Namenode daemon not starting properly

Question

When I issue the stop-dfs.sh commmand I get

Stopping namenodes on [localhost]
localhost: no namenode to stop
localhost: stopping datanode
Stopping secondary namenodes [0.0.0.0]
0.0.0.0: stopping secondarynamenode

In the namenode log, I found these errors:

WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.Storage: Storage directory /tmp/hadoop/dfs/name does not exist
 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem: Encountered exception loading fsimage
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.InconsistentFSStateException: Directory /tmp/hadoop/dfs/name is in an inconsistent state: storage directory does not exist or is not accessible.
    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.recoverStorageDirs(FSImage.java:327)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.recoverTransitionRead(FSImage.java:215)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.loadFSImage(FSNamesystem.java:975)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.loadFromDisk(FSNamesystem.java:681)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.loadNamesystem(NameNode.java:585)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:645)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:812)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:796)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1493)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1559)

How to solve this?

Answer 1

Add this in your hdfs-site.xml

<property>
        <name>dfs.namenode.name.dir</name>
        <value>file:///home/"your-user-name"/hadoop</value> 
    </property>
    <property>
        <name>dfs.datanode.data.dir</name>
        <value>file:///home/"your-user-name"/datanode</value>   
    </property>

After this format your namenode by hdfs namenode -format command.

This should solve your problem