Hi Dustine, Are you installing on a cluster that was already installed via Ambari? If yes, then remove this directory in /var/run/hadoop/hdfs/formatted and restart namenode from the the UI and it should work.
If not then its a bug and please create jira nad attach logs for Namenode/amabari agent and server. thanks mahadev On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Dustine Rene Bernasor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was installing Ambari 1.2.1. When I reach step 9, after the services are > installed, > NameNode cannot be started. > > The ff. exception appeared in the log > > 2013-03-14 10:58:00,426 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:411) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:379) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:287) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:548) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1431) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1440) > 2013-03-14 10:58:00,427 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:411) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:379) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:287) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:548) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1431) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1440) > > 2013-03-14 10:58:00,428 INFO > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG: > /************************************************************ > SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down NameNode at > Crawler51.localdomain.com/192.168.3.51 > ************************************************************/ > > Thanks. > > Dustine > >
