It might be that you need to clean up both the directories on the namenode as 
well as the datanodes especially if you triggered a re-format of HDFS ( caused 
by deleting "/var/run/hadoop/hdfs/namenode-formatted" on the NN ).

@Siddharth, can you confirm the above.

thanks
-- Hitesh
 
On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:30 AM, Siddharth Wagle wrote:

> Hi Aaron,
> 
> The directories in HDFS that you noticed on first installation are all 
> created after Namenode is started by Ambari.
> Every restart of NN, Ambari agent code will check for the directories and 
> create them if not already present.
> 
> Could you provide the error message that you are getting in the web UI ?
> 
> Also, make sure to check Namenode logs (/var/log/hadoop/hdfs/*-namenode.log). 
> There is a possibility that the Namenode comes up and is shutdown because of 
> some error. 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Sid
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Aaron Zimmerman 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Siddharth,
>   
> I tried it and the namenode came back (I had to delete the local data 
> directories as well).
> 
> But the other services did not work.  Specifically it was dying on oozie 
> server install, appears to be trying to create hdfs directories without 
> success.  Does the /var/run directory serve as markers for initialization?  
> If so, perhaps deleting the subdir of each service will reinitialize all 
> components? 
> 
> There is still nothing in hdfs.  On my first installation, after installing 
> software on the cluster nodes, the file system had a bunch of stuff in it.  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Aaron Zimmerman
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Siddharth Wagle <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
> 
> Could you check if the following stub file exists: 
> /var/run/hadoop/hdfs/namenode-formatted ?
> 
> A restart of NN through Ambari should create all the required directories for 
> you.
> Go ahead and delete the stub if it exists and restart the NN through Ambari 
> web UI.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Sid
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Aaron Zimmerman 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had to reformat the namenode under an ambari managed cluster, and HDFS came 
> back online no problem, but the various dependent services fail (seemingly 
> because of missing directories, such as /user/... and /etc, and /tmp.  Is 
> there a way to get ambari to recreate these various directories, permissions, 
> etc?  
> 
> If not, is there a guide somewhere that could help me recreate it manually?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Aaron Zimmerman
> 
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