Try checking the logs in the logs folder for the datanode.It might give some lead. Maybe there is a mismatch between the namespace iDs in the system and user itself while starting the datanode.
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Ben Cuthbert <bencuthb...@ymail.com>wrote: > All > > We have a master in one region and we are trying to start a slave datanode > in another region. When executing the scripts it looks to login to the > remote host, but > never starts the datanode. When executing hbase tho it does work. Is there > a timeout or something with hadoop?