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From: Harsh J <harsh@cloudera.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 03:41:08 +0530
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Subject: Re: HDFS Startup Failure due to dfs.namenode.rpc-address and Shared
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It is not quite from your post, so a Q: Do you intend to use HA or not?

Can you share your complete core-site.xml and hdfs-site.xml along with
a brief note on the deployment?

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Smith, Joshua D.
<Joshua.Smith@gd-ais.com> wrote:
> When I try to start HDFS I get an error in the log that says=85
>
>
>
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem: FSNamesystem
> initialization failed.
>
> java.io.IOException: Invalid configuration: a shared edits dir must not b=
e
> specified if HA is not enabled.
>
>
>
> I have the following properties configured as per page 12 of the CDH4 Hig=
h
> Availability Guide=85
>
> http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CDH4/lates=
t/PDF/CDH4-High-Availability-Guide.pdf
>
>
>
> <property>
>
> <name>dfs.namenode.rpc-address.mycluster.nn1</name>
>
> <value>nn.domain:8020</value>
>
> </property>
>
> <property>
>
> <name>dfs.namenode.rpc-address.mycluster.nn2</name>
>
> <value>snn.domain:8020</value>
>
> </property>
>
>
>
> When I look at the Hadoop source code that generates the error message I =
can
> see that it=92s failing because it=92s looking for dfs.namenode.rpc-addre=
ss
> without the suffix. I=92m assuming that the suffix gets lopped off at som=
e
> point before it gets pulled up and the property is checked for, so maybe =
I
> have the suffix wrong?
>
>
>
> In any case I can=92t get HDFS to start because it=92s looking for a prop=
erty
> that I don=92t have in the truncated for and it doesn=92t seem to be find=
ing the
> form of it with the suffix. Any assistance would be most appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh


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Harsh J