-29T20:44:48Z")

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can you post the full error message? Thanks.