Hi,   I have been using the cloudera quickstart vm for 3 months and have started receiving this error of late when I try to try to run any command on hdfs(hadoop fs -ls / for example). Has anyone come across this before:   **Note :   I have tried restarting the namenode, checking for any errors in the hosts file, restarting the machine--none of this has worked :    18/02/12 12:43:13 WARN ipc.Client: Failed to connect to server: quickstart.cloudera/127.0.0.1:8020: try once and fail. java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:739) at org.apache.hadoop.net.SocketIOWithTimeout.connect(SocketIOWithTimeout.java:206) at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.connect(NetUtils.java:530) at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.connect(NetUtils.java:494) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client$Connection.setupConnection(Client.java:648) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client$Connection.setupIOstreams(Client.java:744) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client$Connection.access$3000(Client.java:396) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.getConnection(Client.java:1555) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1478) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1439) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Invoker.invoke(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:230) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy16.getFileInfo(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.getFileInfo(ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.java:771) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invokeMethod(RetryInvocationHandler.java:260) at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:104) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy17.getFileInfo(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.getFileInfo(DFSClient.java:2126) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$20.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:1262) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$20.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:1258) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystemLinkResolver.resolve(FileSystemLinkResolver.java:81) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.getFileStatus(DistributedFileSystem.java:1258) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Globber.getFileStatus(Globber.java:64) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Globber.doGlob(Globber.java:272) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Globber.glob(Globber.java:151) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.globStatus(FileSystem.java:1715) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.PathData.expandAsGlob(PathData.java:326) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.expandArgument(Command.java:235) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.expandArguments(Command.java:218) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.FsCommand.processRawArguments(FsCommand.java:102) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Command.run(Command.java:165) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FsShell.run(FsShell.java:315) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:84) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FsShell.main(FsShell.java:372) ls: Call From quickstart.cloudera/127.0.0.1 to quickstart.cloudera:8020 failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused; For more details see: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ConnectionRefused   Thanks for the Help   Nithin   ... View more