/tmp/hadoop-oracle/dfs/name is in an inconsistent state

["Daniel,Wu" <ha...@163.com>]

When I started hadoop, the namenode failed to startup because of the following error. The strange thing is that it says/tmp/hadoop-oracle/dfs/name isinconsistent, but I don't think I have configured it as /tmp/hadoop-oracle/dfs/name. Where should I check for the related configuration?
  2011-07-28 21:07:35,383 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode: org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.InconsistentFSStateException: Directory /tmp/hadoop-oracle/dfs/name is in an inconsistent state: storage directory does not exist or is not accessible.

Re: /tmp/hadoop-oracle/dfs/name is in an inconsistent state

[Uma Maheswara Rao G 72686 <ma...@huawei.com>]

Hi,

Before starting, you need to format the namenode.
./hdfs namenode -format

then this directories will be created.

respective configuration is 'dfs.namenode.name.dir'

default configurations will exist in hdfs-default.xml.
If you want to configure your own directory path, you can add the above property in hdfs-site.xml file.

Regards,
Uma Mahesh
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel,Wu" <ha...@163.com>
Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:51 pm
Subject: /tmp/hadoop-oracle/dfs/name is in an inconsistent state
To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org

> When I started hadoop, the namenode failed to startup because of 
> the following error. The strange thing is that it says/tmp/hadoop-
> oracle/dfs/name isinconsistent, but I don't think I have 
> configured it as /tmp/hadoop-oracle/dfs/name. Where should I check 
> for the related configuration?
>  2011-07-28 21:07:35,383 ERROR 
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode: org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.InconsistentFSStateException: Directory /tmp/hadoop-oracle/dfs/name is in an inconsistent state: storage directory does not exist or is not accessible.
> 
>