https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Unable-to-start-Namenode-New-Installation/m-p/214151#M176066 <P>starting namenode, logging to /var/log/hadoop/hadoop/hadoop-hadoop-namenode-&lt;fqdn&gt;.out</P><P>/usr/hdp/2.6.5.0-292/hadoop/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh: line 171: /var/run/hadoop/hadoop/hadoop-hadoop-namenode.pid: No such file or directory</P><P>SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".</P><P>SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation</P><P>SLF4J: See <A href="http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder" target="_blank">http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder</A> for further details.</P><P>[hadoop@omiprihdp02ap ~]$</P> Tue, 23 Oct 2018 12:31:50 GMT sherrine 2018-10-23T12:31:50Z