I am using Cloudera CDH 4, the latest version of it. I didnt remove anything from the shell, as I can recall that issue happened when I added some feature from the Cloudera Manager. Any thought?
Best Regards, Joshua Tu From: bharathvissapragada1...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:41:19 +0530 Subject: Re: NN stopped and cannot recover with error "There appears to be a gap in the edit log" To: user@hadoop.apache.org What is your hadoop version? Did you manually delete any files from the nn edits dir? Do you see this gap in the file listing of edits directory too? Ideally all the txids appear consecutive when you do a file listing in that dir. On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Joshua Tu <tujunxi...@live.com> wrote: Hi there, I deployed a single node for testing, today the NN stopped and cannot start it with eror: There appears to be a gap in the edit log. 2013-11-14 15:00:01,431 INFO org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsSystemImpl: NameNode metrics system shutdown complete. 2013-11-14 15:00:01,432 FATAL org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode: Exception in namenode join java.io.IOException: There appears to be a gap in the edit log. We expected txid 8364, but got txid 27381. at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.MetaRecoveryContext.editLogLoaderPrompt(MetaRecoveryContext.java:94) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLogLoader.loadEditRecords(FSEditLogLoader.java:158) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLogLoader.loadFSEdits(FSEditLogLoader.java:92) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.loadEdits(FSImage.java:744) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.loadFSImage(FSImage.java:660) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.doUpgrade(FSImage.java:349) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.recoverTransitionRead(FSImage.java:261) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.loadFSImage(FSNamesystem.java:639) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.loadFromDisk(FSNamesystem.java:476) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.loadNamesystem(NameNode.java:403) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:437) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.(NameNode.java:613) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.(NameNode.java:598) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1169) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1233) 2013-11-14 15:00:01,445 INFO org.apache.hadoop.util.ExitUtil: Exiting with status 1 2013-11-14 15:00:01,448 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG: /************************************************************ SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down NameNode at ubcdh/10.0.0.4 ************************************************************/ Since there is only one node so restore editlogs is not available, and hadoop namenode -recover also not fit for this situation. How can I fix this issue? JOSHUA TU JUNXIONGBest regards