Hi, I am using ambari 2.7 blueprint to install HDP3.0. After installing, the active namenode cannot start due to error:
2018-07-30 04:41:03,839 WARN namenode.FSNamesystem (FSNamesystem.java:loadFromDisk(716)) - Encountered exception loading fsimage java.io.IOException: NameNode is not formatted. at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.recoverTransitionRead(FSImage.java:237) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.loadFSImage(FSNamesystem.java:1086) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.loadFromDisk(FSNamesystem.java:714) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.loadNamesystem(NameNode.java:632) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:694) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:937) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:910) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1643) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1710) By running "sudo -u hdfs hdfs namenode -format" mentioned in https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Cloudera-Manager-Installation/Got-error-java-io-IOException-NameNode-is-not-formatted-but/td-p/56814, I am able to start namenode. However, for HDP installation automation, I should not have run this command manually. Any idea why ambari failed to format namenode in the first place? Thanks.