https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/FAILED-to-start-HDFS-Namenode/m-p/52970#M52130 <P>Namenode memory could sometimes be the problem, the Cloudera Quickstart set namenode memory to 50MB, I updated it to 1GB and have the issue resolved. (They recommend 4GB though).</P> Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:00:54 GMT mokona88 2017-03-31T00:00:54Z