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.

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