https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/FAILED-to-start-HDFS-Namenode/m-p/49589#M52127 <P>I seem to be having the same problem but i am not able to change the file permissions. &nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><PRE>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 32768 Jan 18 04:35 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 32768 Jan 16 22:53 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 321 Jan 16 22:53 fsimage_0000000000000000000 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 62 Jan 16 22:53 fsimage_0000000000000000000.md5 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jan 16 22:53 seen_txid -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 18 04:35 test -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 203 Jan 16 22:53 VERSION</PRE><PRE>chown: changing ownership of ‘fsimage_0000000000000000000’: Operation not permitted chown: changing ownership of ‘fsimage_0000000000000000000.md5’: Operation not permitted chown: changing ownership of ‘seen_txid’: Operation not permitted chown: changing ownership of ‘test’: Operation not permitted chown: changing ownership of ‘VERSION’: Operation not permitted [root@hd-master-1 current]#</PRE><P>note that I am root trying this. &nbsp;This is a default download of cloudera manager 5.9.1 install with the basic hadoop package running on centos. &nbsp;no luck.</P> Wed, 18 Jan 2017 04:47:51 GMT stlzoom 2017-01-18T04:47:51Z