question Namenode is not starting, connection error in Support Questions

question Namenode is not starting, connection error in Support Questions https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Namenode-is-not-starting-connection-error/m-p/299480#M219698 <DIV>Hi Team, We have a 2 node cluster setup of a Namenode and a Datanode. The name node is refusing to start and is failing because of following error. Retrying after 10 seconds. Reason: Execution of '/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-hdfs-namenode/bin/hdfs dfsadmin -fs hdfs://inqchdpmn1.XXX.com:8020 -safemode get | grep 'Safe mode is OFF'' returned 1. safemode: Call From inqchdpmn1.XXX.com/10.10.31.71 to inqchdpmn1.XXX.com:8020 failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused; For more details see: <A href="http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ConnectionRefused" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ConnectionRefused</A> safemode: Call From inqchdpmn1.XXX.com/10.10.31.71 to inqchdpmn1.XXX.com:8020 failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused; For more details see: <A href="http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ConnectionRefused" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ConnectionRefused</A> 2020-07-10 11:08:55,721 - bash-4.2$ sudo netstat -anp | grep 8020doesn't give any o/p. We are stuck for a while now, please help.TIA.</DIV> Fri, 10 Jul 2020 06:07:05 GMT ARVINDR 2020-07-10T06:07:05Z