Here's an error I've never seen before. I rebooted my machine sometime last
week, so obviously when I tried to run a hadoop job this morning, the first
thing I was quickly reminded of was that the pseudo-distributed cluster wasn't
running. I started it up only to watch the job tracker appear in the browser
briefly and then go away (typical error complaining that the port was closed,
as if the jobtracker is gone). The namenode, interestingly, never came up
during this time. I tried stopping and starting "all" a few times but to no
avail.
I inspected the logs and saw this:
java.io.IOException: Missing directory /tmp/hadoop-keithw/dfs/name
Sure enough, it isn't there. I'm not familiar with this directory, so I can't
say whether it was ever there before, but presumably it was.
Now, I assume I could get around this by formatting a new namenode, but then I
would have to copy my data back into HDFS from scratch.
So, two questions:
(1) Any idea what the heck is going on here, how this happened, what it means?
(2) Is there any way to recover without starting over from scratch?
Thanks.
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Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com keithwiley.com music.keithwiley.com
"And what if we picked the wrong religion? Every week, we're just making God
madder and madder!"
-- Homer Simpson
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