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Posted to mapreduce-user@hadoop.apache.org by Stephen Boesch <ja...@gmail.com> on 2011/10/26 08:19:16 UTC
Namenode in inconsistent state: how to reinitialize the storage directory
I am relatively new here and starting the CDH3u1 (on vmware). The
nameserver is not coming up due to the following error:
2011-10-25 22:47:00,547 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.Storage:
Cannot access storage directory /var/lib/hadoop-0.20/cache/hadoop/dfs/name
2011-10-25 22:47:00,549 ERROR
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem: FSNamesystem
initialization failed.
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.InconsistentFSStateException: Directory
/var/lib/hadoop-0.20/cache/hadoop/dfs/name is in an inconsistent state:
storage directory does not exist or is not accessible.
at
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.recoverTransitionRead(FSImage.java:305)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.loadFSImage(FSDirectory.java:99)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.initialize(FSNamesystem.java:358)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:327)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:271)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:465)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1224)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1233)
Now, I first noticed there was a "lock" file. So I sudo rm'ed it and
retried. But same error. Then, not knowing what files are required (if any)
to restart, I moved the entire dir and created a new empty one. Here are
both the new and the 'sav" dirs
cloudera@cloudera-demo:/usr/lib/hadoop/logs$ ll
/var/lib/hadoop-0.20/cache/hadoop/dfs/name
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 hdfs hdfs 4096 2011-10-25 23:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 hdfs hadoop 4096 2011-10-25 23:11 ..
cloudera@cloudera-demo:/usr/lib/hadoop/logs$ ll
/var/lib/hadoop-0.20/cache/hadoop/dfs/name.sav
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 hdfs hdfs 4096 2011-01-24 15:24 image
drwxr-xr-x 2 hdfs hdfs 4096 2011-09-25 11:49 previous.checkpoint
drwxr-xr-x 2 hdfs hdfs 4096 2011-10-25 21:01 current
drwxr-xr-x 5 hdfs hdfs 4096 2011-10-25 23:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 hdfs hadoop 4096 2011-10-25 23:11 ..
So then, any recommendations on how to proceed?
thanks
Re: Namenode in inconsistent state: how to reinitialize the storage directory
Posted by Brock Noland <br...@cloudera.com>.
Moving this discussion to CDH-USER since it sounds like it's the Cloudera VM.
BCC mapreduce-user
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Stephen Boesch <ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I found a suggestion to reformat the namenode. In order to do so, I found
> it necessary to set the dir to 777. AFter
>
> $ sudo chmod 777 /var/lib/hadoop-0.20/cache/hadoop/dfs/name
> $ ./hadoop namenode -format
What user was this executed as? In the VM & CDH package install
NameNode/DataNode run as hdfs while JobTracker/TaskTracker run as
mapred.
As such, if you executed the format command as:
sudo -u hdfs
You shouldn't need 777 permissions.
> (successful)
> $ ./hadoop-daemon.sh --config $HADOOP/conf start namenode
> (success!)
CDH comes with init startup scripts:
/etc/init.d/hadoop-0.20-namenode
/etc/init.d/hadoop-0.20-datanode
/etc/init.d/hadoop-0.20-jobtracker
/etc/init.d/hadoop-0.20-tasktracker
/etc/init.d/hadoop-0.20-secondarynamenode
However, based on the commands you have executed above, at this point,
I think you'd need to some chow'ing to use the init scripts.
> So.. this leads to a related question: What gives with these permissions?
> Maybe this is cloudera specific. I am logged in to cloudera user,. but
> these directories have owners/groups with a mix of hadoop, mapred, hbase,
> hdfs, etc. When i look in /etc/passwd and /etc/group there is no clear
> indication that cloudera should be able to access files owned by members of
> those groups.
> Where is there more info about making the file permissions happy when
> running the various hadoop services from cloudera user ?
> i am on CDH3u1
NameNode/DataNode run as hdfs while JobTracker/TaskTracker run as mapred
Brock
Re: Namenode in inconsistent state: how to reinitialize the storage directory
Posted by Stephen Boesch <ja...@gmail.com>.
I found a suggestion to reformat the namenode. In order to do so, I found
it necessary to set the dir to 777. AFter
$ sudo chmod 777 /var/lib/hadoop-0.20/cache/hadoop/dfs/name
$ ./hadoop namenode -format
(successful)
$ ./hadoop-daemon.sh --config $HADOOP/conf start namenode
(success!)
So.. this leads to a related question: *What gives with these permissions?
** *Maybe this is *cloudera *specific. I am logged in to cloudera
user,. but these directories have owners/groups with a mix of hadoop,
mapred, hbase, hdfs, etc. When i look in /etc/passwd and /etc/group there
is no clear indication that cloudera should be able to access files owned by
members of those groups.
Where is there more info about making the file permissions happy when
running the various hadoop services from cloudera user ?
i am on CDH3u1
thx
2011/10/25 Stephen Boesch <ja...@gmail.com>
>
> I am relatively new here and starting the CDH3u1 (on vmware). The
> nameserver is not coming up due to the following error:
>
>
> 2011-10-25 22:47:00,547 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.Storage:
> Cannot access storage directory /var/lib/hadoop-0.20/cache/hadoop/dfs/name
> 2011-10-25 22:47:00,549 ERROR
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem: FSNamesystem
> initialization failed.
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.InconsistentFSStateException:
> Directory /var/lib/hadoop-0.20/cache/hadoop/dfs/name is in an inconsistent
> state: storage directory does not exist or is not accessible.
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.recoverTransitionRead(FSImage.java:305)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.loadFSImage(FSDirectory.java:99)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.initialize(FSNamesystem.java:358)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:327)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:271)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:465)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1224)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1233)
>
> Now, I first noticed there was a "lock" file. So I sudo rm'ed it and
> retried. But same error. Then, not knowing what files are required (if any)
> to restart, I moved the entire dir and created a new empty one. Here are
> both the new and the 'sav" dirs
>
>
> cloudera@cloudera-demo:/usr/lib/hadoop/logs$ ll
> /var/lib/hadoop-0.20/cache/hadoop/dfs/name
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 hdfs hdfs 4096 2011-10-25 23:11 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 hdfs hadoop 4096 2011-10-25 23:11 ..
> cloudera@cloudera-demo:/usr/lib/hadoop/logs$ ll
> /var/lib/hadoop-0.20/cache/hadoop/dfs/name.sav
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x 2 hdfs hdfs 4096 2011-01-24 15:24 image
> drwxr-xr-x 2 hdfs hdfs 4096 2011-09-25 11:49 previous.checkpoint
> drwxr-xr-x 2 hdfs hdfs 4096 2011-10-25 21:01 current
> drwxr-xr-x 5 hdfs hdfs 4096 2011-10-25 23:02 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 hdfs hadoop 4096 2011-10-25 23:11 ..
>
>
> So then, any recommendations on how to proceed?
>
>
> thanks
>
>
>