https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/quickstart-VM-connection-issues/m-p/64549#M5161 <P>Found solution:</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/7455/namenode-can-not-be-started.html" target="_blank">https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/7455/namenode-can-not-be-started.html</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Found this error in the namenode logs : /var/logs/hadoop/, the error was&nbsp;<SPAN>Failed to load image from FSImageFile(file=/var/lib/</SPAN><SPAN>hadoop-hdfs/cache/hdfs/dfs/</SPAN><SPAN>name/current/fsimage_****</SPAN><SPAN>, cpktTxId=0000000000000425183)</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Went to the mentioned location and deleted the FS image which was 0 Bytes, see above link. Restarted the namenode and datanodes and everythings works as expected.</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN></P> Mon, 12 Feb 2018 22:29:49 GMT NithinHdpBegin 2018-02-12T22:29:49Z