From the jira: (for users similarly affected):
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Andre,
as a temporary hack, you can just comment out the FSImage.java:749 and
your restart should work, since these are last entries read from the
image file.
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Raghu.
Raghu Angadi wrote:
André Martin wrote:
Hi Raghu,
done: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2873
Subsequent tries did not succeed - so it looks like I need to
re-format the cluster :-(
Please back up the log files and name node image files if you can before
re-format.
Raghu.
