Re: Hadoop 0.17.1 => EOFException reading FSEdits file, what causes this? how to prevent?

[Aaron Kimball <aa...@cloudera.com>]

Does the file exist or maybe was it deleted? Also, are the permissions on
that directory set correctly, or could they have been changed out from under
you by accident?

- Aaron

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Joe Montanez <jm...@veoh.com> wrote:

> Hi:
>
>
>
> I'm using Hadoop 0.17.1 and I'm encountering EOFException reading the
> FSEdits file.  I don't have a clear understanding what is causing this
> and how to prevent this.  Has anyone seen this and can advise?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> 2009-01-12 22:51:45,573 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode:
> java.io.EOFException
>
>        at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(DataInputStream.java:180)
>
>        at org.apache.hadoop.io.UTF8.readFields(UTF8.java:106)
>
>        at
> org.apache.hadoop.io.ArrayWritable.readFields(ArrayWritable.java:90)
>
>        at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSEditLog.loadFSEdits(FSEditLog.java:599)
>
>        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSImage.loadFSEdits(FSImage.java:766)
>
>        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSImage.loadFSImage(FSImage.java:640)
>
>        at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSImage.recoverTransitionRead(FSImage.java:223)
>
>        at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSDirectory.loadFSImage(FSDirectory.java:80)
>
>        at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.initialize(FSNamesystem.java:274)
>
>        at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:255)
>
>        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:133)
>
>        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:178)
>
>        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:164)
>
>        at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:848)
>
>        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:857)
>
>
>
> 2009-01-12 22:51:45,574 INFO org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode:
> SHUTDOWN_MSG:
>
>
>
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