Re: Help - can't start namenode after disk full error

2011-10-03 Thread Shouguo Li
hi, Ryan i'm trying to recover from disk full error on the namenode as well. i can fire up namenode after printf \xff\xff\xff\xee\xff /var/name/current/edits but now it's stuck in safe mode verifying blocks for hours... is there a way to check progress on that? or is there a way to speed that

Help - can't start namenode after disk full error

2011-06-12 Thread Ryan LeCompte
Hey guys, Really trying to get our namenode back up and running after a full disk error last night. I've freed up a lot of space, however the NameNode still fails to startup: 2011-06-12 10:26:09,042 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem: Registered FSNamesystemStatusMBean

RE: Help - can't start namenode after disk full error

2011-06-12 Thread Zhong, Andy
Could you backup your edits file, try $ printf \xff\xff\xff\xee\xff edits, and start HDFS? It should work. - Andy -Original Message- From: Ryan LeCompte [mailto:lecom...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 9:29 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Help - can't start

RE: Help - can't start namenode after disk full error

2011-06-12 Thread Zhong, Andy
Only apply it to /dfs/name/current/edits file... -Original Message- From: Zhong, Andy [mailto:sheng.zh...@searshc.com] Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 9:43 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: RE: Help - can't start namenode after disk full error Could you backup your edits file

Re: Help - can't start namenode after disk full error

2011-06-12 Thread Ryan LeCompte
@hadoop.apache.org Subject: RE: Help - can't start namenode after disk full error Could you backup your edits file, try $ printf \xff\xff\xff\xee\xff edits, and start HDFS? It should work. - Andy -Original Message- From: Ryan LeCompte [mailto:lecom...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 9:29 AM

Re: Help - can't start namenode after disk full error

2011-06-12 Thread Zhong, Sheng
My pleasure! - Original Message - From: Ryan LeCompte [mailto:lecom...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 10:59 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Help - can't start namenode after disk full error That worked, thanks! On Sun, Jun 12, 2011

Re: can't start namenode

2010-05-19 Thread Ted Yu
We encountered a similar issue with hadoop-0.20.2+228 in QA: 2010-05-19 07:12:19,976 INFO org.apache.hadoop.metrics.jvm.JvmMetrics: Initializing JVM Metrics with processName=NameNode, sessionId=null 2010-05-19 07:12:19,978 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.metrics.NameNodeMetrics:

Re: can't start namenode

2010-03-04 Thread mike anderson
We have a single dfs.name.dir directory, in case it's useful the contents are: [m...@carr name]$ ls -l total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 mike mike 4096 Mar 4 11:18 current drwxrwxr-x 2 mike mike 4096 Oct 8 16:38 image On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Todd Lipcon t...@cloudera.com wrote: Hi Mike, Was

Re: can't start namenode

2010-03-04 Thread Todd Lipcon
Hi Mike, Since you removed the edits, you restored to an earlier version of the namesystem. Thus, any files that were deleted since the last checkpoint will have come back. But, the blocks will have been removed from the datanodes. So, the NN is complaining since there are some files that have

Re: can't start namenode

2010-03-04 Thread mike anderson
Todd, That did the trick. Thanks to everyone for the quick responses and effective suggestions. -Mike On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Todd Lipcon t...@cloudera.com wrote: Hi Mike, Since you removed the edits, you restored to an earlier version of the namesystem. Thus, any files that were