Hi Everyone,

I am starting my hadoop cluster manually from Java which works fine until some time. When secondary NameNode tries to do merge it gives me the following exception:

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13/10/03 10:29:38 ERROR namenode.SecondaryNameNode: Throwable Exception in doCheckpoint: 13/10/03 10:29:38 ERROR namenode.SecondaryNameNode: java.lang.AssertionError: Negative layout version is expected. at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.loadFSImage(FSImage.java:857) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode$CheckpointStorage.doMerge(SecondaryNameNode.java:780) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode$CheckpointStorage.access$600(SecondaryNameNode.java:680) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.doMerge(SecondaryNameNode.java:557) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.doCheckpoint(SecondaryNameNode.java:521) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.doWork(SecondaryNameNode.java:396) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.run(SecondaryNameNode.java:360)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)

java.lang.AssertionError: Negative layout version is expected.
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.loadFSImage(FSImage.java:857) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode$CheckpointStorage.doMerge(SecondaryNameNode.java:780) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode$CheckpointStorage.access$600(SecondaryNameNode.java:680) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.doMerge(SecondaryNameNode.java:557) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.doCheckpoint(SecondaryNameNode.java:521) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.doWork(SecondaryNameNode.java:396) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode.run(SecondaryNameNode.java:360)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)
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What causes this exception to occur?
Any help would be appreciated!

Kind Regards,

Furkan Bicak.

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