Hi ! I have a lab system running ok with alpha1 and I wanted to switch to alpha2. Unfortunately I run into issue trying to bring up HDFS, even after reformatting it. I keep getting this type of error in the HDFS daemon logs: 2017-02-22 15:05:45,577 ERROR namenode.NameNode (NameNode.java:main(1709)) - Failed to start namenode. java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.sink.timeline.HadoopTimelineMetricsSink.init(Lorg/apache/commons/configuration2/SubsetConfiguration;)V at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsConfig.getPlugin(MetricsConfig.java:208) at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsSystemImpl.newSink(MetricsSystemImpl.java:531) at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsSystemImpl.configureSinks(MetricsSystemImpl.java:503) at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsSystemImpl.configure(MetricsSystemImpl.java:479) at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsSystemImpl.start(MetricsSystemImpl.java:188) at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsSystemImpl.init(MetricsSystemImpl.java:163) at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.DefaultMetricsSystem.init(DefaultMetricsSystem.java:62) at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.DefaultMetricsSystem.initialize(DefaultMetricsSystem.java:58) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1635) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1704) 2017-02-22 15:05:45,578 INFO util.ExitUtil (ExitUtil.java:terminate(124)) - Exiting with status 1
Wondering if you have seen similar errors or how to fix it. I made sure all my settings point to alpha2 install Have a nice day, Dani "The more I learn, the less I know"