Hello, I'm just starting out with Hadoop. As generally advised, I configured namenode to a directory other than /tmp. When I do this, and try start-all.sh, I get the exception below. Formatting namenode does not help. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance. Regards, Vinutha 2012-10-12 12:40:23,530 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem: FSNamesystem initialization failed. java.io.IOException: NameNode is not formatted. at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.recoverTransitionRead(FSImage.java:330) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.loadFSImage(FSDirectory.java:100) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.initialize(FSNamesystem.java:388) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:362) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:276) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:496) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1279) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1288) 2012-10-12 12:40:23,531 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode: java.io.IOException: NameNode is not formatted. at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.recoverTransitionRead(FSImage.java:330) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.loadFSImage(FSDirectory.java:100) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.initialize(FSNamesystem.java:388) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:362) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:276) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:496) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1279) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1288)
