Does the namenode log contain any entries for the datanode you are trying to start?
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Cuthbert [mailto:bencuthb...@ymail.com] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 10:35 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: start hadoop slave over WAN Strange thing is the datanode in the remote location has a log zero bytes. So nothing there. Its strange it is like the master does and ssh, login, and then attempts to start it but nothing. Maybe there is a timeout? On 30 Mar 2012, at 18:22, kasi subrahmanyam wrote: > 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?