Colin Patrick McCabe created HDFS-4957: ------------------------------------------
Summary: NameNode failover should not fail because a DNS entry for a quorum node cannot be resolved Key: HDFS-4957 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4957 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: qjm Affects Versions: 2.2.0 Reporter: Colin Patrick McCabe When a StandbyNameNode is becoming active, we should not bail out because a DNS entry for a quorum node cannot be resolved. Currently it does fail in this scenario, with a message like this: {code} 2013-07-03 21:28:40,576 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem: Starting services required for active state 2013-07-03 21:28:40,579 FATAL org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode: Error encountered requiring NN shutdown. Shutting down immediately. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unable to construct journal, qjournal://hadoop-mm:8485;hadoop-nn-0:8485;hadoop-nn-1:8485/hadoop at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.createJournal(FSEditLog.java:1254) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.initJournals(FSEditLog.java:226) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.initJournalsForWrite(FSEditLog.java:193) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.startActiveServices(FSNamesystem.java:722) <etc> {code} reported by Matt Bookman -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira