Eric and Josh thanks for all your feedback. We ended up *loosing all our accumulo data* because I had to reformat hadoop. Here is in a nutshell what I did:
1. Stop accumulo 2. Stop hadoop 3. On hadoop master and all datanodes, from dfs.data.dir (hdfs-site.xml) remove everything under the data folder 4. On hadoop master, from dfs.name.dir (hdfs-site.xml) remove everything under the name folder 5. As hadoop user, execute.../hadoop/bin/hadoop namenode -format 6. As hadoop user, execute.../hadoop/bin/start-all.sh ==> should populate data/ and name/ dirs that was erased in steps 3, 4. 7. Initialized Accumulo - as accumulo user, ../accumulo/bin/accumulo init (I created a new instance) 8. Start accumulo I was wondering if anyone had suggestions or thoughts on how I could have solved the original issue of accumulo waiting initialization without loosing my accumulo data? Is it possible to do so?
