Can anyone offer me some insight. It may have been due to me trying to run the start-all.sh script instead of starting the services. Not sure.
Thanks Sean /************************************************************ STARTUP_MSG: Starting NameNode STARTUP_MSG: host = ubuntu-mogile-1/127.0.1.1 STARTUP_MSG: args = [] STARTUP_MSG: version = 0.20.2-cdh3u1 STARTUP_MSG: build = file:///tmp/nightly_2011-07-18_07-57-52_3/hadoop-0.20-0.20.2+923.97-1~lucid -r bdafb1dbffd0d5f2fbc6ee022e1c8df6500fd638; compiled by 'root' on Mon Jul 18 09:40:01 PDT 2011 ************************************************************/ 2011-08-25 17:16:48,653 INFO org.apache.hadoop.metrics.jvm.JvmMetrics: Initializing JVM Metrics with processName=NameNode, sessionId=null 2011-08-25 17:16:48,655 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.metrics.NameNodeMetrics: Initializing NameNodeMeterics using context object:org.apache.hadoop.metrics.spi.NoEmitMetricsContext 2011-08-25 17:16:48,664 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.util.GSet: VM type = 64-bit 2011-08-25 17:16:48,664 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.util.GSet: 2% max memory = 17.77875 MB 2011-08-25 17:16:48,665 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.util.GSet: capacity = 2^21 = 2097152 entries 2011-08-25 17:16:48,665 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.util.GSet: recommended=2097152, actual=2097152 2011-08-25 17:16:48,676 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem: FSNamesystem initialization failed. java.io.IOException: Expecting a line not the end of stream at org.apache.hadoop.fs.DF.parseExecResult(DF.java:117) at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.runCommand(Shell.java:237) at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.run(Shell.java:182) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.DF.getFilesystem(DF.java:63) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeResourceChecker.addDirsToCheck(NameNodeResourceChecker.java:87) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeResourceChecker.<init>(NameNodeResourceChecker.java:71) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.initialize(FSNamesystem.java:348) 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) 2011-08-25 17:16:48,678 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.close(FSNamesystem.java:560) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:330) 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) 2011-08-25 17:16:48,678 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG: /************************************************************ SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down NameNode at ubuntu-mogile-1/127.0.1.1 ************************************************************/ 20$ sudo ls -lR .: total 4 drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 2011-08-25 17:15 cache ./cache: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 hdfs hdfs 4096 2011-08-25 17:15 hdfs drwxr-xr-x 3 mapred mapred 4096 2011-08-25 17:15 mapred ./cache/hdfs: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 hdfs hdfs 4096 2011-08-25 17:15 dfs ./cache/hdfs/dfs: total 4 drwx------ 2 hdfs hdfs 4096 2011-08-25 17:15 data ./cache/hdfs/dfs/data: total 0 ./cache/mapred: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 mapred mapred 4096 2011-08-25 17:15 mapred ./cache/mapred/mapred: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mapred mapred 4096 2011-08-25 17:16 local ./cache/mapred/mapred/local: total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 mapred mapred 4096 2011-08-25 17:16 taskTracker drwxr-xr-x 2 mapred mapred 4096 2011-08-25 17:16 toBeDeleted drwxr-xr-x 2 mapred mapred 4096 2011-08-25 17:16 tt_log_tmp drwx------ 2 mapred mapred 4096 2011-08-25 17:16 ttprivate ./cache/mapred/mapred/local/taskTracker: total 0 ./cache/mapred/mapred/local/toBeDeleted: total 0 ./cache/mapred/mapred/local/tt_log_tmp: total 0 ./cache/mapred/mapred/local/ttprivate: total 0